Over the summer Vectrix went into bankruptcy announcing that their assets would be purchased by "New Vectrix". Vectrix made the first commercial highway speed electric motorcycle and delivered their first motorcycles in 2007. However they never had enough sales to keep the company going, ran out of money, and went into bankruptcy. It's now known that GP Batteries has bought New Vectrix and the Vectrix assets apparently with the intent to restart the company.… Continue

Watch as John Wayland's electric car, the White Zombie leaves high powered gas cars in the dust as Portland makes a home for the National Electric Drag Racing Association. John claims that his car is the world's fastest accelerating street legal electric car. See this 1972 Datsun time and time again take advantage of the electric motor's full torque in the first instant and continue to break world records.

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Global is deepening its roots in Indiana. The City electric car already uses batteries made by local company Ener1, which also owns 31 percent of Think Global. When the Think starts up production again (it was shut down while the company went through bankruptcy and then restructured) the cars are scheduled to be built at new minority shareholder Valmet Automotive's factory in Uusikaupunki, Finland. Think has 2,300 outstanding orders for the City and Valmet plans on building twice that many City… Continue

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released their yearly World Energy Outlook report for 2009. This report is used by governments and corporations worldwide for planning energy policies and purchases. This years report is very sobering on several levels.

The primary purpose of the report is to show the state of the oil, natural gas and coal industries and give recommendations. This years report makes it clear t… Continue

The MetroBuddy which is slated for launch in Norway in January 2010 will be delivered with a 10 year or 100.000 KM warranty on the batterypack. The EV comes with the Buddy Advanced Energy System (BAES).

BAES builds upon Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) Batteries which have been proven by a long trac… Continue

In the marked for some cheap batteries for your Toyota Prius or Tesla Roadster? This may be your lucky day. This Tesla-Prius encounter which just happened in Denmark may be the first of it's kind. It looks dramatic but no one got hurt (if you could believe it)

The spectacular chrash happened i… Continue