Mayor Bloomberg accepts a fleet of Mini E’s from BMW Group Yesterday, the BMW Group presented a fleet of 10 zero-emission, battery-powered MINI E vehicles to NYC. Eight of them will be used in NYC’s Street Condition Observation Unit, known as SCOUT, the remaining two have been designated for the NYC Parks Department for special [...]

Nissan is committed to being a global leader in zero-emission vehicles. So, when the U.S. Department of Energy announced a grant for the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure ever undertaken, Nissan jumped on it. Supporting the lead grant applicant, Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), the company said they would make available [...]

When Tata Motors went about designing their super cheap Nano a couple of years ago they focused on a low cost car, low cost parts and low cost production. Since it is produced in India, low cost labor was a given. To keep the weight low, they lightened the engine to two cylinders vs. three [...]

I’m not really a truck kinda’ gal, but I couldn’t resist a day driving around Manhattan in Ford’s 2010 Transit Connect, a truck for small-business owners that is convenient for city driving. The Ford Transit Connect is tall but small-ish for a truck; it has 135.3 cubic feet of cargo space and can haul up [...]

“Our engineers have been working on lithium ion battery packs for 17 years,” said Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning and Strategy for Nissan North America. But EVs aren’t new to Nissan. The company introduced its first electric car – the Altra EV – in 1998 followed by the Hypermini followed in 2000. We were [...]