The car manufacturing company ‘Tata’, based in New Delhi, India is planning to release an electric version of their Indica hatchback, as soon as next year. In 2010 the car is going to be released on general sale in Norway first, then in India, following to the U.S. hopefully within just one more year.

The car was showcased at Wednesday’s industry show in Europe, where it received as much praise and publicity as their previous model of gas powered car, the Nano, which is also the world’s cheapest brand new car. Other manufacturers such as GM, owners of Cadillac, are now begginning to ‘pull up their pants’, and start serious work on their electric vehicles, to try and ensure that they do not lose the race to release the first plug-in car.

It is not just GM that are begginning to pick up the pace on the release of their electric vehicles. Nissan and Mitsubishi are also trying their absolute hardest to release their vehicles sooner rather than later, although the technology, whilst it is relatively well known and advertised, is still in early stages. 

It looks like India will be the clear winners in this battle to beat the competitors to the market.

The planning team at Chevrolet do not seem to think it is a good idea for their brand new and slightly experimental electric car to be placed in public view as of yet. However, there is always some ’sneaky devil’, who manages to snap a shot of these things. The new car looks tastefully designed, but unfortunately that is just about all we know at the moment.

GM, owners of Chevy, are still trying to be the first American manufacturer to market a plug in hybrid electric car. This seems to be the closest step so far. The Volt seems to be just an updated version of their original hybrid of the same name, but with massive changes to the exterior design. The car is thought to feature in the latest blockbuster ‘Transformers 2, Revenge of the Fallen’. This is looking to be more fact than fiction as the car was ’snapped’ leaving the studio parking lot.

Sorry the title sounds bad, but whoa! After plans were revealed recently for Japan to design and build a plug-in electric car charger, the EV world was rejoicing! Now Japan is planning to insert recharging stations all over the country, begginning with Tokyo, and then moving to the other cities and islands across Japan.

The news came as quite a shock to the so called ‘greener-nations’ like the U.K. and the U.S. They have been fighting so hard to beat each other to the punch, in the sense of designing and building the perfect car. As Japan has already built it, marketed, and made a tidy profit on the selling of these electric cars, the recharging stations are the logical next step. These will mean that drivers around Japan could potentially drive anywhere on the islands without fear of their cars running low on battery power. They want stations to be close together, enough to make it easy for any drivers to recharge, anytime. It is hoped that, within the next few decades, these recharging stations will completely replace the current gas filling stations.

It has long been known that the three giants in the motoring have been going through battles to win the electric car race. These manufacturers include General Motors, the company behind Cadillac, Chrysler and Ford.

Given this fact, it was Peterborough-based Lightning car company that built the petrol powered super-car that has recently been redesigned as an electric car. The car costs an astonishing $120,000!

This is thought to be the best electric car ever made, and has already hit the American market, so it is abailable to buy now, if you have the wallet for it. The Lightning GTS has definitely beaten the big three to the punch, but how are they going to react? I can see that it is not going to come as good news that they have lost the race to a small company.

The plans currently underway at General Motors looks to be geared slightly toward a STS type Sedan that will be powered by a heavier battery that may last longer without recharging than some of it’s competitors.

The battery power on the Lightning GTS lasts for approximately 125 miles of normal city driving up to around 60mph. This is one of the longest lasting battery lives of any other electric car. GM, Ford and Chrysler are still poised, waiting for their perfect moment to unleash an electric super car that is cheaper, faster and has a more powerful battery. It does look like GM will be the next runner-up in the electric car race.

The new car from the Lotus production line in England is the Tesla Roadster. It is the most stylish hybrid ever made and is thought to only cost around 1 cent per mile to run, and boasts the best fuel economy of any current hybrid car.

This is the car to end our fuel crises. You can run this car on a very low income, BUT, it does cost around $100,000 to buy. It is deffinitely worth it, as you can run the car for a long time, without recharging. The manufacturers have promised that the car will run for up to 250 miles from only recharging the battery for three hours! The battery should be recycled after 100,000 miles.

Performance wise this car can accelerate faster than any electric car and has a top speed of around 130mph. This car really can beat any other electric into the ground.

Can you imagine driving in your “All Electric Vehicle”?

Passing a gas station, you watch the people filling their cars and paying large amounts of money to the attendant.

You smile to yourself, knowing that you have broken your addiction to oil.

Inside your electric car you have a mechanism, in the place of an IC engine, producing large amounts of electricity.

Your car requires, no fuels, no recharging of electricity, and no batteries.

It is just a mechanism that generates electricity, more than you’ll ever need,for your car, no matter how fast, or how far it travels.
In fact it will produces extra electricity that you can sell.

You say, “that’s impossible”. Well, thats what Mark Goldes, CEO of Magnetic Power Incorporated (MPI) says will happen, and soon.

In his current and up-to-date Executive Summary titled:     “Energy Independence and Powerful Economic Stimulus are on the Horizon”

MPI is developing breakthrough magnetic energy technologies. Based upon proprietary discoveries in MPI’s labs, generators are being designed that operate continuously, without fuel, extracting electricity by converting an abundant, renewable, extremely dense, energy source that has never before been commercialized. The process will create no pollution. Variations will provide a permanent power supply that can eventually replace the need for batteries of all sizes.

Conventional power costs are rising. The cost of electricity from these technologies promises to be less than any competing form of power generation.

This technology is expected to give electric cars unlimited range, as well as turn them into power plants. When appropriately parked, up to 150 kW can, without the need for any wire connection, be sold to co-operating local electric utilities. (To read the rest of the article, go to: http://magneticpowerinc.com

I contacted Mark Goldes and he consented to an interview after the 11 of August.  He will then bring me up to date on the company’s progress.

You can read more about this amazing and revolutionary discovery, on the internet. Go to http://magneticpowerinc.com and listen to Mark Goldes exciting and intriguing, radio interview.

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EnerDel, a company currently working on building superb lithium batteries has resolved to expand their production facilities for a new project.

They plan on building the first Norwegian completely electric powered car. This vehicle will run on a 600 pound lithium ion battery.

These large batteries will power the “Think Car”, a vehicle ready to accommodate two people.

The expansion of their product plants will provide approximately 250 working positions for the surrounding neighborhood.

This is an important step forward for electric cars. Creating batteries that will last for long periods of time without having to charge. This is the future of electric cars and they will provide low cost traveling capabilities gas vehicles could never match. The ideas are out there, now it’s time for more research and production!

Hingham, Massachusetts - A place that boasts one of the greenest environments in the nation has recently banned the electric car from the road. As you all know the Zap Xebra only has 3 wheels so legally it is a motorcycle. This caused a few problems in Hingham.

The owners of these vehicles are infuriated! They spent their money and their time trying to acquire these $12,000 vehicles just to receive a letter in the mail telling them to take them off the road.

Currently the legislators are trying to work around this banning with a new law, but for now they will have to wait.