Team Agni made a strong showing in the second round of the British electric motorcycle grand prix series, finishing one-two after leaving the rest of the field well behind. The crew from London found some mojo in the second round of the TTXGP UK Championship after finishing third and fourth during the...

Team Agni made a strong showing in the second round of the British electric motorcycle grand prix series, finishing one-two after leaving the rest of the field well behind. The crew from London found some mojo in the second round of the TTXGP UK Championship after finishing third and fourth during the...

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — Here’s a peek at Sikorsky Aircraft’s electric helicopter project, the Firefly. Critics didn’t like the electro-chopper’s looks when Sikorsky announced the Firefly last week. It’s no Airwolf , but it’s based on a tried-and-true design that...

An EV that twice set the lap record for electric cars at the Refuel electric road races can be yours — if you’ve got a cool quarter million. The KleenSpeed WX10 prototype, developed with West Racecars and drven by KleenSpeed founder and president Timothy Collins, averaged 94 mph over the...

Volkswagen is diving into electric vehicles with the goal of selling 300,000 annually by 2018, and it has tapped an early pioneer of the modern EV to help hit that goal. VW Group hopes to move 10 million vehicles a year worldwide by 2018, and company boss Martin Winterkorn says cars with cords could...

Walter Roehrich knows how to build fast motorcycles, having won the Battle of the Twins with his impressive 1250sc. Now he’s turned his attention to the burgeoning e-moto scene with not one but three electric crotch-rockets. The Roehr Motorcycles e-bikes join the MotoCzysz E1PC , the Mavizen TTX02...

Toyota and Tesla Motors are going back to the future to update the RAV4 EV, essentially resurrecting an excellent electric vehicle the Japanese company killed seven years ago. The two companies announced today that they will develop the vehicle with a goal of producing it in 2012, bringing cheers from...

The latest Nissan Leaf commercial is pretty brilliant. It simply and effectively conveys one of the major benefits of electric vehicles: no tailpipe emissions. Yes, we realize that electric vehicles will still contribute to pollution via the means the electricity is created — by burning coal in most...

David Couthlard got his first taste of a high-end electric vehicle and says “You will not believe the performance.” The former F1 champion and current Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters driver took a fluorescent yellow Mercedes-Benz AMG SLS E-Cell for a spin in Norway and came away impressed with...

Tesla Motors has given the Roadster a makeover and more comfortable seats. The Silicon Valley company calls the redone ride Roadster 2.5 and says it “reflects Tesla’s commitment to innovation and the company’s close feedback loop with its customers.” The high-tech jargon is no...

The big names in aerospace have some new designs for the supersonic airliner of the future. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted ideas for a NASA research mission looking into new airplanes that could take the boom out of supersonic flight. Pictures of both aircraft released by NASA show long...

They did it. Again. The University of Michigan Solar Car Team won the American Solar Challenge for the third consecutive time, finishing the 1,100-mile race more than two hours ahead of the second-place finishers. Sixteen teams set out from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on June 20. Only 13 made it to the end,...

The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell all but sweeps aside any argument that electric vehicles can’t be as awesome as their gasoline counterparts. Yes, the E-Cell is frightfully expensive. And yes, range is still an issue. It is an electric vehicle — and a prototype at that — after all,...

Tesla Motors goes public on June 29 and hopes to raise $178 million. The Silicon Valley firm, which has selected “TSLA” as its Nasdaq ticker symbol, hopes to sell 11.1 million shares at $14 to $16 a share, according to a prospectus Tesla released today. At 16 bucks a share, Tesla would have...