Electric Cars News

Electric vehicles in India will finally have some differentiation from their internal combustion counterparts on the road. All electric vehicles in India will soon get a new (and we think rather cool) green license plate. The government yesterday approved of this new move to a different coloured plate specially for zero emissions vehicles for both private and commercial use. The private electric vehicles will have a green backing and white fonts while commercial electric vehicles will have a green background and yellow fonts. These will also be applicable to electric busses and other electric commercial vehicles that are road legal.

By 2025, Audi will invest approximately 40 billion Euros into strategic areas such as e-mobility, autonomous driving and digitization.

Aston Martin has announced that it will launch an all-electric SUV in 2021 under the recently resurrected Lagonda marque.

Japanese automakers, Honda, Toyota and Nissan have all come together as a part of this program in order to benefit from it for their electric and hybrid mobility projects.

Touted to be introduced by 2020, the next generation Bentley Mulsanne will be based on a completely new platform.

South Korean car maker KIA Motors has unveiled the Niro EV compact crossover in its production guise at the the 5th International Electric Vehicle Expo in Jeju, South Korea. The car was first showcased as a concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January this year, and the production-spec model borrows several cues from the former. The new KIA Niro EV will be making its global debut at the Paris Motor Show later this year.

Volvo Cars' market share for plug-in hybrid cars in its home market Sweden is now about 18 percent.

Along with a powerful V6 engine, the Cayenne E-Hybrid combines with a virtually silent electric engine to generate system power of 462bhp.