My Green Wheels - The Electric Car Blog

Another car assembled at gunpoint? Well, almost ...

Christine Gupta — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:01:15 +0000

Here's a treat. A hybrid electric car from Hungary, the country that brought you the Yugo, most definitely one of the 50 worst cars of all time and memorably described in Time magazine as 'something assembled at gunpoint'.

Next generation vehicle architecture or the first LEGO car? You choose.

Christine Gupta — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:19:05 +0000

Just imagine how it would be if you could design your own electric vehicle with all the motor, battery and drive train basics built in. The modular TREXA EV lets you do just that. It provides a low profile base - known in the trade as a 'skateboard' - with all that stuff built in and you just stack whatever you want on top, so not only does it look the way you want, but you get to specify the acceleration, suspension and speed.

The electric car you can take on a train

Christine Gupta — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:59:11 +0000

the release refers to it as a lightweight 'lovebug' ... Steady on, chaps! Just because it has a joystick instead of a steering wheel there's no need for that sort of language.

The electric R8 fantasy - the sexiest electric car concept ever?

Christine Gupta — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:39:36 +0000

Power junkies were agog at the 313 horsepower and the 3,319 lb/ft of torque claimed by the e-tron from its four in-wheel motors. Talk about Fire Up The Quattro!

Peugeot's electric car you can tweet from

Christine Gupta — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:31:40 +0000

The BB1 from Peugeot is still a concept car, but I so want one. It's got the sort of design grotesqueness that only the French can create, but I still want one. Autoblog calls it 'the logical result of a one night stand between a Subaru SVX and a Peel 50,' and I still want one.

Tesla launches electric car Para-Medic Squad

Christine Gupta — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:22:50 +0000

Haven't they heard of the Automobile Association or the RAC? I thought that was what those guys have been doing for yonks - our cherished 'knights of the road' who represent the 4th emergency service in the UK - so couldn't they just be trained up to include electric cars on their house call rota?

The electric bike-in-a-bag VS granny's unicycle

Christine Gupta — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:25:32 +0000

This has been described as the evolutionary offspring of a Segway and a penny farthing. The Yike Bike is an electric bicycle with a totally radical riding position, no exposed mechanics to snag your trouser cuffs, 'smart electronics' and a carbon fibre frame that keeps its weight down to less than 10 kg. No more chaining your bike to the nearest bollard when you reach your destination - you just zip it into its carry-case and off you go.

BMW to join the electric car chase - and now there's big US money in it

Christine Gupta — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:55:34 +0000

On the very day that Obama announces a $2.4 billion electric vehicle grant in the U.S. I read here that BMW is planning to launch a new class of environmentally friendly vehicles under its own brand. According to its CEO 'certain carmakers may no longer be in the market' soon after the raft of tax penalties and incentives come into effect to force the auto industry to go green.

So BMW has decided to create a new sub-brand

Coming soon - instant full torque from a Leaf

Christine Gupta — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:54:00 +0000

I don't want to wait until late next year for this - I want it now! 5 seats, 4 doors, neat design that doesn't look like it belongs in a panto, top speed of 90mph and a claimed range of 100 miles.

Shocking new electric car from China

Christine Gupta — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:44:20 +0000

It's not pretty, the interior's a bit old-fashioned and it gave the driver a mighty electric shock when he accidentally touched the battery, but ... it has a top speed of 75mph, a 'quite feasible' claim to run 250 miles on one electric charge, it seats four and it's planned to come on sale in the UK for between £16,300 and £20,500.