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On paper the 2013 Honda CR-Z appears rather expensive, relatively slow, quite cramped, and wears a 'hybrid' badge that nobody correlated with sportiness until supercars started using the same technology – well after the CR-Z was on sale.
The production version of the all-electric Volkswagen E-Up! has made a brief appearance at today's annual VW press and investor conference at Wolfsburg ahead of its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
The Renault Zoe is a full electric-vehicle with no internal combustion engine. This means that at no time are there any fossil fuels going into a tank, because it doesn't have one, and emissions aren't expelled from an exhaust pipe ...
At $22,990 the Honda Jazz Hybrid is Australia’s most affordable hybrid vehicle. But the second-generation Honda Jazz has been around since 2008, with a moderate update in 2011, so what makes this now nearly five-year old city car a candidate of a...
Despite the likely prospect that Australia won’t see either the BMW i8 or i3 before mid-2014 at the earliest, more than six Australians have already put deposits down on BMW’s high-performance i8 plug-in hybrid sports car.
Volvo Car Corporation is ramping up production of its all-new V60 Plug-in Hybrid ahead of initial customer deliveries in early 2013. Volvo will build an initial batch of just 1000 cars for model year 2013, before increasing production to...
The Honda Insight is one of a trio of hybrid models now offered by the Japanese car maker. Until 2012, it was Australia's most affordable petrol-electric model, priced from $29,990, before the Toyota Prius C city car came along.
The Nissan Leaf is one of the few electric cars you can buy in Australia, and it's even rarer as one designed to enter the mainstream. With a price tag of $51,500 for what is essentially a small hatchback, it will still be many years -...
In 2012, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV remains an enormously expensive city car at $48,800, though it's also still unique in the light car segment as an all-electric vehicle. The tiny Mitsubishi was the first proper electric car of the modern era to...
SPA. They may just look like three little letters, but to Volvo, they represent the future. Short for 'Scalable Platform Architecture', Volvo V40 technical director Sven-Gunnar Johansson told CarAdvice at the 2012 Paris motor show SPA will...
A second-hand Lotus Exige originally bought on eBay has smashed the British record for an electric vehicle by reaching 243km/h at Elvington Airfield near York. The Lotus Exige called 'Nemesis' is owned by Dale Vince, the founder of utility...
Volvo has sold its first batch of 1000 Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid wagons before the cars have even reached showrooms. And Volvo Car Corporation marketing, sales and customer service senior vice president Doug Speck says the order books are...
Mazda Australia has confirmed its all-new Mazda6 range will feature the brand's innovative capacitor-based i-ELOOP brake energy regeneration system as standard equipment. Mazda will be the first car manufacturer in the world to use...
Finally, Australians can buy a sensible electric car - it's called the Holden Volt and comes without the worry of running out of juice and heading home on a tow truck. That’s because the Holden Volt is a stepping-stone to the full electric...
Honda introduced the third-generation Honda City in Australia in 2009, after notching up over one million sales across 39 countries. The 2012 edition boasts only a slightly revised look but comes with reduced pricing.
When the first-generation Toyota Prius launched back in 1997, there were more than a few industry pundits who thought the whole hybrid thing was a fad. And like most fads, they thought it wouldn’t last.