Early this year, Volvo Cars announced that Polestar will no longer be its performance arm. Instead, Polestar is now a standalone brand which will only make electric performance vehicles from its brand new manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China. Here’s their first model, a stop-gap from the all-electric powertrains, a 592bhp hybrid. Say hello to the […]
The 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show had action aplenty from the Three Germans and Mercedes-Benz had concepts and unveils across the spectrum. In between the Project One hypercar and the smart vision EQ fortwo, was a cool hatchback showcar by the name of the Concept EQA. Building on their electric division first unveiled at the 2016 […]
Whether us petrol-heads want to accept it or not, fully electric and autonomous cars are coming and the race for making the best one is well and truly underway between the world’s best carmakers. At the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, the brand with the four rings has shown its vision – the Aicon. The Aicon is […]
This year’s Frankfurt Motor Show had some insane reveals and showcases, hypercars and autonomous EVs. Amongst them, Honda had a little gem at the IAA, a retro hot hatch – the Urban EV Concept. This electric car concept from Honda is expected to be introduced in production form in 2019. The Urban EV Concept is […]
Infiniti as a brand turned 30 this year and amongst their usual line up of SUVs and crossovers, the company has shown a concept car that reveals that their engineers are very much in tune with their inner car nut – the Prototype 9. You see, Infiniti may have come into existence within Nissan just […]
The Chinese have made their splash in the realm of fast electric vehicles, and spectacularly so. Say hello to the NextEV Nio EP9, possibly the fastest EV in the world, and it just set a new fastest lap record for an EV around the Nurburgring. With its Koenigsegg-ish styling, the EP9 covered the 20.8 km […]
With Tesla showing the world the potential of electric cars for uses both practical and fun, the world’s main manufacturers too are starting to make the move towards better electric cars. This year’s Mondial de l’Automobile Paris, more commonly known as the Paris Auto Show was therefore mainly about efficient cars, hybrids, new-age electric cars and […]
Just over a month ago, one of the world’s leading electric car company made a spectacular announcement that got the attention of petrol-heads everywhere. Tesla’s new Model S P100D with Ludicrous mode can do 0-60mph in 2.5 seconds, making it the third fastest accelerating in-production car ever to be made. The electric only Model S […]
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