Daily Torque – Automotive News

Almost everyone in the car industries is moving towards the greener technology with less emission. Just last week Toyota delivered one of five Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid PHV to its Quebec provincial partners at a ceremony. There will be 500 of this hybrid next year January to be put on the road in USA, Europe [...]

Citroen has announced that this Survolt will be unveiled in the Le Mans Classic today. This is the teaser video on all-electric sports car concept by Citroen, Survolt. The car measures 3.85m long, 1.87m wide and 1.2m high with a weigh of 1,150kg. It could go from 0 to 60mph in slightly under 5 [...]

It is now our tenth friday since we first started this Automotive News QuickLinks. Here is some quite car news:-

[Green News] Flying Car should be available next year – from Terrafugia Transition
[Car Tech] Driving while Blind – Great news for blind people
[Green News] Car Fuel made from CO2 and Sunlight
[Humor] Dog Chew off Cop’s Car Bumper [...]

Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell is a 100% powered by electricity with 4 motors positioned near the wheels and are connected to one transmission per axle. The souce of the power are form the lithium-ion polymer battery modules located center tunnel just behind the seats. This is a mean electric car configuration that has a maximum [...]

I suppose everyone is riding on the electric train nowadays, where even the SLS AMG is having an electric version !
Even the gullwing doors are electric ! This baby is gonna be running on 4 electric motors where you can say, 1 motor for each wheel :p The total power available from these motors will [...]

Week 6 of our Automotive News Update. And this week we got some interesting read about the car industry:-

Most overpriced 2010 Cars – by comparing consumer satisfaction rating and their price, so are you driving one of this overpriced cars?
Ssangyong Motor has seven bidders – Renault-Nissan, India’s Mahindra and Ruia Groups respectively, Seoul Invest are [...]

This is one interesting find on the future of Electric Car. This is definitely where Volvo is heading since they have collaberated with Imperial College London on this 3.4 million euro project to develop a prototype. This prototype material will stores and discharges electrical energy. The difficulties of hybrid and EV manufacturers is the location [...]

Another Electric car coming up Guess all the carmakers are totally serious on this topic.
The BMW ActiveE is powered by an electric motor that gives out about 170 bhp and 250 Nm of torque, totally impressive !
For a single charge, this car can go about 160 km before having to recharge for [...]

This is a very interesting concept car, where Renault actually partnered with Biotherm, yes the skin care company to develop this.
The concept stresses more on health and well-being and on top of that it is an electric car !!
The Zoe Z.E. is equipped with state-of-the-art air filtration and purification technology, so that it helps the [...]

Ok, first there was this eRuf electric Porsche with like 300+HP, then the Koenigsegg ccxr with like 1000+ hp. Already i am quite dumbfounded with the fact that electric cars are capable of producing this kind of HP, and now there is a Tesla roadster electric car (Featured earlier here) thats capable of drifting !!!