A Kiwi who helped found the Tesla motor group is now leading a rapidly-expanding company which converts diesel trucks into electric hybrids. Ian Wright and

Transport Minister enthusiastic about EVs but big subsidies or tax breaks off the table. By Grant Bradley. The Government wants to speed up the slow

Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges has been talking the talk about electric cars and how they might not only help the environment, but also

By Dave Moore. When the Minister of Transport recently uttered that New Zealand was “the most EV-ready country” recently, one wonders what kind of research

By Steve LeVine. Several major automobile makers are racing to create electric cars within an upper-mass-market sweet spot—traveling 200 miles or more on a charge,

By Lauren Hepler. For all the talk about all the ways technology stands to revolutionize the experience of driving, most cars on the market today

By Brandon Engel. Although anyone can easily point to the failures of green energy investments over the past decades, such as Solyndra, the green energy

By Natasha Thyne. Geraldine High School students are gearing up to defend their title in EVolocity, but they might have some other local competition to

By Adrien Taylor. The Kiwi co-founder of Tesla says although the company has done wonders to change the public perception of electric cars, there are

By Lois Cairns. New Zealand Post is keeping quiet about when its electric delivery vehicles could be introduced into Christchurch, saying it does not want

A council across the Tasman is pleased with the performance of electric vehicles (EVs) in its fleet. Chris Binns, manager of strategy and assets at

By Juha Saarinen. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest house and business battery venture is an interesting but also very ambitious gambit. Most of the reporting

A colleague laughed like a drain when a Prius C was offered as a test car recently. Toyota, to their credit, neither named nor mentioned

The chairman of Drive Electric believes many marques are likely to have electric variants in all of the segments that they have models in the

By Jon Russell. You almost certainly associate Tesla with cars — very cool cars — but the company has an even grander vision beyond that.

By Mark Gilbert. Executives at BP, which has a market value of about $130 billion and a family tree dating to an oil discovery in

By Ellen Read. Imagine having the cost of recharging your electric vehicle, monitoring your home power use, and seeing how much money you made from

by Jay Cole. Richard Emery, CEO of Nissan Australia, has taken his government and its industry minister Ian Macfarlane to task over its apparent love

Combining figures from the Department for Transport with new data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reveals that the total number of

Since last week’s launch of a free public EV charger at Vector’s Carlton Gore Road offices, there has been a steady stream of electric vehicles

By Jay Yarow. Elon Musk almost sold Tesla to Google in 2013, according to Ashlee Vance, author of a new book on Musk. At the

By Craig Trudell and Yuki Hagiwara. When Scott Fisher bought his 2006 Prius, there weren’t many other choices that give him use of the carpool

By Peter Calder. Deep pockets will be needed to make city commuters change their ways and sign up for scheme. Stand on any Auckland motorway

Electric vehicle charging station ready to go in Newmarket Via Driven Electric vehicle drivers can now charge up – for free – at a new