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Looks like a Smart EV competitor, the MG Dynamo concept EV is being presented for the 90th anniversary celebration of MG. It is less than 12 feet long and weighs 2,376 pounds. It has 70 horsepower and 114 pound-feet of torque with a range of 80 km...

An interesting little bit of data from fleetcarma that seems worthy of a closer look. http://news.fleetcarma.com/2014/01/16/cold-weather-fuel-efficiency/

I need to do a day trip to Sherbrooke tomorrow and am looking for charging options as I am pretty sure I won't be able to make it there and back from Laval without charging somewhere. I have done this trip in one charge before but that was in warmer weather. I was hoping to make use of the SCH...

The TM page listing the North American stores now lists the Montreal SC location as an official store. I assume this is temporary until they get a permanent location nevertheless it is still good news. http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/findus/stores http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA/montreal...

Vente de véhicules électriques (VÉ) au Québec - cumulatif au 31 mars The first data I have seen on the EV sales figures in Québec. It is only up to March but ...

In an article in the Montreal Gazette on the Model S the journalist states that This would be great news if true and I would assume that it would probably not be isolated to just Montreal and could signal Tesla's expansion in Canada beyond just adding service centers.

Nice to see such an inter State/Provincial bit of collaboration ... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/06/18/quebec-vermont-electric-car-terminals.html

I heard a rumor last week about them beggining to set up a service center in Calgary and just checked the service center page and voila! http://www.teslamotors.com/findus/service the link to this page from the one above is active but the destination page is not...

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-repays-department-energy-loan-nine-years-early The press release is out ...

Electric Vehicle Deployment Where Should We Be Today? | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

A parallel hybrid with 30km EV range. They are also playing with the idea of using cameras to replace the side mirrors ... Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo gets its driving debut Mods: I searched and didn't see a thread already created about this. Please merge if it is already there.

Another COTY award poll going on at Car of the Year

The Canadian version of the Model S pages have finally been cleaned up to more closely resemble the US ones (with the glaring exception of the options and pricing page which of course is currently absent). Previously, If you had your country set to Canada, you could only get to some version of...

Today's poll is on Electric cars ... vote now, vote often ... http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ They even have a video (which shows Doug_G's roadster in the background but only talk about the leaf) which is meant to expose more people to the benefits of EV ownership.

Military moves ahead on smart energy investments Some are attempting to make it a political issue when it's not about that ...

http://www.teslamotors.com/event/model-s-beta-prototype-tour-laval come to me my pretty ... probably too early for test drives/rides but it still helps to pass the time. check out the events page as there are other stops in the Canada Model S Beta Prototype Tour. Ottawa...

French EV On A Round-The-World Electric Odyssey | Autopia | Wired.com Now that's a road trip!

Pininfarina | 2012 Geneva Preview Full Pininfarina Cambiano concept renderings leaked ahead of Geneva

MRI Reveals Mysteries Inside Batteries for Gadgets and Electric Cars | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network what i don't get is why we don't run into a schroedinger's cat scenario? Wouldn't the magnetic fields affect the battery during observation?

Slippery Solar Car Carrier Saves 13 Tons Of Fuel Each Trip | Autopia | Wired.com nice use of several different fuel saving technologies ...

Electric cars outsold hybrids by a two-to-one margin in China last year "Overall, Asia-Pacific will account for about 617,000 electric-drive vehicles sold in 2017, almost double North America's total ..." This seems to be on lower end of others estimates for EV sales by 2017 ...

Tesla Model S, BMW i3 among 2012 Green Car Vision finalists don't know if it affects the actual vote but they have their own poll going ... vote now and vote often!

http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/19/toyota-could-have-600-mile-solid-state-battery-ready-by-2015-20/

Bonus: Clean power and Lithium from the same facility "A new process aims to extract lithium from the brines used to generate electricity in a geothermal power plant" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=geothermal-power-plants-could-help-produce-lithium-for-electric-cars

First signs that the charging infrastructure in quebec is being implemented ... You can see the station (and wires) for the electric commuter train in the background ...

Hydro-Quebec hands over 15 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs to suburban Montreal businesses Autoblog Green

Quebec plugs into EV 'anxiety'

Some Volt dealers take tax credit themselves - Business - Autos - msnbc.com

Found this and was wondering if there were many more out there ... Infinyte Marine