After being test driven by FedEx, Nissan is now lending one of their e-NV200 to Coca-Cola so that the company can evaluate it as a delivery vehicle. Coca-Cola Central Japan Co., Ltd. will be using this all electric cargo van as a regional sales vehicle in Yokohama. To evaluate whether or not one night of charging is sufficient for a days worth of typical usage, the van will only be plugged in overnights.
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Toyota has developed a new Pre-collision system (PCS) with collision avoidance assist that is designed to help avoid accidents. This new technology is even effective at helping mitigate high-speed collisions by using a millimeter-wave radar to help detect the risk of a rear-end collision.
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After it’s official release yesterday, Lamborghini has shed some light on how the roof mechanism of the 2013 Lamborghini Aventagor LP700-4 Roadster works. A video has been made at the US private release in Miami gives a tutorial to show how to store and fix the two carbon fiber panels.
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There is a hybrid, plug-in, and all-electric vehicle war going on in the U.S. new car market right now and Ford is not sitting out on the side lines. Attacking Toyota and their range of Prius vehicles isn’t the only way Ford plans to boost sales of its “green” fleet, which will include the hybrid and plug-in (“Energi” in Ford talk) versions of the C-MAX and the Fusion, and the pure-electric Focus EV by 2013.
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>Based on the Nissan Leaf, the world’s first street-legal electric limousine did not hold its job at the Embassy suites hotel in Nashville, Tennesse for long since the car was listed for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $50,000 and a ‘Buy it now price’ of $57,000.
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Using solar energy or photo-voltaic systems is an environmentally friendly way of producing electricity which also helps reduce the carbon emissions. Car manufacturer Renault is using this technology to come up with the ‘ World’s largest photo-voltaic system in the auto industry.’ This project will ‘hit two birds with one stone’ for Renault. Not only will they use the system for environmentally friendly purposes, the photo-voltaic panel will act as a shield for the company’s cars before they roll out of the premises, to protect them from natural elements, especially hail.

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Toyota is preparing a new sub-compact model that will be based on the Mazda2 for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Manufacturing will take place at Mazda‘s plant in Mexico, which is currently under construction and is scheduled to become operational within the fiscal year ending March 2014.
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Under the hood of the 2014 Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series is the same 6.3-liter V8 that powers the regular SLS, which in this case makes 622 hp and 468 lb-ft or torque. That means this car gets a jump of 40 hp and a loss of about 10 lb-ft of torque, though it is still the most powerful combustion engine in AMG’s lineup. A DCT sever-speed automatic transmission is responsible for the power this Mercedes has.
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