Volkswagen on Tuesday said it may be forced to recall 124,000 electric and hybrid cars due to the presence of cadmium, a carcinogenic metal, in the vehicles.
Germany's massive car industry is the biggest investor worldwide in electric vehicles, a study published Monday found, as it scrambles under increasing pressure to adopt low-emissions technology.
German carmakers BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Audi and US competitor Ford said on Tuesday they would cooperate on a Europe-wide network of electric charging stations.
Cars bearing the stamp of once-defunct manufacturer Borgward will once again roll off an assembly line in north Germany from 2018, the firm said Wednesday.
Germany will subsidise electric car purchases to give a jolt to sluggish growth in the sector and help meet national climate goals with zero-emission mobility, the government said Wednesday.
The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal has raised serious questions about the viability of diesel as a clean energy source. Could this be the chance to dominate Germany that electric cars have been waiting for?
Germany plans to have one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, but so far that goal seems remote as the nation's motorists have shown little love for the quietly humming vehicles.
German carmaker Daimler said on Monday it had teamed up with Franco-Japanese automakers Renault-Nissan and US giant Ford to develop a fuel cell for electric cars by 2017.
Germany’s plan to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020 is unlikely to do much for the environment without a dramatic increase in renewable energy, the daily <i>Tageszeitung</i> reported on Monday.
Six weeks before the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW has unveiled concept vehicles that the company hopes will make it a trend-setter in the electric car business.
An affordable electric car? Researchers at the Technical University Munich (TUM) believe they’re close to having an answer. Say hello to the Mute. While it can't speak, it can drive pretty darn fast.
It's a motor rally with a difference: souped-up "green" vehicles going head to head in an international eco-marathon to see who runs the longest on as little energy as possible.
The German government is planning to give a massive financial boost to the research and development of electric cars, aiming to have 1 million on the road by 2020.
The German government is reportedly considering splashing out billions of subsidies for e-mobility efforts in order to help meet its goal of getting a million electric cars on the nation's streets by 2020.
The German luxury carmaker BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen of France announced Monday they would invest €100 million ($138 million) in a joint venture to develop hybrid vehicle technology.
The German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled on Monday its long-awaited new brand, BMW i, with two new models to be equipped with electric and hybrid drive systems from 2013.
German software maker SAP is taking steps into the electric car market. The company is developing programs to manage emission-free corporate fleets and will add electric vehicles to its own group of company cars.
An electric car drove from Munich in southern Germany to Berlin without recharging its battery on Tuesday, setting what organisers hailed as a new world distance record for an everyday vehicle.
German national rail provider Deutsche Bahn plans to start a pilot programme in Berlin and Potsdam in summer 2010 to test an electric car sharing service, financial daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Friday.
Hoping to burnish their green credentials ahead of next month's election, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats have pledged to triple state funding for developing electric cars if they win, the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported on Tuesday.
