We get a lot of reader mail every month. Whereas “You’re idiots for not picking the same car I would have chosen in that comparo,” “You’re on Hummer’s [or some other car company’s] payroll,” and “Dude ...

View post: Amazon Is Selling a 'Long-Lasting' $179 DeWalt Battery for $100 BMW has released official pricing for its latest foray into the world of electric vehicles, and compared to the rest of your ...

Ask any middle child and they'll be happy to tell you about how little attention they received from their parents. The oldest and the youngest always hogged the spotlight, they say. If the BMW ActiveE ...

Electric cars, at the moment, cost more to buy than gasoline cars of similar size and with similar features, powertrain excepted. Leases on electric cars from mass-market brands like Nissan and ...

Ryan de Villiers is a budding automotive journalist based in South Africa and serving as one of the newest additions to the CarBuzz team. He immediately pursued a career in journalism after finishing ...

The future is electric, and BMW knows it as well as anyone despite the fact that the only EVs put out by the company have thus far been limited-distribution, lease-only development cars. The ActiveE ...

BMW launched a new website Thursday that presents range, cost savings and environmental impact data taken from 700 ActiveE drivers (dubbed “Electronauts” by BMW … really guys?) to inform consumers ...

BMW will finally deliver the electric car everyone knew was coming at the NAIAS in January. The BMW ActiveE Concept is essentially an electric BMW 1 Series Coupe built using the knowledge gained from ...

What do you do with a fleet of surplus electric cars? As their two-year leases to BMW's fleet of "Electronaut" test drivers expire, BMW ActiveE electric cars are now returning to the company. So BMW ...

There are always growing pains when automakers introduce new technologies. BMW is learning this with the electric powetrain used on the 2011 BMW ActiveE. According to the National Highway Traffic ...

“The electric motor’s torque made it easy to exploit gaps in traffic, and the stock 1 Series nimbleness remained mostly intact despite the fact that the ActiveE weighs 716 pounds more than a 2013 128i ...

Bengt Halvorson February 4, 2012 Comment Now! If you’ve driven a Nissan Leaf, you’ll agree that while the near-instantaneous torque provided by its electric motor system from standstill can be ...