Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd., a part of the US $14.4 billion Mahindra Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Bank of India.

Its makers are in talks with a number of European cities to assemble the tiny electric vehicles that can run 120 kilometres (75 miles) without a recharge and whose speed is electronically set to respect city limits.

Renault and Nissan electric cars available for test driving and powering appliances during World Economic Forum in Davos

This means an electric car currently could handle the vast majority of the individual trips Americans make with no problem, especially if a recharge was available at the other end for the small amount of journeys.

In 2011, China manufactured 5655 pure electric vehicles and only 2713 hybrid electric cars.

Electric vehicles just became exciting. For 111 years, electric cars that rely only on a battery have had a range of only 30-50 miles and the humble golf electric car has been the only type selling in hundreds.

The 2,629 electrics cars are a very small piece of the pie. Worse, the most optimistic estimate is that fewer than 500 electric vehicles have been bought by individuals.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided a ?180m loan to French car maker the Renault Group to support research and development into lithium ion batteries and motors for electric cars.

Upon acquiring Khazanah Nasional Bhd?s 42.7 per cent stake in Proton Holdings Bhd, DRB-Hicom aims to put into action and realise a workable business model, with special emphasis on electric car.

Green Automotive to provide vehicle distribution and other related services under an exclusive License for sales of all Niyato Electric Vehicles in Western United States.

Everybody is talking about electric car. LEAF has already sold over 20,000 electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries so, I think today is really the time of electric cars, and they will continue to grow.

Just 2,149 electric cars have been sold since 2006, despite a government scheme last year offering customers up to £5,000 towards the cost of an electric car. Just1,082 electric cars were sold in the UK last year.

Annual sales for electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries totaled 5,579 in 2011. Sedans and buses accounted for 61 percent and 28 percent of all electric vehicle sales, respectively.

Ford Motor will be introducing five new electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries into the North American marketplace within the next 12 months.

In keeping with emerging electric car technologies, last year the Vehicles Technology Program also awarded $3 million to UQM to develop a non-rare-earth permanent magnet motor architecture.

The state of Tennessee is buying five Nissan LEAF electric cars with lithium ion batteries as part of a clean energy initiative.

Tata has unveiled the prototype for a $20000 electric car at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate(R) lithium ion batteries and systems, congratulates BMW on the launch of the ActiveHybrid 3 and ActiveHybrid 5 hybrid electric cars.

AMP Electric Vehicles (OTCBB and OTCQB: AMPD), an electric car company, specializing in truck conversions, introduced the AMP MLe AWD, the first all electric All Wheel Drive SUV.

ACG Cars of California, a technological leader in the field of neighborhood electric cars, is now offering a fun, affordable, street legal alternative to the family sedan.