Some vehicles defy easy classification. Take the plug-in electric Peraves E-Tracer, headed for California roads next year. Balanced on two wheels and operated with a throttle, it’s similar to a ...

California-based AC Propulsion, the company known for providing drive system technology for the Tesla Roadster, Mini E, and eBox electric vehicles, also created the drive system for one of the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Susan Carpenter writes about cars and motorcycles, and this week she ...

For a number of reasons, this is a match made in Heaven. Veteran EV powertrain company AC Propulsion (which built the BMW Mini E and made the car that became the Tesla Roadster) and the Progressive ...

A winner of the Progressive Automotive X-Prize could be rolling into some, but not many, driveways as early as next year. AC Propulsion and Peraves AG have signed a letter of intent to bring the ...

LOS ANGELES – Some vehicles defy easy classifi cation. Take the plug-in electric Peraves E-Tracer, headed for California roads next year. Balanced on two wheels and operated with a throttle, it’s ...

AC Propulsion, a designer and manufacturer of electric-drive systems, says it entered an agreement with Peraves AG to bring the E-Tracer electric vehicle to market in the U.S. If the E-Tracer name ...

Let’s face it. We haven’t been particularly nice about the Automotive X-Prize. While the multi-million dollar competition was originally designed to seek out new engineering talent and encourage ...

At a ceremony this morning in Washington, DC, the winners of the US$10 million Automotive X-PRIZE were announced. Not surprisingly to those of us who have been following the competition, the winner of ...

Looking a little bit like the light cycles from Tron, but without the glowy bits, the E-Tracer 7009 placed in the top three of the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition in 2010. Now the ...

Progressive Insurance’s $10 million Automotive X Prize was shared among Edison2’s ethanol-powered Very Light Car, Li-ion Motors’ battery electric Wave II and X-Tracer Team Switzerland’s ...

For the past few years, small and medium-sized automakers have looked towards the prestige of winning the Progressive Insurance Auto-X Prize. for the X-Prize. Initially set up as a way of encouraging ...