Topic: Renault SA

How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry

Nike's Mark Parker brings together extreme talents, whether they're basketball stars, tattooists, or designers obsessed with shoes.READ»

• Nike's All-Star Designer
• Kobe Talks Shoes
• Biomechanists at Play

Can China Turn EV Infrastructure Startup, Better Place Into a Success?

Electric vehicle infrastructure startup Better Place has a compelling business model: Better Place-branded EV charging stations allow drivers to juice up at home and at work, while gas station-like battery switch stations let ...READ»

Renault Unveils the Ultra-Slick DeZir Gullwing Coupe EV

Watch out Tesla, Fisker, and Mercedes-Benz. French automaker Renault is angling for a share of the luxury electric vehicle market with the DeZir coupe, an electric two-seater concept car with a Kevlar body and tubular steel ...READ»

The Sims Lets You Drive an Electric Renault Prototype

Renault may have discovered the secret to making electric vehicles more palatable for the masses: Stick them in video games. The automaker's Twizy Z.E. concept vehicle isn't going on sale in Europe until next year, but Sims players ...READ»

Daimler, Renault to Team Up On Small Car, Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technology

Sign number one that automakers are serious about making the transition to hybrid and electric vehicles: They're teaming up to share technology. Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance are expected to announce a global partnership ...READ»

Better Place Gets $350 Million Cash Injection for EV Charging Network

It doesn't matter how many electric vehicles are on the road--they're virtually useless without some sort of EV charging network infrastructure. That's where Silicon Valley electric vehicle startup Better Place comes in. Better ...READ»

Nissan Proves a Big Market Exists for Cheap Electric Cars

Abandon your doubts that an affordably priced EV will do well. Nissan's news yesterday confirms it: Almost 22,000 people in North America have contacted Nissan since it announced, in August, that the LEAF EV sedan--expected to hit ...READ»

France Spending $2.2 Billion on Electric Car Charging Network

No one will buy electric cars if there are no plug-in stations, but no one will build plug-in stations without EVs on the road. That's the conundrum for both car makers and plug-in infrastructure companies. Fortunately, the public ...READ»

Branding Better Place: Building an Electric Vehicle Movement

A grassroots-level campaign helps to introduce and explain a new award-winning system for charging and using electric vehicles.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies

Why Is the Auto Industry Spending Billions on Hydrogen-Powered Wishful Thinking?

Everyday, it seems, we hear about another electric vehicle start-up with plans to revolutionize the auto industry. And with companies like Coulomb Technologies and Better Place slowly expanding their networks of EV charging and ...READ»

Will Portugal Become a Leader in the Electric Car Industry?

Portugal is a country with a problem: it has no domestic coal, natural gas, or oil resources, so Western Europe's poorest nation is forced to import most of it's energy. The quandary makes the country an ideal candidate for ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Ethonomics

1. Shai Agassi, CEO, Better Place A former software entrepreneur, Agassi is leading the pack on electric vehicle charging stations. His vision: battery-powered vehicles made by Renault-Nissan, a vast network of charging ...READ»

Renault Unveils Prototype Be Bop Z.E. Electric Car: The Shape of Things to Come?

Renault just pulled the covers off its technology demonstrator Be Bop Z.E. all-electric car. It's going to tour Europe to show off its cleverness, and its drive train will actually end up in future Renault EVs from 2011 onwards.As it ...READ»

Nissan Bringing Electric Vehicle Charging Corridor to Arizona

Tack on Phoenix, Arizona to the growing list of U.S. cities that plan on developing an electric vehicle (EV) charging network with guidance from Renault-Nissan. The car company, which will sell its lithium-ion powered EVs to ...READ»

Tech Watch: Australian Companies Fund Electric Vehicle Grid

Better Place, a US firm that builds plug-in stations for electric cars, has just landed a $667 million USD deal to build charging networks in Australia’s three largest cities. Like smaller-scale Better Place deals already underway in Denmark and Israel, the Australian charging network will allow battery-powered and hybrid car-owners to charge their vehicles at thousands of locations, or have their vehicles batteries swapped out for faster fill-ups. READ»