In the high tech, high stakes world of 21st century super sports cars, Mercedes-Benz has just claimed bragging rights with the new SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive.

Not only is this the world’s fastest electrically powered production car, it’s also the most powerful high performance vehicle AMG has ever made. Providing all that speed and strength are four electric motors producing 740-horsepower and 737.5 lb.-ft. of torque. With their instantaneous thrust, the SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive is able to rocket from 0-100 km/h in just 3.9 seconds.

In a recent interview with Laurens van den Acker, the head of design for Renault, Autocar has confirmed that the Caterham-Renault collaboration won’t just create one brand new sports car, but will instead create a sports car for each company in a move very similar to that of the Subaru BRZ and Toyota GT 86/Scion FRS.

The only difference is however, that the Renault and Caterham sports cars will look completely different from each other rather than the ‘Toyobaru’ duo which are almost identical.

“This is not a project that will create two cars that look the same, like the Toyota GT86 and Subaru BRZ,” said van den Acker. “What we plan to create is two cars that will look completely different. People will not recognise them when they are parked together.”

Battery innovation isn’t as slow as many people think it is, and the continued pace of battery improvement enables entirely new types of electric car design, according to Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel.

Tesla could have never created the Model S — it’s second-generation electric car that won Motor Trend’s car of the year award for 2012 — with battery technology from a few decades ago, said Tesla’s CTO and co-founder J.B. Straubel at the Cleantech Investor Summit last week. He explained, “The type of vehicle we can create is fundamentally different every time that tech [batteries] moves a little forward.”

An electric car is connected to a charging station in Rome.

If you build it, they will come.

That’s the bet behind an ambitious plan to boost the number of electric vehicles and hybrids plying European roads by making electric charging stations nearly as common as gas stations.

The European Union wants to build a half million charging stations by 2020.

”We can finally stop the chicken and the egg discussion on whether infrastructure needs to be there before the large scale roll out of electric vehicles. With our proposed binding targets for charging points using a common plug, electric vehicles are set to hit the road in Europe,” the European commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard told the press.

The two-seat sports car is going to be one of the weapons in Alfa Romeo’s push to come back to the United States, SlashGear reports.

Alfa Romeo has a new two-seat sports car destined for the United States next year. The car is a sporty Alfa Romeo 4C and Fiat/Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne said at the Detroit Motor Show that he was confident the car would be coming to the U.S.

The newly redesigned Corvette Stingray is unveiled by General Motors in a formal industrial complex

This week, the sleek, speedy Chevy Corvette turns 60 years old. In the increasingly competitive auto business, where few cars make it past their teens, that makes it nearly ancient.

General Motors, however, is not retiring one of America's oldest sports cars just yet, and is embarking on the perilous path of updating the beloved brand. The auto company unveiled the new 2014 Corvette at the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday, a model that also revives the long-dormant Stingray name.

Siemens, Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand and shipping company Norled have developed what they say is the world’s first electrically powered car ferry.

The 80-meter vessel can carry 120 cars and 360 passengers. From 2015 onward, it will serve the route between Lavik and Oppedal, Norway, across the Sognefjord.