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BMW M3 Limited Edition 500 – price from £55,690

The BMW M3 Limited Edition 500 is the last hurrah for the current M3 in the UK To coincide with today’s launch of the ’12′ plates, the BMW M3 Limited Edition 500 has been revealed as coupe or convertible. Costs from £55,690. The BMW M3 Limited Edition 500 has been announced by BMW today, a cosmetic job on the current M3 and available as a coupe or convertible.

Cadillac ELR spotted on the roads

Cadillac will deliver a sporting luxury coupe with Chevrolet Volt-based technology for 2014. Called the ELR, the Caddy was previewed with the Converj concept at the 2009 Detroit auto show. These spy shots clearly reveal Caddy emblems and styling cues.

Battery breakthrough set to accelerate electric-car development

A team of scientists working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are claiming a significant breakthrough in recharging times for lithium-ion batteries. According to findings published in the scientific journal Nature, MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder have unlocked the potential of lithium-ion batteries by patenting a unique process which is claimed to allow a typical laptop power pack to be fully recharged in less than a minute--an improvement in recharging performance of roughly 90 percent over existing lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries generate electric current via the flow of lithium ions across an electrolyte, from an electrode to a cathode.