General Motors has a lot invested in the Chevy Volt, both financially and as a model for the company's vision going forward. Now that they've got this whole fancy hybrid electric drivetrain figured out, they're starting to find other things to stuff it into, and first up is a fancy new Cadillac concept made real.

Top Gear is not a huge fan of electric cars. They dissed the Tesla Roadster pretty badly back in 2008, and Tesla is now suing them for libel. In Top Gear's most recent review, they made fun of the Nissan LEAF for dying on them in the middle of nowhere, but Nissan says they've got proof that Top Gear cheated.

We're big fans of electric cars, being vehicles that run on clean energy and all, but we're also incredibly sensitive to design. When we first caught wind that BMW was getting into the electric car business, we hopped around ecstatically like little schoolgirls. But those were concept renders. BMW took the wraps off its new BMW i series vehicles and both of them look futuristically gorgeous — or at least as true to a BMW as a car from the future can look.

Electricity is nothing like gas. You can't just pump a tank full of it into your electric car, which means that we're reduced to lengthy charge times or inefficient compromises like battery swap stations. MIT researchers may have come close to solving this problem with a battery goo that you can pump just like gas.