Plugs and Cars

AutoBlogGreen has the details on the '08 Highlander, and it includes an EV mode! Now you will be able to move the car across the street ...

The Detroit News has the alternative fuel breakdown in the president's budget request, and it isn't pretty. Increases for hydrogen ...

The case for ethanol, if not the funding , is wilting on the vine. Scientific American points out the problems in " Is Ethanol for the ...

NY Times reports: Exxon’s profit rose 9 percent from 2005 results to a record of $39.5 billion, the largest annual profit ever for an Ame...

The Norway Post reports that Th!nk Global will manufacture 500 Th!nk City electric cars in 2007, with production beginning in summer. No s...

Investors Business Daily posted an editorial this week, Just Plain Fuelish , that just plain gets it. A smorgasbord of research alternative...

The Detroit News story today, Big 3's call for U.S. aid gets cool reception , outlines the predicament faced by automakers and Washingto...

A report from IsraelNationalNews.com out of Davos reports on talks to build electric cars in Israel. At the just-ended World Economic Forum...

Michael Kanellos over at CNetNews.com reports from the recent Clean-Tech Investor Summit that Tesla Motors will be selling its battery pack...

Maybe he means it this time. Perhaps the 7th SOTU mention will be the charm. But a story in today's NY Times, Energy Research on a Shoes...

Lodi News-Sentinel Reports Over 400 people turned out for a free viewing of Who Killed the Electric Car? in Lodi, CA last night. Lodi is n...

First hint from the NY Times says ethanol will be the big winner in Bush's State of the Union Address. Advocates of plug-in cars are hop...

GM wants to know if you think they should make the Volt. As of today, it's Yes: 106,000; No: 1800. Vote for the Volt . It can't hurt...

In the wake of the Chevy Volt presentation by GM, my "plug-in hybrid" google alert has filled my inbox with reports from other aut...

David Roberts is a staff writer at Grist , an online enviro magazine. He's written a piece in TomPaine.com that deserves attention. As ...

Corn and petroleum course through our veins. As Michael Pollan convincingly argues in The Omnivore's Dilemma , what we eat has become a...

NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow spent half an hour on the Volt . Bill Moore of EVWorld.com , Paul Scott of Plug In America . Enthu...

Associated Press report in The State of Columbia, South Carolina "The Volt overcomes range, noise and power issues that plagued previou...

In Stockholm and LA it was just the BioPower 100, a 100% ethanol fueled hybrid. A premature press release identified it as a plug-in, but th...

What a difference a week or two can make. Chris Paine, director of "Who Killed the Electric Car?," is attending the Detroit Auto S...