Plugs and Cars

James Woolsey gets snarky in today's Wall Street Journal. page 11.

The NY Times website reports that Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds, oil services giant Halliburton, is moving their world headquarter...

Phoenix Motor Cars in California has been working with lithium battery manufacturers AltairNano to come out with a new all-electric car. The...

Sherry Boschert has a piece in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle Insight section. Read it here .

Reuters reports on an interview with Toyota North American President Jim Press that Toyota Motor Corp. is working on developing a plug-in h...

You've got to see this series of local TV new reports by Chuck Scarborough out of WNBC New York. The Defense Hawk Frank Gaffney and Env...

PhysOrg.com reports on Xcel Energy 's study (with the Dept of Energy NREL lab) on the potential effect of plug-in hybrids on the electr...

This year Toyota makes its SUVs and trucks even larger. Toyota increasingly devotes precious energy contained in hybrid batteries charged wi...

The Detroit News reports that an all-electric pickup and a plug-in hybrid will pay a visit to the White House today. How Phoenix Motor Cars...

The National Center for Policy Analysis reports : CAR M.P.G. RATINGS GOING DOWN. The cars aren't actually getting worse mileage, but the...

And GM keeps telling us the batteries aren't ready. AP via the Detroit News Link Albuquerque, N.M., to be site for electric car producti...

Today the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports "Soaring Energy Use Puts Oil Squeeze on Iran." Iran may start ratio...

Two Senators asked the question yesterday at the hearing on global warming convened by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). First, Sen. Bernie Sanders...

With the post below, Rancher Dave joins Plugs and Cars. RancherD along with his wife, Heather, are true heroes of the electric car movement....

I love it when someone outside our EV and hybrid world truly begins to understand the connections at play here. I also hope for his next col...

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...