Plugs and Cars

Editor & Publisher reports the NY Times has taken delivery of a long-awaited plug-in hybrid Sprinter Van from Daimler/Chrysler. It will...

Sen. Barbara Boxer attended a Silicon Valley Alternative Energy Summit today and PG&E was there with its plug-in hybrid Prius. Green Wom...

The Detroit News Autos Insider reports on Ford CEO Alan Mulally's oops moment about Bush's oops moment. "I violated all the pr...

Why are even the smartest journalists unable to get beyond the hype when it comes to automobiles and alternative fuels? David Pogue has a r...

An imperiled attorney general, an unpopular war, a hung-over housing market and a presidential approval level of 32 percent: White House off...

"GM tries to unplug Volt hype" is not the headline I've been hoping to see out of Motor City this spring. But there it is in...

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....