Plugs and Cars

Google.org is stepping up to the plate for electricity in cars. Calcars.org has received a $200,000 grant to continue its advocacy of plug...

Martin Eberhard, Tesla Motors CEO, testified at the Senate Finance Committee yesterday. In a succinct presentation, he makes the case for e...

The California Air Resources Board , one of the culprits identified in Who Killed the Electric Car? , was originally charged with reducing p...

The French Post Office, La Poste, is seeking to place 10,000 electric vehicles in service in the next five years. This week La Poste will in...

In the Democratic debate last week, Joe Biden mentioned his legislation to prod lithium battery research for plug-in cars among the panoply ...

The United States uses 360 million gallons of gasoline each day. One tanker-truck load, a mere 8600 gallons of gasoline, exploded on a San...

Three Senators, Republican Orrin Hatch and Democrats Maria Cantwell and Barack Obama are showing signs of getting it. The Electric Drive Tra...

InsideGreentech reports that Toronto Star reporter Tyler Hamilton posted on his personal blog that battery maker A123 Systems has acquire...

UQM Technologies announced today it will supply plug-in hybrid systems as well as all-electric drive systems for Phoenix Motors' sport...

An excellent piece on electric cars by Steven Wickens in the Toronto Star here . Praising his Toyota RAV4 EV, Avi Hershkovitz says, "I...

The Technology Review published by MIT reports on the hydrogen fuel cell version of the Volt announced in Shanghai. The flexible electric c...

In January GM announced the Volt, a smart idea that makes use of the two existing primary energy infrastructures - the electric grid and gas...

An incredible pair of stories in the Detroit news here and here . In one, electric drive is seen as inevitable. In the other electricity is...

There are so many reasons ethanol shouldn't be priority #1 in America's quest for petroleum replacement. I blogged about this previo...

Bob Lutz, GM CEO, sat down to chat with some bloggers at the NY Auto Show, and PODTECH has the video. Well worth a listen. Lutz responds ...

From a new interview in Fortune and his new upcoming book, " Where Have all the Leaders Gone ?": What can the auto industry do? ...

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AP reports: Gasoline futures rose 3.31 cents to settle at $2.1918 per gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Meanwhile, alternative fu...

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...