Plugs and Cars

Co-op America has cut through the hype and hyperbole about "clean" cars. They did an excellent issue of their magazine analysing t...

From the pricey ads in national magazines devoting serious space to the Volt to today's announcement about the plug-in hybrid Saturn V...

Along with a host of the filthy, the ugly and the dangerous, Time and Dan Neil declare the EV1 one of the 50 worst cars ever . Had they want...

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. Extracting it is ruinous of the landscape and burning it has disastrous envir...

A few items before I head out to Black Rock City for two weeks. Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar...

Seventeen years ago GM could imagine, and then produce, an electric car. Check out this 13 minute GM video on the car that became the EV1. C...

As I've blogged previously , I want to believe as much as the next guy that the Volt - GM's announced plug-in hybrid - is real. I ...

Dr James Hansen is perhaps the top climate scientist in the country. From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with glob...

Les Goldman wants you to convert (your hybrid.) Easy as 123. So he proposed at the California Air Resources Board ZEV workshop on Tuesday....

Toyota's plug-in Prius comes out of the closet. No translation needed. Take a look. http://toyota.pod.tv/jp/tech/environment/phv/confere...

MSNBC and NBC News have report on plug-in hybrids , focusing on the Volt. But there's some news about Ford, too, buried within. Ford is...

From today's NY Times Toyota to Test Plug-In Hybrid, Rivaling G.M. Toyota said it would provide prototype versions of plug-in hybrid veh...

YouTube Democratic Debate Mon Night at the Citadel: QUESTION: Hi, I'm Stephanie. We're in the Bay area, in my bathroom, because this...

A month or so ago word was Toyota was postponing the new generation Lithium Prius. That seemed to be a hint that Toyota wasn't moving t...

Election blog 2008central.net points us to an unexpected positive and apt analogy to electric cars by a Republican candidate for President....

Green Car Congress reports Toyota to Obtain Permission for Public Road Test for Plug-in Prius in Japan.

The basic question addressed, which appears on the study homepage (epri-reports.org) is this: How would air quality and greenhouse gas emis...

The long awaited report assessing the environmental impact of plug-in hybrids undertaken by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Na...

Thomson Financial reports in Forbes that General Motors Corp unit Opel plans to bring out an all-electric car at the end of 2010. GM's ...

A number of articles about "green cars" worth perusing in Saturday's New York Times Automotive section . Usually devoted to c...