Plugs and Cars

Joseph B White, Wall Street Journal's Detroit bureau chief, takes Tesla seriously and respectfully. His column in Monday's WSJ Onli...

I've long heard rumors of Chinese auto makers developing an electric car. It makes lots of sense, given Chinese battery production. Now...

Another auto maker is suggesting the future is with electric cars. CNet is reporting Subaru will be showing an electric car prototype at th...

Business Green Blog in the UK reports on a plan to install 250 EV charging stations in England. Elektromotive is making a sleek charge poin...

"Automakers get it this time, calling for up to a 40% increase to 35 mpg by 2022, the first increase since 1985. In a business where pr...

Puregreencars.com reports Renault's (and Nissan's) Carlos Ghosn sees electric city cars in their future. Three to four years away, ...

Cnet rep orts "Nissan bets on electric cars, not biofuels." Minoru Shinohara, senior vice president and general manager of the Te...

VW's announced "Up Concept" city cars could have a Plug-in Hybrid version. Autoblog and Left Lane News are reporting VW will...

Check out today's NY Times story Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price. ...the ethanol market is suddenly plagued by a glut, i...

CNet is reporting some good and some not so welcome news about the Tesla Roadster. Seems the batteries are performing better than expected,...

A few months ago I attended an eco-event in Fairfax, CA with my electric car. Someone seems to have videotaped me and posted it on youtube....

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....