Plugs and Cars

Joseph White, Wall St Journal Detroit bureau chief, is writing about electric cars again , this time about the majors. He's in Tokyo rep...

Popular Mechanics got a look and briefing on Toyota's own plug-in Prius. And they said it couldn't or wouldn't be done. Or it w...

Terry Tamminen, Arnold's green guru, showed up at the Santa Monica AltCar Show in a BMW Hydrogen 7. Mr. "Lives Per Gallon" o...

Forbes 12:43pm ET: Oil retreats from today's record highs around 90 usd as traders lock profits Bloomberg Crude Oil Falls From Record on...

NY Times reports Record Price of Oil Raises New Fears.

Back in May Tesla announced it would be selling batteries to Th!nk Global for its revived City electric car. Seemed a great synergy at t...

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...