Plugs and Cars

The French government's Ministry of Ecology has instituted a CO2 based "feebate" scheme. Low emission vehicles will receive a...

John Voelker has posted from EVS23 for IEEE's Spectrum, and he ain't writing about fuel cells. Except to point out that Honda's ...

It's a shame the video on TMZ.com doesn't include the reporter's voiceover, because the narration I heard when the story aired ...

GM-Volt.com is reporting on battery announcements at EVS23. Both A123 and LG Chem/Compact Power have delivered packs to GM for testing in ...

IEEE Tech Talk's John Voelker's report is titled EVS-23: A Surge of Energy for Electric Cars . It is a first comment on the palpa...

Good news from Norway. Automotive News (subscription required) reports: Think Global has launched production of an electric minicar for Eur...

Edmunds Inside Line 's Alistair Weaver interviewed Wolfgang Hatz, the head of powertrain for the entire Volkswagen Group. The title of t...

London could soon replace California as the electric car capital of the world. Thanks in large part to Mayor "Red Ken" Livingsto...

NY Times late Wednesday: Oil prices flirted with the symbolic $100-a-barrel level in overnight trading. Crude oil futures briefly rose abov...

In the Wall Street Journal Online, The Informed Reader , Andy Grove, onetime CEO of Intel, discusses corporate "cross-boundary disrupt...

US News and World Report interviews GM's Bob Lutz. So of all the different technologies GM is working on, how would you prioritize them?...

The op-ed in today's LA Times (We Need Voltswagens in the print edition; Bring back the electric car online) deserves attention from ...

Aftenposten TV news clip of the new Th!nk City here including shots of the assembly line and interview with CEO Jan Olaf Willums. The repo...

The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) monthly meeting today included the adoption of the State Alternative Fuel Plan . The analy...

Associated Press is reporting out of Paris (via Forbes.com) that Renault is "studying a possible plan to build a manufacturing plant f...

Bob Lutz of GM is in LA. He's meeting with journalists and electric drive advocates. The first report I've seen from the LA Auto S...

The IEEE Spectrum Magazine for November 07 touts on its cover "Battery or Fuel-Cell Cars? A California Cabal Will Decide." Inte...

One 11am EST AP report in the NY Times •U.S. oil supplies fell last week for the third straight period..... •Stockpiles of gasoline also dr...

Another sign that fuel cells for cars are history. Ballard Power systems, long time fuel cell hot shot, wants out of the automotive fuel cel...

As the price per barrel goes beyond $97, one story in the NY Times reports : •Bombing in Afghanistan kills 64. •Attack on pipeline i...