Plugs and Cars

Buried in Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. Thi...

Two guys convert an old VW bug.

It was January 2nd this year when oil hit $100 for the first time. Today it reached $140 , and OPEC warns it will only get worse, and soon. ...

News of oil by the barrel and gas by the gallon reaching new highs had been dominating TV and print, so it was perhaps not surprising that t...

Rechargeit.org , Google.org's campaign for plug-in cars, has issued a call for short videos . If you've got one, explain how it work...

Tom Friedman of the NY Times has been hammering away at the bi-partisan disaster that is the US energy policy for years now. One cornerston...

The tide appears to be turning. Electric cars are in the news almost daily. Large manufacturers and startups are responding to changing ci...

Today Barak Obama appeared on Meet the Press. (full transcript here .) MR. RUSSERT: How long before our automobiles are off of gasoline oil...

The Aptera electric car, so futuristic looking it will appear in an upcoming Star Trek movie, is becoming more believable with each passing...

Stefano Paris, plug-in car and renewable energy supporter and renaissance man, has made a video of Plug In America's rally in Sacramento...

Check out today's LA Times piece by Ken Bensinger on CARB Board Member Dan Sperling, here . The UC Davis Institute he heads took in mil...

Check out my snarky AutoblogGreen.com post on Lexus' greenwashing. Quoting myself, Lexus is taking hybrid hype to the next level, the p...

The following guest blog post is by Earl Killian who often blogs at Joe Romm's ClimateProgress.org . Biographical information below the ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CFCP) have become inseparable. The Green California Summ...

Governor Schwarzenegger can expect delivery of his $100,000 electric Tesla Roadster within a few months. His pals in the Old World won't...

Sandia Labs Researcher Ben Cipiti has penned a short piece entitled An Unbiased Approach to Evaluating Transportation Fuels in which he exto...

The Large Volume Manufacturers, the automakers with obligations under the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Zero Emission Vehicle Progra...

Subaru has brought some R1e electric mini-cars to NY. They have a program with Tokyo Electric Power Company that has been testing vehicles i...

Touchstone Energy Cooperatives has made an ad touting its preparedness to deliver electricity whatever needs it in the future. Hattip to Dom...

The expense and impracticality of hydrogen fuel cell powered cars is beginning to dawn on the major automakers. Batteries will do within a f...