Plugs and Cars

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. ...

Obama's cabinet is looking very friendly toward ethanol, The Hill reports . Vilsack from Iowa at Agriculture, Salazar from Colorado a...

The announcement that BYD, the Chinese battery giant turned automaker, has actually begun selling its plug-in hybrid, is pretty big news . S...

Think Global, the Norwegian electric car maker, has halted production of its electric City car, generating fears of a possible bankruptcy. ...

There's good news in Jim Motavalli's Greentech report in the NY Times about NiMH batteries in hybrids. The batteries have gotten c...

In Congressional testimony last week, Alan Mullaly, head of Ford, committed the company to developing plug-in cars. Next month at the North...

The Wall St Journal's new glossy mag, WSJ, reports on the rivalry between Tesla's Elon Musk, and Henrik Fisker. A bit of scratching...

The deck of cards, some might say house of cards, that is the American economy is being shuffled. A generation of deregulation has culminat...

Boy, these guys don't make it easy to feel the slightest sympathy for the plight of US automakers. The lineup of CEOs at the Congression...

We first heard about Chrylser's plug-in car plans at the end of September. Less than two months later Chrysler's EV guy Lou Rhodes h...

Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Linda Nicholes, President of Plug In America , took delivery on Wednesday of thei...

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The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. GM’s centennial celebration...

Curbside EV Charging Stations are sprouting in Portland Oregon. Full story here . Hat tip to David W.

The NY Times is reporting that Wednesday morning will see the announcement of a deal that will see Tesla's second electric car, the sed...

Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, ...

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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...