Plugs and Cars

Toyota will be showing a battery electric car - the 50 miles range FT-EV - in Detroit. But before you get too excited, Irv Miller, Group Vi...

Occasionally a RAV4 EV sells used on the open market. Yesterday one sold at auction for $32,600. Why so low, some bloggers are asking? Wh...

More Japan/France cooperation on the EV front. Mitsubishi will be supplying electric cars to French automaker Peugeot, as reported in Forbe...

It's one thing to read about a Prius powering a home during a blackout. Check out this video showing an unexpected benefit to the torc,...

Just a the coal companies go on the air with ads that could be Obama campaign commercials, down to the Yes We Can (make coal clean,) the rea...

A bit more information today on Toyota's small EV. The message, from spokeswoman Jana Hartline, is don't expect more information. Th...

The press release couldn't be shorter. TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 22 -- Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. will display a battery electric veh...

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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