Plugs and Cars

New York Times reports the expected change in federal policy will happen Monday. ...the centerpiece of Monday’s East Room announcement is M...

Survivors Of Gas Station Explosion Mourn Tragic Loss Of Gasoline

The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore's group, has taken another step toward promoting plug-in cars (all electric cars and plug-i...

[©Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post] East Coast - Along the route President-elect Obama rode on his way to DC, electric car activists spell i...

Tesla will be producing battery packs for Daimler's electric Smart, reports Ken Basinger in the LA Times blog Up to Speed . One thousan...

The financial crisis that shut down Th!nk's factory appears to have ended, according to Reuters . The Ener1 Group, the main shareholder ...

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...