Plugs and Cars

Mitsubishi plans to show a concept plug-in hybrid at the Tokyo Auto Show. Larger and more upmarket than the all-electric iMiev scheduled to ...

Reuters reports: U.S. auto sales dropped by more than 41 percent in February to the lowest level in almost three decades as deepening econo...

photo credit and thanks to Stefano Paris

Fisker Automotive is running a TV ad in LA. Deliveries of the luxury plug-in hybrid Karma are set to begin this fall. Thanks Stefano for the...

Chief operating officer Patrick Pelata has confirmed Renault is diverting all research and development money away from hybrid and hydrogen t...

Because there are are so few of them, to keep the dream alive fuel cell vehicles need to be schlepped around. CARB and the automakers need a...

To Dr Lyle Dennis, a NY physician, the GM Volt seemed a good idea so he started a website, gm-volt.com. It's become a big deal, althoug...

Harper's Magazine has a profile of an oil fixer, the sort of middleman without whom we don't get our daily dose. It's not a pret...

Nissan is telling Tennesseans that their state will be included in a Fall, 2010 launch of an electric car. The Chatanoogan.com reports on a...

Dan Neil has another must read article in today's LA Times. He heaps praise and digs the grave of Honda's fuel cell marvel. I'd ...

NY Times reports : As recently as last summer, plants that make ethanol from corn were sprouting across the Midwest. But now, with motorists...

Nissan and Tesla are both well on the way to receive loans from the federal government to support their electric car manufacturing plans. Ni...

GM cuts 10,000 salaried workers worldwide, including 3,400 of its 29,500 salaried jobs in the United States.

Nissan has joined the world's automakers with bad news . They'll be cutting 20,000 jobs worldwide. They joined Toyota, posting an an...

The Tesla Roadster made sweet sweet love to Dan Neil one recent weekend. "God has grabbed me by the jockstrap and fired me off his thum...

It was only 13 years ago. Still looks good.

Electricaid.org was created when Th!nk looked to be on the ropes late last year. Now it seems only good news is coming in. They are reporti...

Ford has done it's share of electric cars, including the Ranger EV and Th!nk City that were its ZEV mandate cars in the '90s. The #2...

A large survey, 4000 people in eight countries, has discovered what many of us have been saying all along. There is an existing market for ...

As a part of the new government economic stimulus plan, Norway will be getting a "forest" of charging stations for electric vehicl...