Plugs and Cars

The first consumer with a Mini E lease, Peter Trepp, was interviewed on CNBC. The vroom- obsessed anchor concludes with an erroneous and unp...

Secretary Chu may have acted on the science, but the Terminator hasn't gotten the termination memo. Reporter: Are you satisfied with the...

In Norway, the effort to find a means to get financing so Th!nk can fulfill existing orders for thousands of vehicles took to the streets on...

Looks like GM's imminent bankruptcy will result in the US government holding a 70% stake. NY Times

Peter Trepp in Southern California is the first consumer to take delivery of their electric Mini. The USA Today story begins: "Peter T...

You can smell the PHEV procrastination. Asked by the reporter when the plug-in Prius on display will be available in Norway, he replies: ...

Sounding a lot like Joe Romm in Who Killed the Electric Car. TR: The hydrogen fuel-cell program has been scaled back in the proposed budget,...

Tom Hanks' letter to the editor of the New Yorker about his electric car, a Toyota RAV4 EV. RE: THE ROAD AHEAD A letter in response to P...

Minneapolis will be getting 18 electric cars from Ford, and stimulus funding will be used to install charging points, as reported in the Twi...

Four hundred fifty electric Minis will hit the road in the next few weeks in California, New York and New Jersey. The leasees, who will have...

The New York Times reports: Cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells, once hailed by President George W. Bush as a pollution-free solution for re...

It has been suggested before that it just might be more efficient to turn crops into electricity than biofuel, and here's a study that p...

“I had a surprising call this week,” the author Richard North Patterson told the audience that had gathered last weekend as part of the PEN ...

Yesterday's Financial Times had a great companion piece to the idiocy in today Post. The UK announced a £5000 incentive for EV beginning...

Charles Lane is a member of the editorial page staff of the Washington Post. Here are some gems from his screed against the Volt, and electr...

From an exchange about gas prices between Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Florida Republican Cliff Stearns during a House hearing on the pro...

I write a monthly column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Here's my April column. As March came to a close,...

Honda has pulled the plug on its wholly owned subsidiary Fuelmaker, which made the device for home CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicle refu...

Automakers the world over, large and small, are in the crapper. The financial crisis has hurt those that sell gas guzzlers and electric cars...