Plugs and Cars

Toyota has a go-slow policy on plug-in electrics. Despite having produced the RAV4 EV - the most useful, robust, and long-lived electric car...

The BMW Mini E has hit the streets. Barely one year ago, word surfaced that an electric Mini was in the works. In June about 500 cars were p...

Oregon's House has passed a bill to end the $1500 tax credit for conventional hybrid vehicles on the last day of 2009. After that point...

Toyota pushed its innovative "21st century" car development into full gear in the early 1990s under company chairman Eiji Toyoda. ...

In the wake of Secretary Chu's defunding hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles, Toyota continues its assault on the inevitable plug. They don...

I write a column for the Electric Auto Association newsletter, Current EVents. Here's my June column. The trajectory remains clear, an...

The web is filled with news of Volvo's partnership with Swedish energy company Vattenfall to bring a plug-in hybrid to market in 2012. ...

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 ...