Plugs and Cars

There has never been a shortage of stories in the press denigrating plug-in electric cars. Why? Because people naturally, logically believe ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday to discuss the Zero Emission Vehicle regulation and the revisions staff was tasked...

Two items caught my attention this week. Plug In America has a new ally with the announcement of the creation of the Electrification Coali...

Reva, the Indian electric car company best known for the G-Whiz in England, has signed a deal to bring their new product to Iceland with sal...

Nissan has released an official sketch of an electric urban delivery vehicle that looks closer to viable than many EV concepts that have app...

Al Gore has probably been presumed to be a long-time booster of electric cars, but it hasn't always been so. Like many, he couldn't ...

GM CEO Fritz Henderson sat down with reporters and editors from the Washington Post yesterday. No real news on the Volt, but his comments on...

GM recently entered into a 50/50 partnership with Reva, the Indian electric car company, to produce an electric version of the Chevrolet Spa...

Toyota is always saying consumers just don't want an electric car. Range is too short and too much is different about EVs, Toyota conten...

Tom McGhie, Financial Mail reports: The political battle for the electric car vote stepped up a gear last week when the Conservative Party p...

Toyota is knocking plug-in cars at CARB and in the press and touting impossible to deliver near-term hydrogen fuel cell commercialization. B...

Much has been made of late of Toyota and other automakers claims they will commercialize hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2015. Of course, we...

Nissan will start taking orders for the upcoming all-electric LEAF next Spring. And they are building to meet expected initial orders for 20...

Media Matters for America is watching FoxNews so you don't have to. The media watchdog is pointing out misleading reports about the gov...

The MINI-E program is going well enough that BMW is considering allowing leases extensions, Richard Steinberg the program manager said at CA...

The last, best hope of hydrogen and fuel cell for vehicles is down for the count. After grand ambitions and lofty rhetoric, reality has set ...

Norwegian EV activist Leif Egge has become the inaugural user of the first floating recharge station I've heard about. Stena Line is now...

President Obama today announced $2.4 billion for battery and electric car manufacturing and deployment efforts. Green Car Congress has the ...

Huh? Autocar.co.uk is reporting: "Toyota's iQ-based electric car, due to be launched in 2010, will get its own body style to create...

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...