Plugs and Cars

So you've finally got your electric car. You're going out of town for a few days and recall a few spots at the airport parking lot t...

Shell has shut three flow stations after its oil pipeline in the Niger Delta was sabotaged. Recent attacks have resulted in $1bn a month in ...

For a couple of years now, the dream ride has been in a Tesla Roadster. You strap in, feel the instantaneous surge of power, maneuver the cu...

West Africa's burgeoning oil industry has a pirate problem. On Jan. 5 Nigerian pirates stormed a Panamanian-flagged Ukrainian tanker, th...

Darryl Siry blogs over at Wired's Autopia. He's pretty plugged in, having worked at Tesla and consulted for CODA. He's a bit sur...

A tanker truck clipped a car. The tanker flipped over and burst into flames "creating a fireball seen for miles." The driver was k...

Two vessels collided in Port Arthur, Texas. As much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil spilled. Some nearby residents have been evacuated from ...

It's official, the Cadillac Converj is to be the second extended-range electric vehicle after the Volt. I may be most interested afforda...

BMW has recognized that they simply teed up GM and Nissan to benefit from the MINI E experience. Today they announced officially that MINI ...

Th!nk CEO Richard Canny and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels slapped a "Made In Indiana" sticker on a Th!nk City this morning in Elk...

The Elkhart IN City Council took the first step tonight toward creating a tax abatement for Th!nk North America to open a plant to assemble ...

Mercedes-Benz's S-Class sedan will offer a plug-in hybrid version when it hits the showrooms, reportedly in 2012, according to Autocar.c...

"Electricity has always been the best way to power a car. They knew that since the turn of the last century." - Jay Leno Source: A...

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...