Plugs and Cars

With friends like these..... The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has proposed what could be a huge roadblock to the further implement...

"The oil rig off the southeast coast of Louisiana where an explosion occurred Tuesday night has collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico, a Co...

Robotic devices monitoring the deepwater well where a giant oil rig exploded and sank last week have discovered oil leaking from the well, a...

Beyond Petroleum? An explosion Tuesday night on an oil drilling rig off the coast of southeast Louisiana left at least seven people critical...

Small patches of oil were seen Sunday from a coal-carrying ship that ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.... Authorities fear ...

An explosion and fire at a Washington state oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing five people an...

A motorist today died today after his car caught fire on a petrol station forecourt, police said. Firefighters said the "flash" fi...

The Nissan LEAF, the first all-electric car to be mass marketed by a major automaker, will come in around $25,000, with help from the feder...

Robert Llewellyn is a Brit with a keen interest in electric cars who is one of those leasing a Mitsubishi iMiev this year. He's got a gr...

In 2001 I began driving an electric car, obtaining the last of the ZEV mandate-required EVs. As I got turned on to the benefits and techno...

VoteVets.org has a campaign to highlight the true cost of our oil addiction. Yet another argument for plug-in 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 ...