Plugs and Cars

Steve Jobs just showed off the Nissan LEAF on the new iPhone at Apple's Developer's Conference in San Francisco. He displayed the ad...

"In an interview with The Chronicle, Musk said the new alliance would produce a joint Toyota-Tesla car that would be a Toyota vehicle p...

This is a big deal. Biggest EV news since Carlos Ghosn got religion. I just watched the press conference where Musk and Toyoda announced an ...

VW has released some more information on its electric plans. Look for an e-Golf to be launched in 2013. 93 mile range from a 26.5 kWh lithi...

“I wouldn’t say it has failed yet,” said Doug Suttles, the operating officer for exploration and production for BP, the company that was lea...

"The US military has joined efforts to stop an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico as fears rise about its scale." The oil rig disaste...

Government officials said late Wednesday night that oil might be leaking from a well in the Gulf of Mexico at a rate five times as large as ...

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 ...