Plugs and Cars

Ecotality has a new, unexpected partner in the rollout of public charging infrastructure for plug-in electric cars. BP. Must have taken B...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dozens of tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO troops were torched near Quetta in western Pakistan on Wed...

I'm getting used to hearing electric car announcements. I usually take them with a grain of salt, as in the case of the Saab 9-3 ePower ...

Coda has set the price for its new electric car: $44,900. After the federal tax credit, the cost drops to $37,400. In California, the only ...

GE has taken to the airwaves with an ad for its electric car charging station.

After spending time in the Gulf, the Sierra Club's new executive director, Michael Brune, ponders getting off oil in "Create,"...

The recent Toyota-Tesla announcement regarding a new generation of RAV4 EVs has sparked interest in the originals, here, in the San Francisc...

Coda's got the right idea. Spied atop a gas pump in Santa Ana, California. Tip o' the hat to Al.

Shanghai is a mind blower. Exuberant, flashy skyscrapers dot the landscape soaring above the city's overhead freeways, many claiming the...

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...