Plugs and Cars

To ensure effective and tough federal CAFE standards for 2017-2025, enviro groups are holding on to the California card - the state's ri...

Think has declared bankruptcy in Norway. Sad. [Source: ElectricAid , Indianapolis Business Journal ]

Think, maker of the Think City, is in trouble, Norwegian business newspaper E24 reports. It's not paid it's bills since February, ac...

I’m sure I’m not the first to say it. China is electrifying. When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was u...

Interesting piece by Katie Fehrenbacher about Tesla and the period of limited revenue that approaches. "... this latest funding undersc...

The Independent reports four workers at the Chevron refinery in Wales were killed yesterday in what is being described as a "tragic in...

A oil spill has been detected, and another explosion occurred, at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, here . How Japan uses public...

Germany calls it quits on nuclear power. Last plant to close in 2022. Today about 25% of Germany's electricity comes from nukes. The U.S...

It seems in Foxland if Obama didn't cause the problem, George Bush found the solution. Check out " George W. Bush -- Father of the...

ClipperCreek, an Auburn, CA based manufacturer of electric vehicle charging equipment, has just announced the shipment of its 5,000th unit ....

Mitsubishi iMievs have played a roll in the petroleum deprived region around Fukushima. New York Times Wheels blog has the story. The pict...

Four electric vehicle charging stations were unveiled today at a new parking structure in downtown South San Francisco. The Coulomb J-plug/...

Once again, charge station serendipity. I arrived a couple of days ago at the parking garage beneath One Montgomery Tower in the LEAF with...

A story on Toyota's announcement that an ordering system for the plug-in prius will be coming later this year prompted me to check out ...

Some more places to plug in. SFO now has 120V plugs available in each of its public parking garages. You'll need to provide your own cab...

The Norwegian energy company Ishavskraft yesterday unveiled its plan to make the stunning vistas of Norway's isolated fjords accessible ...

A few more J-plugs have appeared in the San Francisco Bay Area, tho I challenge you to find out where they are. They are not listed on the D...

The Times has story of the consequences of crop production for bio-fuels: higher food prices and tragic irony. ...last year, 98 percent of c...

[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car?." ]...