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California's Low-Carbon Fuel Rule: A Boon for Alternative Fuels?

California passed the country's first low-carbon fuel standard law yesterday, with a goal of cutting carbon emissions 10% by 2020. The allowable carbon intensity of fuels will lower incrementally beginning in 2011. As a result, ...READ»

Earth Day 2009: Today's 5 Most Innovative Green Initiatives

You've probably heard the refrain "Make Earth Day every day" a thousand times, but the 40 year-old holiday has at least one important use: innovative brand initiatives. After sorting through the muck of press ...READ»

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First Look: Peapod's Minimalist Electric Car

The Peapod Mobility is an all-electric mini-car with a four-person capacity and a grille that seems to smile. Sure, it only goes 25mph with a 30-mile radius, but the uber-cheap buggy will have green enthusiasts lining up to buy in ...READ»

MIT Scientists Build Virus-Powered Batteries for Your Next Electric Car

We've heard a lot of creative ideas for powering rechargeable batteries, but this one from MIT takes the cake. Researchers at the university have genetically engineered viruses to build the positively and negatively charged ends ...READ»

Tesla's Model S Sedan Concept Car Unveiled: Why We Need Even More Teslas

Tesla, the electric vehicle (EV) maker best known for its outlandishly-priced roadster EV, unveiled its newest, the Model S Sedan, this afternoon at the offices of CEO Elon Musk's other startup, SpaceX.READ»

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Digg Founder Kevin Rose Leaks Shots of Tesla Model S

Digg founder Kevin Rose has leaked pictures of Tesla's first mass-market electric car, the Model S, only hours before a working prototype of the car is set to debut in Los Angeles. The $50,000 car, scheduled for commercial release ...READ»

Obama to Electric Car Entrepreneurs: Show Us What You've Got

The electric car industry got a major boost yesterday when President Barack Obama visited the Southern California Edison electric car plant in Pomona, CA and announced $2.4 billion in funding for next generation electric vehicles, ...READ»

Tech Watch: Australian Companies Fund Electric Vehicle Grid

Better Place, a US firm that builds plug-in stations for electric cars, has just landed a $667 million USD deal to build charging networks in Australia’s three largest cities. Like smaller-scale Better Place deals already underway in Denmark and Israel, the Australian charging network will allow battery-powered and hybrid car-owners to charge their vehicles at thousands of locations, or have their vehicles batteries swapped out for faster fill-ups. READ»

Tesla To Build San Jose Factory

GM [GM] may have stolen the future-car spotlight this week by unveiling the final production version of its Volt hybrid vehicle, but in the background, luxury electric car maker Tesla was scaling up. The company announced yesterday ...READ»

Hybrid News From Toyota and GM

With its much-ancticipated Volt due to debut next week, General Motors [NYSE:GM] released a few publicity shots to goad potential buyers' curiousity. The teasers show the new model from three angles: top, grille and tail, and the ...READ»

Tesla Begins Delivery of Battery-Powered Coupe

You might of heard about the list of 1,000 would-be Tesla Roadster owners who had each ponied up tens of thousands of dollars to get their name on a waitlist for the car months ago. Well, those 1,000 people are in luck as of this ...READ»

Plug-In Electric Chevy Volt Will Cost $40,000

Vice Chairman of General Motors [NYSE: GM] Bob Lutz revealed a few uninspiring details about his company's Chevy Volt series of hybrid electric plug-in vehicles today. Speaking to the Seattle Times, Lutz mentioned that the vehicle's ...READ»