At the end of this month we'll see a parade of cool concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show. Honda has been releasing teasers of what it'll be showing--interesting stuff that's geared to the changes in community brought on by the rise of ...READ»
No one will buy electric cars if there are no plug-in stations, but no one will build plug-in stations without EVs on the road. That's the conundrum for both car makers and plug-in infrastructure companies. Fortunately, the public ...READ»
As cell phones become ever more ubiquitous, phone booths become increasingly irrelevant. But what to do with the thousands of virtually abandoned phone booths scattered in cities around the world? Madrid's solution is to turn these ...READ»
GM announced Tuesday that the much-ballyhooed plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt will get 230 mpg. At first glance, that's a mind-blowingly high rating, and GM knows it. That's why the automaker's early marketing campaign for the car touts ...READ»
What's stopping electric cars from dominating vehicle sales? Price. More specifically, the high price of EV batteries, which jack up overall vehicle costs considerably. So it comes as no surprise to learn that UC Berkeley ...READ»
In the race to build the first affordable electric car, one company is taking an unusual approach: they're not treating it as a race at all. "We don't want to be the first, or the biggest. We just want to be the best," says Mike ...READ»
The plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt just moved a little further from GM fantasy car to reality now that the first pre-production prototype has gone for a test drive. Until now, the Volt's machinery has been housed in ...READ»
China's BYD Co., maker of the F3DM plug-in hybrid sedan that went on sale to government agencies and corporations in December, will begin selling the car to individual consumers in China in September. The West, however, will have to ...READ»
The XR3 vehicle has been in development for years, but it's now ready to go into mainstream production. And almost as important as its 200 mpg hybrid drive system, the trike boasts sleek design lines. It is, in fact, the shape the ...READ»
A top U.K. scientist says the rush to get electric cars on the road is "dangerous." The scientist, Dr. Richard Pike, is head of the Royal Chemistry Society--an important position with a direct line to the media. He says ...READ»
The Peapod electric vehicle is, "awkward-looking, strange and offbeat," says Peter Arnell, CEO of the Arnell Group--he ought to know, he designed the plug-in car. "It creates the right amount of disruption for ...READ»
Renault just pulled the covers off its technology demonstrator Be Bop Z.E. all-electric car. It's going to tour Europe to show off its cleverness, and its drive train will actually end up in future Renault EVs from 2011 onwards.As it ...READ»
Electric cars are clearly all the rage: a new U.K. start-up company is getting its Bee.One electric vehicle ready, scheduled to hit the roads sometime around 2011. But unlike many other EV cars out there, the One is going to be as ...READ»
During a visit to the Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in California yesterday, President Obama addressed how the $2.4 billion outlined in the stimulus fund to get more electric vehicles on the road is going to be spent. ...READ»
We've talked a lot about future battery technology, but generally the innovations are for products that we won't see for years. Perhaps not so with a new invention from MIT since it's a modification of already ubiquitous lithium-ion ...READ»
Electric and hybrid cars are a sure-fire way to improve transportation's eco-footprint. But it's not cars that bring the most pollution to roads, it's trucks that cross thousands of road miles every ...READ»
While Li-ion battery makers in the US are going cap-in-hand to the government in search of federal aid to keep up with foreign companies, it's been rumored that Nissan and NEC are about to invest around $1 billion of their own capital ...READ»
