PlugInVehicles

The headline above sounds strikingly similar to something we've heard before. Picture Kevin Costner in a classic baseball movie called "Field of Dreams" and we're sure the phrase will pop into your head: "If you build it, he (they) will ...

How does an American town try to appeal to Chinese companies thinking of expanding to the U.S.? How about by making a little video? Lancaster, CA's mayor, R. Rex Parris, gave his review of a recent promotional video the town is going to ...

Our friends at the EVCast aren't afraid to show the plug-in vehicle world their comedic side. From EVCast, the Musical to the Hitler movie clip meme getting the Tesla treatment to finding the, ahem, prototype Aptera, ...

Recently, a report came out of the National Academies of Science that declared the costs for plug-in hybrids were "likely to remain high" while the benefits would be "modest for decades." With such a tantalizing bit of contrarianism, how could it not make the pages of the New York Times? The ...

Just how electric vehicles will change the world is an evolving debate, but one new analysis says that EVs and connected industries could be a $300 billion business by 2020 and create over a million jobs globally along the way. In the U.S., somewhere between 125,000 and 300,00 jobs could be ...

EV business may be booming soon I dropped by the Center for Automotive Research's (CAR) "The Business of Plugging In" conference in Detroit recently and came away with a collection of quotes and ...

Here are five technologies that "could change everything": Advanced car batteries Carbon capture and storage Space-based solar power Utility storage Next-generation biofuels This is the list culled by the Wall ...

The amount of money that the U.S. federal government poured into corn ethanol is legendary. Today, we're left with a floundering ethanol economy and a few happy corn farmers but not an abundance of the biofuel powering the nation's cars. A columnist ...

When the big stimulus bill was passed this week, the number that rose to the forefront was a $2 billion investment for plug in vehicles. But, if you add in all the additional plug-in help for things like infrastructure, the actual plug-in stimulus package is closer to $12.5 billion, according to ...

While Newark moves to implement V2G technology and Austin makes solar panels a good deal, one community is trying to be the "first eco-sustainable city" in America. Reading about the new intentional community called ...