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According to the 2012 U.S. Automotive Industry Survey and Confidence Index by Booz & Co., alternative vehicle powertrains may take up as much as 10 percent of the total market by 2020, but only if the federal government continues to support development. Without a helping hand from Uncle Sam, ...

The brand-new Toyota Prius Plug-In has arrived in California, and Toyota wants to make sure that potential buyers know that the plug-in hybrid can be up to $4,000 dollars lower than the sticker price might make it seem, plus other benefits. The new Prius qualifies for the State of California's ...

At a recent event in Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) execs outlined the automaker's "eco-car" future. Within the next couple of years, Toyota aims to introduce numerous alternative-energy vehicles, including 11 conventional ...

Fisker Automotive has delayed the U.S. launch of its Karma plug-in hybrid sedan on numerous occasions, but slight bumps in the road to production have not altered the automaker's plans to secure a deal that will see ...

Can ten years of promoting electric cars be boiled down to 30 seconds? Plug In America would like to suggest that they can, especially if you really mean cramming them into seven 30-second ads (or, to use ...

During a live press conference at the Paris Motor Show, Volvo's newly appointed chief executive officer, Stefan Jacoby, stated that the company's future lies in electric cars. Jacoby proudly proclaimed, "we will set the standard in the ...

A few days ago, BMW launched a web site called dontblogaboutthis.com which obviously means they do want us to blog about it. While the site doesn't contain much in the way of real information, there are several photos and ...

One of the major benefits of plug-in vehicles is the ability to operate without any direct emissions while also diversifying the possible energy sources used for transportation. Unfortunately, that also means that unless ...

When we last heard from Ian Wright, he was working on a battery-powered version of the Ariel Atom known as the Wrightspeed X1. The X1 has been used as a development platform for batteries, motors and electronics, which is what ...

If you take a group of talented college kids and set them loose to re-engineer a vehicle for ultimate efficiency, the end result can look like the 2010 EcoCAR challenge-winning entry from Mississippi ...