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GM Bets On Cheaper Electric-Car Batteries With Envia, Invests $17 Million

Riding high on a bout of good press of its Chevy Volt, GM is putting $7 million into its next big bet on electric cars: cheaper, higher-energy batteries. In his state of the union address yesterday, President Obama called for the U.S. to be the first country to put one million electric cars on the...

January 28, 2011 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat 7

Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid Wagon Coming At Geneva Motor Show

January 27, 2011 3

2011 Nissan Leaf Laurels: Euro Car of the Year, U.S. Cell Plant Underway

January 26, 2011 1

Leasing And Swapping Electric-Car Batteries: Will It Happen?

January 24, 2011 15

Question: How Do Electric Cars (Volt, Leaf) Heat Passengers?

Another in our irregular series of answering questions from readers, this one from John Q of Eugene, Oregon: Question: I was wondering how an electric car provides heat and... January 20, 2011 by John Voelcker 9

DBM Energy’s Electric Audi Destroyed in Fire, Cause Unknown

The converted Audi A2 electric car which hit the headlines back in October last year by apparently driving 375 miles on a single charge has been destroyed in a warehouse fire... January 18, 2011 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 7

Battery Wars: General Motors Licenses American Argonne Tech

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Actually, no--fairly recently and not so far from home, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory patented a... January 12, 2011 by Antony Ingram 3

BYD e6 electric crossover, Electric Avenue, 2010 Detroit Auto Show

2012 BYD e6 Electric Crossover To Cost $35,000, 200-Mile Range

Later today at the Detroit Auto Show, Chinese carmaker BYD will take the wraps off a new incarnation of the e6 crossover it's shown twice before. This time, however, it comes... January 10, 2011 by John Voelcker 4

Ford C-Max Hybrid, first revealed at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show

2011 Detroit Auto Show: Ford C-Max Hybrid & Energi Plug-In Concepts

While Toyota dominates global hybrid production, Ford was the first company to launch a hybrid SUV: the Ford Escape Hybrid, in 2004. Now, Ford is pioneering another hybrid... January 9, 2011 by John Voelcker 2

2012 Ford Focus Electric launch, New York City, January 2011 - Nancy Gioia

2012 Ford Focus Electric NYC Debut: What You Need To Know

As you may have seen by now, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric was officially launched today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by Ford CEO Alan Mulally. At the very... January 7, 2011 by John Voelcker 1

GM To Use Argonne National Lab Advances In Next-Gen Volt Battery

General Motors announced today that it has licensed lithium-ion battery technology developed at Argonne National Laboratories, the research institution that's funded largely... January 6, 2011 by Bengt Halvorson

ActaCell prismatic lithium-ion battery cell

ActaCell Nabs $3 Million For Cheaper, Better Hybrid Batteries

Recently, we wrote about the move in the private sector to use electric and hybrid delivery trucks. Companies like FedEx and Frito Lay are tapping into benefits of greener... December 31, 2010 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat

Crushed GM EV1s - Screenshot, Who Killed The Electric Car?

Could Rising Commodity Prices Kill (Or Hurt) The Electric Car?

At the time of this writing, oil has sprinted above $90 a barrel, silver has jumped 80-plus percent in the last year and China just announced an 11 percent decrease in... December 31, 2010 by Jason Hendler 12

Toshiba Li-Ion Batteries To Appear In Honda's Electric Car

Following years of claims they weren't interested in developing a battery-electric vehicle, Honda backtracked earlier this year and decided that they would produce one, with... December 21, 2010 by Antony Ingram 3

2012 Tesla Model S All-Electric Sedan: Progress and Schedule

It's been a while since we checked in on the car that will likely make or break Silicon Valley electric-car startup Tesla Motors: the Model S, a five-door midsize sports... December 17, 2010 by John Voelcker 13

Next-Gen Electric Car Batteries Only Five Years Away?

There has undoubtably been a lot of work put into battery technology in the last few years as more and more electric vehicles hit the scene. One of the current trends is to... December 13, 2010 by Antony Ingram 4

First 2011 Chevrolet Volt built on production tooling at Detroit Hamtramck plant, March 31, 2010

GM Doubles Down on Electric Cars, Will Hire 1,000 Engineers For Them

It doesn't really matter whether GM sells the first Chevrolet Volt electric cars at a loss or not. The company announced yesterday that it plans to hire 1,000 new engineers... December 3, 2010 by John Voelcker 5

2012 Honda Fit EV electric car concept, launched at 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show

2010 LA Auto Show: 2012 Honda Fit Electric Car, World Debut

This afternoon, Honda unveiled its plans for an all-electric version of the Honda Fit subcompact hatchback to be launched globally in 2012. The announcement came at the 2010... November 17, 2010 by John Voelcker

Portable diesel-powered 440-Volt quick charger for Nissan Leaf electric cars

How Does Nissan Recharge Some Leafs? With A Diesel Generator

We love it when people send us photos. Especially photos of things that manufacturers aren't necessarily keeping front and center for the cameras. The photo here is a "range... November 15, 2010 by John Voelcker 4