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Fisker Lays Off Workers, Seeks New Government-Loan Terms
The bad news just keeps on coming from electric-car startup Fisker Automotive. The company said today that it has laid off employees and contractors at both its new Anaheim, California, headquarters and its assembly facility in Wilmington, Delaware. Layoffs by car companies are hardly new, but...
Fisker's Federal Fiasco: Loans, 20-MPG Electric Cars, Shoddy Reporting
Today, if the news cycle cooperates, ABC News will air a segment on its Nightline program that looks at Fisker Automotive--makers of the 2012 Karma plug-in luxury sport... October 25, 2011 by John Voelcker 28
DoE Says Electric Cars Crucial To Cutting Dependence On Oil
Electric-car advocates spend a lot of time touting the advantages of driving on plug-in power rather than burning gasoline. Sometimes, it can be a lonely battle. But now the... September 28, 2011 by John Voelcker 7
Las Vegas Gambles On Chevrolet Volt For City Fleet
Las Vegas is better known for its excess than its frugality, but city bosses are turning that image around by trialling a fleet of electric cars, the first of which is GM's... August 31, 2011 by Antony Ingram 2
TomTom Integrates Coulomb's Charging Map: We Have Concerns
Consumers and automakers both know that range anxiety is a huge barrier standing between shoppers and electric vehicles. But soon, EV owners will have yet another tool in... July 19, 2011 by Richard Read 3
Earthquake To Delay U.S. Assembly of Nissan Leaf Electric Cars?
By far the most ambitious plan to build and assemble electric cars in the U.S. comes not from General Motors or Ford, but from Nissan. Now, it may happen a little later than... June 21, 2011 by John Voelcker
New Chrysler Engine To Burn Gas And Diesel--At The Same Time
You probably drive a gasoline car. And surely you've heard of cars with diesel engines. But how about a car with an engine that burns both fuels, at the same time? That's... June 6, 2011 by John Voelcker 3
DoE's Chu Hopes Chrysler Can Play With Big Kids, Get Loans At Last
Well, looks like Chrysler is getting closer to playing with the big kids at last. The back-from-bankruptcy third U.S. automaker, now effectively controlled by Italy's Fiat... May 17, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
China In 2050: 350 Million Vehicles, Many Electric Cars...And Gasoline Exports?
The big unknown in global efforts to reduce carbon emissions is China. It is industrializing at a rapid pace, and a burgeoning middle class has savings galore to spend on its... May 2, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
Txchnologist: 1 Million Electric Cars On U.S. Roads By 2015?
Earlier this month, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu stood in the rain before a row of electric cars parked on the median at the Department of Energy's massive complex in... April 29, 2011 by Margaret Sullivan 5
You'll Pay $700 More For Gasoline This Year (If You're Average)
According to the Department of Energy, the average U.S. household will pay $700 more for gasoline this year than it did in 2010. In a weekly review of the oil market, the... March 10, 2011 by John Voelcker 6
Is One Million Electric Cars By 2015 Too Ambitious?
In a renewed push for clean energy, President Obama called for one million electric cars to be on American roads by 2015 last month. But is that goal realistic? The... February 17, 2011 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat 17
GM Says More Government Money Not Needed--Though Rivals Took It
Well, give them credit for resolve, anyway. General Motors said today it was withdrawing its applications to the U.S. Department of Energy for $14.4 billion of low-interest... January 27, 2011 by John Voelcker 8
2011 Nissan Leaf Laurels: Euro Car of the Year, U.S. Cell Plant Underway
Initial deliveries of the 2011 Nissan Leaf battery electric car have been fitful, compared to hundreds of Chevy Volts sold each week. But Nissan's first modern mass-produced... January 26, 2011 by John Voelcker 1
Struggling Startup Carmaker V-Vehicles Names CEO, Renames Itself
Startups are hard. Automaker startups may be harder. But one of the necessary qualities in startups--tenacity--was on display recently from Next Autoworks. New name, new CEO... October 18, 2010 by John Voelcker 1
A123 Spin-Off 24M Lands $16M To Explore Next Frontier Of Batteries
Last week, advanced battery company A123Systems announced that it was spinning off a new venture called 24M Technologies, which would focus on more unorthodox energy storage... August 17, 2010 by VentureBeat's GreenBeat
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