Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, might be working hard to ensure that the oil-producing nation becomes more environmentally friendly--but that hasn’t stopped its state-owned utility company from selling its 7 percent stake in Californian electric automaker Tesla Motors...
Things aren’t easy for boutique automaker Fisker these days. First, a Karma manufacturing defect prompted a battery-related recall, which was quickly followed by a... April 5, 2012 by Kurt Ernst 11
Yesterday, we got a brief glimpse of Infiniti's four-door sedan concept car; today, we have all the details of the Infiniti LE Concept. The four-door, all-electric sedan... April 5, 2012 by John Voelcker 15
At auto shows, sometimes cars get uncovered before their official unveilings. The car you see here is Infiniti's Zero Emission Concept, a four-door sedan that will be... April 4, 2012 by John Voelcker 10
Buoyed by record monthly sales of its Chevy Volt hybrid electric plug-in car in March, General Motors will resume production of the Volt at the Detroit Hamtramck plant one... April 4, 2012 by Talking Points Memo 13
Despite the travails of Fisker Automotive, it's safe to say this: Henrik Fisker knows how to design striking cars. The Fisker Atlantic unveiled last night is a stunning... April 4, 2012 by John Voelcker 3
Electric cars have some clear benefits over combustion-engined equivalents--zero local emissions, inexpensive "refuelling", luxury-car levels of refinement from silent... April 4, 2012 by Antony Ingram 16
Car sales overall continued their upward trend last month, but sales of plug-in cars soared in March to more than 3,800 units. The bulk of those sales came from a resurging... April 3, 2012 by John Voelcker 49
You may have heard and read more than you want to on the media distortions and lousy reporting about the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car. Former GM product czar... April 2, 2012 by John Voelcker 20
Possibly the most exciting electric cars to appear over the next few years are from BMW. The German maker's electric i3 subcompact and i8 plug-in hybrid supercar have whetted... April 2, 2012 by Antony Ingram 11
The big worry for battery electric cars is range anxiety, so what better way to shake up that thinking than by driving one cross-country? That's the idea behind a growing... April 2, 2012 by John Voelcker 8
With Fisker's Karma already on the market and in the hands of customers, all eyes have turned to Fisker's 'Project Nina', a car to slot below the Karma in Fisker's range. And... April 2, 2012 by Antony Ingram 12
Major evolutionary change takes a long time. That's as true for electric cars as for opposable thumbs--though it will be measured in decades, not millennia. We frequently... March 30, 2012 by John Voelcker 67
UPDATES, April 11, 2012: Since this article was published on March 30, we've received the following updates: This morning, Mission Valley Ford received a truckload of 10... March 30, 2012 by John Voelcker 24
We're all time travelers, really. The thing is that we only move in one direction, and--in real time--very slowly at that. If you fancy the idea of zipping forward in time to... March 30, 2012 by Michael Thwaite 1
In terms of renewable energy, you have to give credit to the first person who thought of using excrement as a source of fuel. At the risk of dragging things down to... March 30, 2012 by Antony Ingram 5
