Electric Cars

Gas prices are falling: Michigan has signs advertising regular at $1.99 per gallon. It's now below $3 a gallon even in California, which continues to be the focal point for electric-car adoption. Now an electric utility CEO has joined with an environmental advocate to urge that Californians stay...

Toyota's president makes the case for fuel-cell cars.

An owner takes his range-extended electric car on a 462-mile road trip.

Analysis shows the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive has significantly lower lifetime emissions than a comparable gasoline model.

FreeWire believes its Mobi Charger is the answer to overtaxed workplace charging infrastructure.

Electric cars have no tailpipe emissions, but their overall impact on the environment includes the electricity generated to recharge their batteries. The carbon emissions associated with that power vary greatly, depending on the local utility that provides it. Now an updated study from the Union of...

It seems to be a common assumption among Tesla Motors supporters: State auto-dealer lobbyists work with Republican legislators to enact laws banning direct sales of Tesla's electric cars to retail buyers. But is it true? An article last month in The New York Times offers a few data points that may...

California has close to half the nation's plug-in electric cars.

A Tesla Model S P85D drag races a Ferrari in Florida.

Brace yourself, electric-car fans and advocates. It may be a bumpy ride for the next few days. Yesterday afternoon, the Associated Press covered a new study put out by the University of Minnesota that calculates the environmental impact of manufacturing and refueling vehicles with various...

It's called "ICE-ing," and sooner or later, every electric-car driver experiences it. The term refers to a non-electric car with an internal combustion engine (or ICE) occupying a parking space where a public charging station is located. The car is thereby blocking electric cars from recharging at...

There's been a lot of conventional wisdom floating around lately. In this case, it's the notion that electric car sales will plummet with the arrival of vastly lower gasoline prices. We'd suggest that perhaps this is not quite as much of a foregone conclusion as many pundits think. DON'T MISS...

Lexus is intrigued by Tesla's company-owned stores.

Automotive journalists often use each other as information sources, or to get reality checks on new material. Recently, a colleague asked, "If auto journalists had the choice of only driving electric, which production electric car would you purchase--and why?" Which seemed like an excellent topic...

See four special Nissan Leaf electric cars from the first four years on sale.

BMW is calling 2015 the "year of infrastructure."

Nissan and Kia are big spenders on electric-car advertising, but not Chevy.

A new startup looks to break into the electric-car battery business.

It's hardly a secret that Nissan is by far the world's biggest seller of electric cars, and that its foray into the field four years ago was the work of its CEO, Carlos Ghosn. Now Ghosn has laid out the four reasons that he believes electric cars are being adopted--and will continue to do so in the...

The Tesla Model X will be available with an optional towing hitch.