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Photos can be deceptive, as any online-dating aficionado will tell you. So it's hard to tell from photographs just how large the lithium-ion cell gigafactory in Nevada that's being built by electric car-maker Tesla Motors will really be. DON'T MISS: Tesla Gigafactory For Electric-Car Batteries...

The Detroit Electric SP:01 production model is changed slightly from the original prototype.

President Barack Obama encourages Americans to buy more-efficient cars despite low gas prices.

Fuel economy and the Tesla Gigafactory make headlines today.

Polish company Solaris and researchers plan a new type of electrified bus.

China ends its export quotas on rare-earth metals.

Governor Jerry Brown proposed an ambitious goal to cut fuel consumption over the next 15 years.

Last September, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval signed a bill granting various tax breaks and incentives to Tesla Motors for construction of its massive battery "gigafactory" outside Reno. Now, photos taken yesterday show that work on the site--empty desert land less than a year ago--is well...

Tesla and Toyota make headlines today.

A video explaining the meaning of MPGe.

There's no denying that SUVs and crossover utility vehicles are popular--and getting more so, if 2014 sales charts are any indication. So the upcoming Tesla Model X all-electric seven-seat SUV should do very well when it finally hits the market this year after numerous delays. Tesla Motors CEO Elon...

Ford applies for a trademark on the "EcoBeast" name, and obvious offshoot of its efficient EcoBoost line.

The Henes Broon F8 series is more sophisticated than some adult-sized cars.

Toyota announced today that it would make more than 5,600 patents on fuel-cell technologies available for use, free of royalty payments, to a wide array of companies in the transportation sector. Those patents include many granted for innovations that led to the production version of the Japanese...

Today's news includes plug-in electric car sales totals and the 2015 Detroit Auto Show.

ChargePoint, which operates a network of public charging stations for plug-in electric cars, announced today that it would offer a home charging station this summer. The ChargePoint Home, as it's logically dubbed, has a sleek modern design--and it's compact, at only about the size of a tablet...

Engineers disassemble a BMW i3 electric car.

With gasoline costing 40 percent less than it did just six months ago--and under $2 a gallon in many states--you might think this would be a good time to discuss raising the Federal gas tax. You would be wrong. The Federal gas tax hasn't risen since 1993, and the U.S. Highway Trust Fund has been...

One week from today, the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car will be unveiled in Detroit. But Chevy has been teasing the new car since August, releasing a partial image here, a powertrain tutorial there, and GM's largest brand did it again yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show...

The Nissan Leaf, which has long been the world's best-selling electric car, has added another laurel to its crown. With December sales of 3,102 units, total Leaf sales in the U.S. for 2014 totaled 30,200 last year--a new yearly record for any plug-in electric vehicle in the country. Since it first...