plug-in cars

Graphite battery anodes are made using a toxic substance.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say incentives to sell alternative-fuel vehicle in federal laws could potentially create a short-term rise in fuel consumption and emissions from major automakers' new vehicles. Professors Jeremy Michalek, Ines Azevedo, and Alan Jenn studied Corporate...

Tesla will promote the new Chinese national electric-car charging standard, instead of its own Supercharger standard.

What a difference a week makes. In late April, Ford's director of electrification programs and engineering, Kevin Layden, said the 100-mile range of the 2017 Ford Focus Electric would suffice for most drivers. But then on Ford's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Fields announced that the...

When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said two years ago that the electric-car maker planned to be building half a million cars a year by the end of 2020, it seemed an ambitious stretch goal. When he said on last week's quarterly earnings call that the company was pulling that goal two years ahead to...

It's a very reasonable question: electric cars themselves have no tailpipe emissions, but what about the power plants used to recharge them? After more than a dozen studies and five-plus years of plug-in car sales, we know the answer. In North America, an electric car charged on even the dirtiest...

Tesla says it will nearly double deliveries in 2016.

The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is the fourth plug-in car to reach 100,000 sales globally.

It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently. This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. Now, General Motors has said that the Lyft...

Chinese startup Future Mobility Corp. just hired a group of employees from BMW.

ChargePoint and NRG EVgo are getting additional private funding.

After the usual winter doldrums at the start of the year, April proved to be a good month for plug-in electric car sales in the U.S. March was a record-breaking month, and as April results come in today and tomorrow, last month's pace seems to be robust as well. As usual, the two highest-volume...

The Tesla Model S will get the 75-kWh battery option introduced on the Model X.

Nissan pokes fun at Tesla in new print ads.

For a decade now, Tesla Motors has been the "black swan" of the auto industry. It's a California company startup, founded from scratch, using a new powertrain, that against all odds has sold more than 100,000 electric cars and created a brand known worldwide. You can almost hear the grinding of...

The BMW i8 may soon get powertrain upgrades and wireless charging.

General Motors is trying to get as much use as possible out of the current-generation Chevrolet Volt's Voltec powertrain.

Elon Musk says Tesla's fourth-generation electric car will be more affordable than the Model 3.

Tesla may manipulate deliveries to keep more tax credits.

The MINI Rocketman concept may go into production with an electric powertrain.