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More Tesla Model S sedans are registered in New York state than any other electric car.

The quarterly earnings call held Wednesday afternoon by Tesla Motors is always a chance to hear how CEO Elon Musk views the operations of his carmaking company. But the call following release of the first-quarter 2015 results was a little different. Roughly two-thirds of the allotted time was spent...

General Motors says it won't achieve a previously-set goal for hybrid and electric-car sales.

Access to the carpool lane in California with only a single occupant has proven to be one of the more effective incentives to get the state's drivers to buy electric cars. The first year and a half of Chevy Volt range-extended electric cars didn't qualify, but Volt sales in California surged once...

Sales of plug-in electric cars in April held few real surprises, coming in at about the average rate of previous months. The now-aging Nissan Leaf saw deliveries of 1,553 units last month, bringing the year's total to 5,638 and the total delivered in the U.S. since December 2010 to almost 78,000...

Hybrid and electric car sales began to decline before gas prices collapsed, new data shows.

Tesla acquires an automotive supplier as it seeks to grow electric-car production.

After the New York financial markets close this afternoon, Tesla Motors will release its first-quarter financial results and its quarterly letter to shareholders. The company announced last month, just after the close of the quarter, that it had delivered 10,030 Model S electric cars. DON'T MISS...

It's always good to understand how the huge global energy industry views the worlds of today and tomorrow. At last month's Shell Eco-Marathon fuel-efficiency competition, sponsor Shell Oil provided seminars for attending journalists to explain how the company views the energy landscape from now...

India plans to offer incentives for a wide range of electric vehicles.

With most of the data now in for April sales of plug-in electric cars, it's looking as though the first four months of 2015 aren't seeing notably higher numbers than those of 2014. As always, there's some slop in the numbers because Tesla Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Kia Motors refuse to break out...

Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid production will end next month, but a new version won't arrive until next year.

New tear-down videos expose more of the BMW i3 electric car's secrets.

The Tesla Model S now owns the record for the most electric car sales in Canada in a single month To borrow from the popular song, Canada's plug-in electric vehicle market in March was "all about that S". Based on registration data, which lags by a month, Tesla sold a whopping 250 Model Ses in...

A new Fisker website offers parts support for current owners.

Tesla has been selling used cars online since last week.

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid will be priced from $33,995 when it goes on sale sometime this fall, a GM executive said this morning. The price, which includes delivery, is $1,175 lower than that of the outgoing 2015 Volt. The old Volt lacks the 50-mile range, 41-mpg fuel efficiency, and...

Avis will deploy 401 Nissan e-NV200 vans, and 60 more Leaf hatchbacks.

Tesla unveils its new line of batteries for energy storage.