Politics

Canadian electric vehicle advocates can look at the election of Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party with cautious optimism, and not just for the party's promise to install charging stations at government buildings. Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Trudeau's chief policy advisor, played a role in the...

Chian admits to burning more coal than it previously reported.

Gas taxes and tolls don't come close to covering the cost of roads, a new report finds.

When it comes to raw numbers of electric cars sold, California leads. However, just to the north, the small state of Oregon has long been a pioneer and a trendsetter when it comes to electric mobility. Drive Oregon, the nonprofit trade association that has led much of this work over the past few...

Georgia's electric-car sales crashed after the state eliminated a generous tax credit, a new report says.

A new plan by Oslo's city council would permanently eliminate cars from the Norwegian capital's downtown.

Count on the car-dealer lobbyists of America to keep fighting the good fight on behalf of the state franchise laws that protect their members' businesses by making it illegal for you to buy a car directly from a carmaker. And, for that matter, to throw in comments about the supposed consumer...

The Chinese government is expected to enact more electric-car friendly measures in its next five-year plan.

A new report names utilities and interest groups fighting against the growth of solar power.

France will extend an incentive for scrapping old diesel cars to newer models.

Carmakers in Europe, Asia, and North America have met exhaust emission limits for decades, as measured by strict standardized vehicle tests on dynamometers, or "rolling roads." With the Volkswagen diesel scandal now entering its third week, U.S. and European regulators plan to test more cars under...

The amount of fuel saved per vehicle is more important than the fleet average, new analysis claims.

The bad news for Volkswagen just keeps on coming. In the last week, the company has fired much of its upper management, eradicated all mention of its TDI diesels from its U.S. website, and admitted that 11 million diesel vehicles have software that enabled them to pass emission tests while emitting...

EPA chief Gina McCarthy says the agency will make greater efforts to stop cheating.

We're just four days into the Volkswagen diesel-emission cheating scandal, but it's not too early to ask about its ultimate ramifications. The 482,000 VW and Audi cars being investigated by the EPA are a majority of all the diesel passenger cars sold in the U.S. since 2008, when new and tougher...

It was actually introduced to the world last week, but the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid made its official auto-show debut yesterday at the huge Frankfurt Motor Show. A large crowd of journalists from around the world crowded around the covered car, eager to see in person what so far they'd only seen in...

Let's call this one a good news, bad news, good news story. On Friday, September 11, the California Senate approved SB 350, the Clean Energy and Reduction Act--by far the most far-reaching climate change legislation enacted in the U.S. The bill's provisions codify Governor Jerry Brown's goals of...

Federal electric-car tax credits mostly go to higher-income households, a new study finds.

Chinese electric-car sales are increasing, but buyer demand may not be.

Renewable-energy costs are dropping rapidly, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says.