A Department of Energy grant to the southeast is going to supply that section of the country with a network of propane fueling stations that will also be equipped to charge electric vehicles.  The $8.6 million in stimulus marks the first time the DoE has given money to help fund refueling stations. The network will [...]

The embarrassing-to-watch spitfight between electric car inventor Martin Eberhard and entrepreneur Elon Musk is finally over. Eberhard, whose battery-powered sports car was delayed by production problems and slammed by cost overruns, filed what seemed a pretty bitter lawsuit against Tesla this summer after he was ousted from the CEO role and replaced by Musk. TechCrunch [...]

GM gets a lot of media attention for the Volt. But the Volt isn’t the only green car GM is making in the near term. The Chevy Cruze, a small car that will be built in the same plant as the cobolt, is a 5 seater that GM says will pass the 40 MPG mark. [...]

Not exactly explained by GM, but the folks over at hybridcars.com have come up with some ideas as to how GM came up with that number. Here are the first 3: More Than Infinity “Under the rational that GM says the EPA applied to the Volt, an ell-electric car such as the upcoming Nissan Leaf [...]

According to the latest reports, it appears that this year’s Frankfurt Auto Show will see the brand new Hyundai i10 Electric Concept which will preview the production version of the upcoming city car. As you may know already, the Korean manufacturer revealed its intentions to build three new models within three years: a hybrid model, [...]

The Fisker Karma, an electric sports sedan with a range extender like the Chevy Volt made it’s debut in Monterey. The Karma has over 400 HP going to the rear tires allowing it to accelerate from 0-60 in less than 6 seconds. It can go 50 miles on a fully charged battery pack before the [...]

The City of Palo Alto and Tesla Motors announced today that Tesla will develop and manufacture electric vehicle components in a renovated building in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto. Tesla, the only automaker that is already producing and selling highway-capable electric vehicles, will lease a 369,000-square-foot facility on a 23-acre parcel at 3500 [...]

Ford Motor Company announced today that it has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that ‘talks’ directly with the nation’s electric grid. This new technology – which builds on Ford’s advancements such as SYNC®, SmartGauge™ with EcoGuide and Ford Work Solutions™ – allows the vehicle operator to [...]

It was hinted earlier that Tesla might join NUMMI in GMs absense.  Tesla needs a manufacturing plant somewhere in California to produce their Model S and the partnership with Toyota would make sense.  So would Tesla like to buy NUMMI and keep the lights on? That would mimic a move announced today, in which Tesla [...]

BMW is working a line of electric vehicles (EVs) to be included in its “Project i” series, a sub-brand of BMW. “Project i” vehicles may even have a separate, non-BMW faceplate. According to an Environmental Leader report, BMW parallels its separating of the energy efficient brands from more mainstream ones to its distinguishing of its [...]