A lot of people thought the Cash for Clunkers program was going to flop.  And there are a lot of good reasons to think so, but the reality seems to point in the opposite direction.  The Prius is flying off of dealer lots along with many other fuel efficient vehicles. The program is so successful [...]

Here at EVW I track news about electric vehicles and report on it.  This isn’t exactly news about electric vehicles, but it is news for the green crowd, and good news for our aging grid. New battery technology promises to store a lot of energy combined with a discharge/recharge cycle that can be run once [...]

Steve Schneider announced that the company has received funding to the tune of $25 million to introduce electric vehicle networks in China. Zap, based in California, manufacturers electric vehicles in China which are then shipped to the U.S. and assembled to be sold. Schneider says that they hope with the money they make from selling [...]

Premium electric car maker Tesla Motors announced Friday that it achieved achieved overall corporate profitability in July with approximately $1 million of earnings on revenue of $20 million. Tesla said profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the Roadster 2, the second iteration of Tesla’s all-electric sports car. The company is currently developing the [...]

Mitsubishi will launch an extended-range (EREV) at the Tokyo motor show later this year, according to reports. Similar in concept to the Chevrolet Volt, the Mitsubishi EREV will be a compact SUV similar in size to the Toyota RAV4. Its drivetrain will be similar to the Volt’s Voltec system, with a 660cc, three-cylinder petrol engine [...]

General Motors Co unveiled plans to launch a plug-in SUV for its Buick brand in 2011, its latest move away from gas-guzzling vehicles in response to higher fuel-economy standards. The new five-passenger Buick crossover is expected to be the first commercially available plug-in hybrid sport-utility vehicle by a major automaker, and would follow GM’s heavily [...]

Today Gm announced the EPA rating of the Volt at an astonishing 230 miles per gallon.  Now we all know what that 23 followed by an outlet ad campaign was for (particularly crafty subtle for GM) this past week. We talked earlier about how the EPA didn’t have a concrete plan for testing this new [...]

Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. and ECOtality Inc. will be getting a $99.8 million stimulus grant and partnering with Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. to roll out an electric vehicle pilot program in Arizona and other U.S. cities. Phoenix-based Electric Transportation and its Scottsdale-based parent company ECOtality were expected to announce Wednesday morning that they will receive [...]

It’s no secret that Chrysler intends to make a Electric Range Extended Vehicle out of their Chrysler Town and Country.  It was one of the three original ENVI vehicles.  The Dodge Circuit will likely be the first out of the ENVI door, but you can bet that the minivan won’t be far behind. Some are [...]

The Department of Energy has a $2.4 billion stimulus fund to give EV car makers and suppliers a boost to help them bring EVs to the road sooner than later.  So if you’re a car maker looking into EVs or a supplier it’s been like Christmas and the DOE is Santa. Johnson Controls, based in [...]