It would make sense for the U.S. Postal Service to switch to electric vehicles to deliver the mail, since the average postal truck drives about 18 miles a day. The problem will be how to make it pay off, either with government incentives or through so-called vehicle-to-grid revenues. That’s the word from a study from [...]

Getting 500,000 electric cars on the world’s roads by 2015 – 1 percent of all the autos produced today – would gobble just 10 percent of the planet’s lithium production each year. That’s more than enough lithium to meet expected demand, say researchers at consulting firm Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), who recently released the fear-allaying [...]

BYD Auto has pulled ahead its launch timetable for the American market, and now plans to introduce its e6 crossover electric vehicle in the U.S. in 2010, a year ahead of its original schedule. BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu also said he is considering whether to sell a larger stake in the company to U.S. investor [...]

Electric Transportation Engineering Corp., which earlier in August received a federal grant for funding electric vehicle infrastructure, received another $8 million from the California Energy Commission to help the rollout. The money will be used to increase the number of charging stations in the San Diego area. Earlier this month, eTec, the Phoenix-based subsidiary of [...]

Electric cars don’t use gas to go.  This results in a zero emission vehicle that saves us harmful pollution, but these cars still need to plugin to the grid to recharge and go.  And since almost half of our electricity comes from burning coal, and we’ll be using more electricity to power our homes and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]