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 [...]

Shai Agassi, the electric car evangelist, looked haggard but vindicated at the Paris Auto Show last week.  Mr. Agassi, a former software executive, wants to make electric cars a mass-market product.  To do so, electric cars need to carry a mass-market price. He doesn’t think that the Volt will work because it’ll be too expensive. [...]

Chrysler talks about it’s electric vehicles some more.  They estimate that by 2020 at least half of the market will be made up of vehicles that utilize batteries to get better mileage in one way or another.  It could be simply shutting the engine off at stops all the way up to fully battery powered [...]

Last week we got a good look at three electric vehicles that Chrysler intends to produce, with one of them coming into production as early as 2010.  If that happens Chrysler would be right there with GM as the only two makers of mass produced electric vehicles (the Tesla Roadster isn’t mass produced).  That’s just [...]

When does it make sense to outsource key elements of product design and how far do you take it? Chrysler this week announced that it was much closer than most who follow the auto industry realized with the development of its new prototype of electric cars. It’s clear that cars that can achieve 200 miles [...]