Germany, Electric Cars and Collapse

Germany wants to put one million electric cars on the road by 2020 but is falling a wee bit short – to date there are about 4500 such cars c...

The IBM Battery 500 Revs Up

Although IBM is largely focused on computer science issues, it has labs all over the world that do all kinds of things – after all, IBM is a...

Our Question for UCS: Why not charge your car with nuclear-generated electricity?

Yesterday the Union of Concerned Scientists published a new study about how using electric vehicles could help the U.S. cut fuel costs and ...

Changing Minds in Subtle Ways

Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants you to know: “The rise of automobiles was driven by environmental pollution,” Chu said, explaining that h...

Hokkaido, Repossession, Standardized Cars

There’s talk of turning one of the furloughed plants in Japan back on: The turning point could be the northernmost region of Hokkaido,...

Quick Hits: Electric Cars, Solar/Nuclear, China

What about electric cars ? Plans in Europe call for about 1 million EVs on the road by 2020, and a lot that push centers around increa...

NRG, STP and eVgo

Want to see how complicated business can be? Consider : Nuclear Innovation North America LLC or NINA, the nuclear development company ...

Where Do Your Volts Come From?

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins devoted his weekly column to a critical review of GM's electric car offering, t...

Europe Moves Forward with Electric Cars

The electric car got another nudge—perhaps a significant nudge—towards reality with a new plan from the European Commission to standardize ...

Another Try at Nuclear Energy and Electric Cars

Below we have a quote from the BBC about nuclear energy and electric/hybrid cars. It almost makes the point we wanted, but not quite, and i...

The Fast Lane to the Future with Electricity

EWeek has up a roundup of electric, hybrid or incredibly fuel efficient cars that will be shown at the 2009 New York Auto Show and, presuma...

San Francisco and The Electric Car

We've sort of figured that if electric cars get a full hearing that they will not be plugged into a house socket, even a specialized one...

Imagining a "Better Place" with All Electric Vehicles

From the New York Times : Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the wor...

An All Electric French Jeep

It's called the Tender Scarlette. Read all about it at Hybrid Cars . Of course, because it's French, it might as well be a nuclear ...