electric cars

To say there's lots of political posturing and wrangling around electric cars, plug-in vehicles, and the industry and infrastructure that supports them would be a gross understatement.

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson has agreed to testify before a U.S. House subcommittee about battery fires in Chevrolet Volt electric cars.

The tsunami that Japan experienced this year tossed around some of Nissan’s electric cars. But the batteries remained intact.

At the end of last week we broke the news that Aptera, the company responsible for the futuristic three-wheeled electric car known as the Aptera 2e was closing down....

Plug-ins for electric vehicles are popping up along the Grand Strand. Local car dealers have electric cars to show off.

Michael and Kenny Ham (Digg users) want to protect the world from zombies, expensive electric cars, and a reliance on oil.

Their solution? The ApocalypsEV, a solar-powered dune buggy that's also the cheapest car in America.

Oh dear. No sooner do we hear that UK solar sales are rising due to plummeting costs, than take up of another mainstay of green techno-fix hopes appears to be stalling before it ever really started.

UK sales of electric vehicles fell 50% in the second quarter of 2011, despite a huge Government grant. What's more depressing is that they fell from a truly paltry figure in the first place.

So why are electric cars not selling?

Despite media attempts to conjure a "sales battle" between the 2011 Chevy Volt and the 2011 Nissan Leaf, both companies are selling every car they can manage to get into the showrooms.

For the first time in 80 years or so, major automakers are building and selling plug-in electric cars in the U.S.

Porsche recently took the wraps off its second hybrid model, the new 2012 Panamera S Hybrid, as well as confirming development of an electric sports car and the announcement that a number of zero-emission ‘Boxster E’ prototypes are already running around Germany.