electric vehicles

Vermonters who drive electric vehicles now have another location where they can charge their cars and it's free for the first year.

No question about it, Portland, Oregon, is an early-adopter market for electric vehicles, and one of the leading EV markets in the U.S

(IEEE-USA) The IEEE-USA Electric Vehicles & Personal Transportation Workshop in Austin, Texas, on March 4 will explore the challenges and opportunities presented by electric vehicles.

The floor of this year's Detroit auto show is awash with electric vehicles, but industry executives are carefully hedging their bets, developing other alternative power sources, too.

In what it is hailing as the largest commitment of its kind, GE will buy 25,000 electric vehicles over the next five years for its own fleet, as well as for customers in its fleet management business.

Electric vehicles could render thousands of companies superfluous, but the suppliers are seeking ways to adjust to the coming changes.

By 2020, J.D. Power and Associates predicts that the global sales of electric vehicles and hybrids will reach 5.2 million.

That may sound impressive, but

Better Place, the high-profile Californian firm working on a new model for recharging electric vehicles, last week pulled off another major coup, inking a technology and financing deal with GE that should accelerate the roll-out of its battery recharging infrastructure.

Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it could invest up to $500 million in Michigan for the development and production of batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles if it wins state tax credits.

Industry officials may be quick to talk up the newest in electric transportation.