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Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2007
Ben Stewart |
GM Goes Beyond Hybrid: Chevy's Electric Car Big news from the Detroit auto show, with video: General Motors has a 100-mph, all-electric entry into the market for hybrid 2.0.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 15, 2008
Daniel Krach |
Living With Hydrogen, Gas Prices Become Incentive for Progress Getting to a future of hydrogen-electric hybrids that will wean us from gasoline for good will require more battery and fuel cell research and convincing Americans that $4/gallon gas can be a good thing. |
PC Magazine
August 16, 2006
Errol Pierre-Louis |
Tesla Unveils The Electric Roadster The feeling, and drivetrain, was electric when Tesla Motors unveiled the Tesla Roadster in July. |
Outside
April 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Detroit Takes Charge Electric cars are poised to make a comeback and this time they might stick around for good. |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2008
Chuck Tannert |
Inside Plug-in Car Tech's Race to Production (and Top 10 Rides) Big automakers and promising startups say electric vehicles are coming as soon as next year, but there's a lot of work to be done by scientists before lithium-ion batteries are ready for mainstream hybrids. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Mike Allen |
How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels. |
PC Magazine
July 11, 2007
Bill Howard |
Ford's 80-MPG Hydrogen Hybrid Ford's new Hy-Series hydrogen-electric hybrid car will save you money by achieving 80 miles per gallon. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
David Noland |
Who's Killing the Electric Plane? Even as the federal government jump-starts electric cars with $2.4 billion in research funds, electric airplanes are getting held back. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars of 2009 Electric-drive cars take second place to sheer survival. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2008
Daniel Krach |
In Gas-to-Hydrogen Switch, Forget Ponies and Embrace Silence A comparison of GM's hybrid prototype Chevy Equinox to a Prius and a Jeep Grand Cherokee. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
John Voelcker |
Chevy Volt Sparks a Series of Plug-in Hybrids Expect many new plug-in cars to use the gasoline engine only as an extra battery |
BusinessWeek
July 16, 2009
Rowley & Hall |
A Future Shock for Electric Cars? This summer marks a milestone in green motoring. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Motor will soon start selling its $48,000 electric minicar, the i-MiEV, beating out Subaru, Nissan Motor, and China's BYD Auto, all of which have designs on the electric-car market. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2009
Jack Ewing |
Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway Advances in fuel-cell technology and a commitment from the German government to build a fueling network mean automakers haven't given up on hydrogen. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Michael Belfiore |
How Better Place's Robotic Battery Swap Stations Work It takes more than just a vehicle to convince consumers to adopt electric cars. Recharging their batteries has to be as easy as filling up a tank of gas. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2011
John Petersen |
Distinguishing HEV Efficiency From Plug-In-Vehicle Waste The problem with plug-ins. Regardless of chemistry, advanced batteries are terrible things to waste because they require prodigious inputs of scarce mineral resources and are difficult to recycle economically. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Bill Howard |
Mediocre to the Core The Vue Green Line represents General Motors' good-faith effort to do something nice for the environment. |
Popular Mechanics
October 16, 2009
Andrew English |
Test Drive: Volvo V70 and C30EV Show Battery-Powered Promise Rather than go for a traditional hybrid, where Toyota's Prius has an almost unassailable lead, Volvo is choosing to leapfrog into plug-in technology with a diesel engine. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries On The Way For Hybrids In just one year, the whens and wheres of lithium battery packs for hybrid and electric cars have come into much sharper focus |
National Defense
February 2009
Frodl & Manoyan |
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries for Hybrid Cars Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007
John Voelcker |
Electric Power Steals the Show The annual Detroit Auto Show offered a feast of technology, and the best dish of all was an electric-drive concept called the Chevrolet Volt. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2004
John Teresko |
Fuel Cell Hybrid Scoots To Market Parker Hannifin helps Vectrix bet on a hybrid fuel cell/electric scooter. Introduction date: 2006. |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010
Steve Minter |
Charged Up About Electric Cars Household names and newcomers alike are racing to develop cars that offer freedom from the gas pump. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Susannah Patton |
Bye-Bye Batteries Imagine chatting on your cell phone for months at a time without recharging it. Or taking a laptop on a weeklong business trip without a battery or power cord. That's the goal of scientists around the world working to perfect tiny fuel cells using microtechnology engineering. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008 |
Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels The market has never looked better for alternative fuels and electric vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
October 22, 2007
Ben Stewart |
2009 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Prototype: Test Drive Toyota may be the first to market with a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. |
Metropolis
April 2007
Michael Silverberg |
Deconstructions: Ford Airstream Concept Vehicle A hydrogen-electric prototype out of Detroit brings fuel cells closer to the U.S. auto industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Take This Car And PLUG IT Customer-modified hybrids can be propelled exclusively by their electric motors for, in some cases, more than 30 kilometers without their gasoline engines ever turning on. The factory-built Prius can run on electricity only, but for just a kilometer or two. |
IndustryWeek
June 17, 2009
John Teresko |
Toyota's Newest Hybrid Sales of the diesel hybrid lift truck are scheduled to begin in December, in Japan. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
David Welch |
General Motors: Who Needs Hybrids? If concept cars are any indication, then General Motors Corp. is ahead of its rivals in the race to build hydrogen-powered vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
April 14, 2008
Mike Allen |
Why Detroit Should Build a Plug-in Car With Generators Onboard Imagine a mass-market electric vehicle that can get you can get where you need to be, gas-free. |
Popular Mechanics
April 23, 2009
Larry Webster |
7 Geeky Tech Designs from the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress Every year automotive engineers from around the world converge on Detroit for a four-day summit. While few companies display the real gee-whiz stuff, there's still plenty of cool new tech. Here are some favorites. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2010
Michael Kanellos |
Ethanol or Electric Cars? The Debate Isn't Over, Says GM General Motors makes the Volt, but ethanol will be a big part of the strategy, too. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007 |
Ford's Hydrogen Record Setter: How It Works (with Video) In 2005, students at the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research approached Ford Motor Company about collaborating on a hydrogen fuel cell car capable of setting a land speed record. The automaker jumped at the opportunity. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009 |
Why Plug-Ins Will Make (Dollars and) Sense Q&A with the electric power research institute's Mark Duvall. |
Technology Research News
May 18, 2005 |
Catalyst Boosts Gasoline Fuel Cells Researchers have come up with a catalyst layer that can be put over a conventional anode to reform the fuel within the fuel cell. This allows hydrocarbons like gasoline to be used directly in fuel cells. |
Popular Mechanics
October 22, 2009
Larry Webster |
Nissan's CEO Makes the Case for EVs at 2009 Tokyo Motor Show Carlos Ghosn predicts that EVs will make up 10 percent of new-car sales by 2020. To meet this anticipated demand, Nissan partnered with NEC to engineer the lithium-ion battery pack. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Erin Scottberg |
How to Make 4 Alternative Fuels at Home: Goodbye, Big Oil! Home recipes for ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hydrogen with new technologies |
Popular Mechanics
September 17, 2009
James Tate |
Top 8 Next-Gen, Alt Fuel Cars at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show What consumers can expect in the next few years as alternative energy cars are developed. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
John Voelcker |
Alt Fuels Rule at British International Motor Show Returning to London after 30 years, the auto show touts technology to raise fuel economy and lower carbon emissions. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars Electric cars are back: Tesla 2007 Roadster... Honda FCX/Concept... GMC 2008 Yukon Two-Mode Hybrid... Fiat: 2007 Siena Tetrafuel... Volkswagen 2007 Golf GT TSI... Chrysler 2007 Sebring... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
May 28, 2009
Frank Weber |
Can GM Make Electric Vehicles Relevant? Analysis Electric vehicles aren't simply for niche markets; they are the future of a sustainable global automotive industry. |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
Alex Planes |
America's Sad Love Affair With the Electric Car The biggest letdown is still under the hood. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009 |
Why the Chevy Volt Doesn't Add Up Plug-in hybrids with big batteries, like the Chevy Volt, may never save consumers any money. |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Winfried W. Wilcke On Building A Bigger Battery For The Electric Car Winfried W. Wilcke uses nanoscience to boost the storage capacity of electric-car batteries while keeping them lightweight. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Ford Escape The hybrid version of Ford's Escape, the best-selling small SUV, is a four-cylinder vehicle that performs like the Escape V-6. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
John Voelcker |
Detroit Auto Show: Diesels Turn Green and Eco-Friendly Hybrid cars took a backseat to diesels, and GM went on an eco-offensive, but pickup trucks were still the big deal at the Detroit auto show |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008 |
Slideshow: London Motor Show Highlights London Motor Show 2008: Held at the Modern Excel Exhibition Center in London's Docklands Area, the 2008 British International Motor Show Was a Cheerful Mix of Green Cars and Supercars. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Bill Howard |
Chevy Volt: Short-Haul Electric, Long-Distance Hybrid At the North American International Auto Show in January, GM took the wraps off the Chevrolet Volt. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
John Voelcker |
Driving GM's New Hydrogen Car The radical thing about Chevy's hydrogen concept car is how normal it feels to drive. Outside, the Sequel is a sleek, stylish SUV. But underneath, it has little in common with today's cars beyond wheels and tires. |
