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IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
John Voelcker |
How Green Is My Plug-In? The carbon impact of the millions of electric vehicles soon to hit the road will depend on the grids that supply them.   |
BusinessWeek
December 29, 2010
Eric Pooley |
Electric Cars Get Charged for Battle The first serious contenders for a mass-scale electric car are on the road. They've already changed GM and Nissan; will they change the world? |
BusinessWeek
May 13, 2010
Richard McGill Murphy |
Eclectic Electrics With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf hitting showrooms this year, the mass-produced electric car - a century-old dream - becomes a reality. So what are designers dreaming up next? |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010
Steve Minter |
Volt: GM's Four-Letter Word for Hope GM is investing heavily in research, testing and manufacturing facilities to pursue its electrification strategy. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
April 4, 2008
Ben Stewart |
GM Testing Volt's Battery, iPhone-like Dash on Track to 2010 Although still not quite set for prime time, it's easy to get excited about the Volt -- which could be America's first production plug-in hybrid vehicle. GM is now testing two batteries in what amounts to a horse race for the future of driving. |
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. |
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 |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2011
John Rosevear |
Did Electric Cars Just Hit the Wall? Will Chevy Volt battery fires stop the EV revolution before it starts? |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2010 |
The Looming Consolidation in Car Chargers ... and Other EV Predictions Electric cars and plug-in hybrids like the Leaf and the Volt are on the way. Here's how the market will shake out. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2, 2008
John Stewart |
Toyota, Experts See Plug-in Car Trouble: Electric Reality Check With lithium-ion technology finally advanced enough for the world to resurrect the electric car by late 2009, why is the world's No. 1 automaker suddenly questioning its viability? |
Wired
Charles C. Mann |
Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guys Drive The automotive startup world is sputtering to life and trying to jump-start the industry with new ideas, vigor, and technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars of 2009 Electric-drive cars take second place to sheer survival. |
Popular Mechanics
September 16, 2008
Larry Webster |
GM Finally Unveils Production Chevy Volt: First Look (Updated) We've been able to eke out some details from engineers here on its propulsion technology, sale price and that oh-so-iPod-esque interior. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2009
Mike Allen |
Cities Race to Add EVs -- But Can the Grid Support Them? The electric car revolution seems poised to take a dramatic step forward. Recently, a pair of announcements by the mayors of Portland and San Francisco has created a friendly rivalry between the two cities -- each one investing to be the leader in electric vehicle infrastructure. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2011
Evan Niu |
GM and LG Renew Their Vows Two familiar partners get together for a new agreement. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Lawrence Ulrich |
Charge of the EV Brigade 2012 will test the feasibility of EV charging stations |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
John Voelcker |
Battery Czar Denise Gray had to take a city bus to her first job at GM, but now she holds the company's green-car future in her hands |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
David Schneider |
Plug-in Vehicles Proliferate Full battery-electric and hybrid-electric plug-in vehicles will start hitting the streets in significant numbers later this year |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
John Voelcker |
Show Recap: Detroit Goes Electro-tastic! Slammed by the economic crisis, most carmakers showed hybrid or electric vehicles |
Fast Company
April 2012
Jon Gertner |
Why Tesla Motors Is Betting On The Model S Elon Musk's Tesla Motors isn't just an electric car company - it's perhaps the greatest test of Silicon Valley's innovation model. And now is do-or-die time, when everything is riding on a new $50,000 sedan. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Some Electric Vehicles Are Already Dead in the Water Mass-market electric vehicles are big flops compared to high-end competitors. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2007
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries Take to the Road Hybrid electric cars need much better batteries -- and A123, a plucky Massachusetts start-up, says it's got them. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Battery Makers Take a Back Seat at Auto Show Makers of electric cars are looking elsewhere for their power. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2011
Bruce V. Bigelow |
Ford, Chasing Nissan and Chevy, Rolling Out Focus EV Ford intends to differentiate itself from the rest of the EV crowd in a couple of ways. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2011
Lawrence Ulrich |
Top 10 Tech Cars 2011 Automakers double down on technology. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
John Voelcker |
Will Washington Kick-start the U.S. Battery Biz? The United States will need a domestic lithium-ion manufacturing industry to meet its plug-in goals |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
John Voelcker |
Electric Atmosphere at Electric Vehicle Symposium Plug-in hybrid cars definitely on the way, but what about vehicle-to-grid technology? |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2011
Evan Niu |
General Motors Gets Serious About Plug-In Hybrids General Motors has officially confirmed that its concept Cadillac Converj has been approved for production. |
Fast Company
November 2009
Chris Dannen |
Coda's All-Electric Sedan Revs Up U.S. Auto Market In the fall of 2010, the Coda sedan will become the first mass-produced all-electric sedan to hit the roads in the United States. |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Sowing the Seeds of The 'Electriconomy' A thriving electric-vehicle industry could energize our economy, improve our environment and break our addiction to imported oil. But there' s a lot of spadework to be done before EV adoption takes root. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2011
John Rosevear |
Does GM's New Electric Car Matter? It does, but not in the way you might think. |
BusinessWeek
February 12, 2009 |
Start Your Engines Although a mainstream market for electric cars may be a decade or more away, governments and companies worldwide are spending massive amounts of money to gain an edge in supplying batteries for them. Here are some key players. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
November 29, 2009
Barry Winfield |
2011 Chevrolet Volt Pre-Production Test Drive (With Video!) The Volt is still about a year away from production, with an intended launch date of November 2010. It appears to be just as livable, comfortable and quick (and in sport mode much more so) as conventional hybrids on the road today. |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2010
Keane & Green |
Green Energy: Why Hybrids Still Need Government Motors As the next generation of plug-in cars comes online, a decline in hybrid sales doesn't bode well for their success. |
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. |
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 |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
John Voelcker |
Ev Roundup: Electric Vehicles Move Forward...Slowly A Chevrolet Volt update, two tiny Japanese EVs, and even a Tesla lawsuit |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Peter Fairley |
Speed Bumps Ahead for Electric-Vehicle Charging Plugging in cars, even overnight, will strain local grids and could boost pollution |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
John Voelcker |
Plugging Away in a Prius Jonathan Sawyer spent $30 000, and voided the warranty, to add a plug to his Prius hybrid. |
Popular Mechanics
May 1, 2008 |
Top 10 Early Contenders for the Automotive X Prize West Philly EVX... Velozzi Supercar... Loremo LS... Motive Switch... VentureOne... Fuel Vapor ale... Phoenix SUT... Hybrid Tech... Tesla WhiteStar... Aptera Typ-1... |
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
September 16, 2008
Paul A. Eisenstein |
Beyond Volt, Insiders Reveal More GM Plug-in Cars on the Way GM designers and engineers are quietly laying the foundation for what could become a full range of plug-in cars that the company refers to as Extended-Range Electric Vehicles, or E-REVs. |
