Electric car distributions begins in contiguous states.
In December, the first Mitsubishi i-MiEV was delivered to a customer in Hawaii. That was appropriate as the Aloha State is a test bed for electric vehicles, particularly on …

Agencies create no fewer than 11 stickers for consumer consumption.

Ah, Washington, D.C. The city where bureaucrats huddle and come up with ways to enrich our lives. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway …

Diesel engines are slow, noisy and issue an amazing amount of pollution. Diesel engines are powerful, quiet and cleaner than many gasoline engines.
These two statements are both correct, but they speak of diesels of different …

GCOY award now in its seventh year.
An annual rite of passage at the Los Angeles Auto Show is Green Car Journal’s announcement of its annual green car of the year award. These models, representing a …

San Antonio wins July 2012 event.
The Electric Power Research Institute, event organizer for an international conference that focuses on the technical advances, market research and policy initiatives shaping the future of plug-in electric vehicles, has …

Retailer pulls the plug on its charging station network.
Warehouse retailer Costco is an early adopter of electric vehicle charging stations. They’re also one of the first companies that has decided that these units are not …

Comparing apples with oranges and with pears is just wrong.
With Plug-In 2011 behind us, its time to review one aspect of vehicle electrification that may get overlooked: consumer marketing. I say this because after speaking …

Roadside assistance, EV style.
RALEIGH, N.C. — AAA, the nation’s largest automobile club, has announced that it is offering the first roadside assistance truck equipped with electric vehicle rechargers. This truck will provide level 2 and …

Our time at Plug-In 2011 Conference and Exposition was much too short, although spending 10 hours on Monday at the Raleigh Convention Center and another 14 hours on Tuesday meant that we got to meet …

By Harrison Card
What vehicle electrification does for you.

Electric cars attempt to stress familiarity. These vehicles are designed to be as close to looking like “normal” cars as possible. While they often feature a few blinking …

Noted international conference moves east for 2011.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Plug-In 2011 Conference & Exposition opens today, a four-day event being held at the Raleigh Convention Center in the heart of North Carolina’s capital city. …

Nissan takes the LEAF to the streets.
What better way to introduce your new product than to take it to consumers? That’s something marketing mavens have done for years and is a practice Nissan USA is …

Nissan steps back to move forward.

Vehicle electrification is a challenge for automakers. The technology is available, but consumers are largely spurning hybrids and electric cars, sticking with gas-powered vehicles. Car manufacturers, seeing the enormous costs …

Compact cars provide excellent fuel economy at an affordable price.

The hybrid vehicle market remains weak, far weaker than what some people would like to admit. You can’t blame car shoppers for bypassing hybrids in favor …

First deliveries expected late summer.
DETROIT — Initially limited to seven markets, the plug-in hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt will soon be offered in all 50 states, from the North Slope of Alaska to the teeming barrio …

Raleigh hosts vehicle electrification technology event.
RALEIGH, N.C. — It isn’t very often that an automotive event of national significance comes to the area where this publication is physically centered, but next month we’ll have a …

The federal government currently offers buyers of electric cars a $7,500 tax credit, but that may not be enough to get people to buy a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan LEAF or other eligible vehicle. Legislation introduced …

The start of the conference is still six months away, but organizers are working diligently to ensure that Plug-In 2011 meets expectations. That’s important because the conference, now in its fourth year, has moved to …

On Saturday we ushered in 2011, but as far as the U.S. auto industry is concerned, today is the final day of 2010. Or, at least the last day when sales can be counted for …

Okay, I give in: I’m publishing my Fab 5 auto stories of 2010 based on very unscientific data, but important facts nonetheless. Fab 5 is half of “Top 10” which means my load is lighter, …

Chinese automaker BYD (Build Your Dreams) plans to make its presence known at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit next month. The car company, who doesn’t sell a single model in the …

Britain’s top fleet management and fleet financing company, Lex Autolease, authorized a survey recently which should bring a smile to the faces of green car advocates. The company asked 300 finance chiefs and company car …

The numbers are in: the Environmental Protection Agency has rated the pure-electric Nissan LEAF at 99 mpg for combined driving or 92 mpg city, 106 mpg highway. Those numbers, long debated and anticipated by Nissan …

The People’s Republic of China has been performing a balancing act for much of the past two decades. On the business side of things, the country wears a capitalist face and is open to foreign …

EV Models
Before the year is out, several all-new electric vehicles are slated to make their debuts.  Ford will be rolling out its electrified Ford Transit Connect, GM will formally introduce its much-hyped Chevrolet Volt with …

Vehicle electrification is in the news thanks to recent announcements of the planned launch of several pure electric powered vehicles including the Nissan Leaf, Fisker Karma and the Ford Transit Connect EV. Electric vehicles offer …

I suggest that the people who run the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit hire musician Eddy Grant to launch next year’s show what with the “Electric Avenue” feature making its debut there …

We’re right at the middle of the year which is a good time to take a look at the auto industry and what is coming down the pike over the coming 6 to 18 months. …

It took approximately ten years to sell one million hybrid vehicles in the US, a number that is probably far below what advocates envisioned when the technology began to be mass marketed in the late …