ARPA-E Funding Lightweight Materials for Greener Automobiles
The US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy has made funding available for many projects that could revolutionize energy,...
“Big” Surprise: Big Money Kept Tesla Motors Out of Texas
The Tesla Motors direct-sales model is working well, and the automobile dealer associations are running scared.
What makes Tesla Motors so different? First, the Tesla...
High-Emissions Vehicle Tax Increases 25% in France, Incentives on Cleaner Options Lagging
In an effort to clear the air in France, France started taxing high-emissions vehicles. The gradually-increasing tax is designed to convince buyers to look...
City CarShare DASH Adds Thirty Scion iQ EV to Car-Sharing Fleet in Northern California
Business owners with a green streak, those located at Hacienda in Pleasanton, California, specifically, will be happy to note that City CarShare has added...
Opel Ampera Price Cut by €8,000 in Germany
Chevy Volt's sister vehicle in Europe, the Opel Ampera, has not been increasing in sales. In a bid to increase sales in Germany, General...
Ford S-Max Autonomous Driving Features – IFA Consumer Electronics Show
There has been a lot of focus on autonomous vehicles in the last few years, but development of the technology is complicated and expensive....
Tesla Motors Value and Stock Reaching New Records, $20 Billion and $173/Share
Unique is not always valuable. After all, no one reaches for the one broken pencil in the box. Tesla Motors is both unique and...
One MPG Fuel Economy Improvement is a Huge Dent!
Taking the most popular truck in the US for the last thirty years, the Ford F-150, suggesting that people make improvements to their fuel...
Tesla Motors API Vulnerable to Hacking, Too?
One of the great things about modern hardware and software is its accessibility. For example, I may be writing this from an internet cafe...
Why Automakers are Really Cutting Prices on Electric Vehicles?
There has been a lot of discussion on why electric vehicles sell, or don't, and what can be done about it. The answer, of...
