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Guests at this year's International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland got a sneak peek at the future of electric cars. According to Treehugger,...

These new liquid core batteries could make charging your electric car as simple as refueling your gas tank.
The New York Times examines what some cities-most of them in the San Francisco Bay Area-are doing to prepare for this new crop of plug-in cars,...

Lend me some power. I am your neighbor.
In his 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, the director Chris Paine attempted to get to the bottom of the case of the short-lived...
Tesla As evidenced by the flashy concept renderings all over the internet, every established car company out there, from Ford to Rolls-Royce,...
Despite how many times they're told differently, some Americans persist in their belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq....
There are many bad reasons a good idea—the electric car—still hasn't gained traction. Among the thornier issues has been The Charge Problem—or...
Now that An Inconvenient Truth is out, we need a new movie to flog. And we've found it. Who Killed The Electric Car? Who, indeed? We're going...
How will Shai Agassi's heralded battery exchange system for electric cars stack up against the next generation of plug-in hybrids? Not long...

Car-sharing services around the world are starting to embrace electric vehicles.
The WaPo has an excellent story on Who Killed The Electric Car, our new favorite movie. Read it..
Public transit advocates and road warriors have always competed for funding and attention, but now electric vehicles have introduced a sort of...
With the all-electric Nissan Leaf coming out in December, people are starting to think more about the practicalities of owning an electric car....

Prepare yourself for operatic levels of intensity and lots of Elon Musk.

Ford has declared these 25 cities to be best prepared for electric vehicles (but it isn't a perfect analysis).

MIT researchers developed a technique for wireless charging for years ago. Now it could be used for electric cars.
Paris, which already has that Vélib' bike-share program, is now planning an urban electric car sharing system. From Der Spiegel: Paris Mayor...
There's a concern that with electric cars, the batteries won't have enough capacity to let you drive around comfortably and freely without...

A team of Swiss researchers compares the total life-time impact of a gas car and an electric car to put to rest some lingering questions.