Everybody’s seen them; homes crammed so close together you can’t park a car in the driveway, you can’t put a trampoline in the backyard, and forget about planting a tree. This is the “smart growth” that Californians are having shoved down their throats, and there’s nothing smart about it. By contrast, in the [...]

Last week General Motors announced they will co-develop a lithium ion battery for their “Volt” electric car in partnership with A123 Systems, one of the leading companies in the world developing these next generation batteries. In the announcement, GM stated “A123 is a forerunner in nanophosphate-based cell technology, which, compared to other lithium-ion battery [...]

A PHOTO GALLERY OF ELECTRIC CARS, FROM
PRODUCTION MODELS TO FANTASY ANNOUNCEMENTS
How can we introduce nine electric car models that exist today or could exist in the very near future? This photo essay is one good manner, and the message the EV industry is sending the world in 2007 is “electric vehicles are here to [...]

Interview with Tom Gage, CEO of AC Propulsion:
AC Propulsion has been around since 1992. Would you say your company is where the modern era of EV’s began?
Alan Cocconi founded AC Propulsion after working on the project that developed the General Motors Impact EV. GM went on to produce and then crush the EV1. AC [...]

We caught up with Ian Wright last week to ask him about his “X-1″ prototype, an all-electric car that ought to be getting a lot of attention. After all, this car has already been around a few years, long enough, for example, to have beaten the Ferrari 360 Spider and the Porsche Carrera GT [...]