Earlier this month, General Motors hosted about 90 journalists from around the world to provide an update on progress with the Chevy Volt, an extended range electric vehicle they announced as a concept in January 2007.  On third of the way between announcement and planned launch in November of 2010, the Volt appears to be [...]

On March 17th the Tesla Roadster went into mass production - of sorts - on that day production model “#2″ was placed onto the assembly line at Tesla’s Lotus factory in Hethel England (Tesla press release).  According to a report in AutoblogGreen by Sam Abuelsamid “Tesla Roadster starts production today,” the rate of production will be one car [...]

In previous posts, “Fisker’s Photovoltaic Cars,” and “Photovoltaic Powered Cars,” we have reported on the potential for commuters to power their vehicles with energy collected from rooftop photovoltaics.  But until now we haven’t been able to share some of our spreadsheet analysis with our readers.  While it’s still not possible to include these online interactive [...]