Electric Vehicle News

The Tesla Model S, Motor Trend Car of the Year, is introduced at the 2013 North American International Auto Show, in Detroit in January.

The latest technology and products for electric vehicles will be on display from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday, June 8, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia at the fifth annual Michigan Electric Vehicle Show.

General Motors has added four new solar photovoltaic solar projects to its Warren Technical Center campus located in Warren, Michigan.

It's tough to know for sure how many plug-in vehicles have been sold throughout the US, but if anyone has been keeping count, it's the fine folks at Plug In America .

The smart Electric Drive represents the electrification of smart's popular 'fortwo' city sweeper.

Porsche has introduced the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid sports car, the first of six or more plug-in hybrids coming from the Volkswagen Group.

Cape Town - Government is aiming to drive up demand for platinum by developing hydrogen fuel cell technology, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Thursday.

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A theory developed at Rice University determined that a graphene/boron compound would excel as an ultrathin anode for lithium-ion batteries.

The latest technology and products for electric vehicles will be on display from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m Saturday, June 8, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia at the fifth annual Michigan Electric Vehicle Show.

Mitsubishi has revealed to Digital Trends that it will be returning to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this year with a new all-electric racecar.

Other than range concerns, one of the things that makes consumers most anxious about electric cars is the durability and replacement cost of their spendy battery packs.

A Tesla Model X electric prototype is displayed at the Geneva auto show in March.

Area first responders got some special training Wednesday dealing with modern cars in crashes.

The Nissan Leaf reached an important milestone this week: the hatchback EV hit 25,000 sales in the U.S. market.

Xiaowei Teng, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of New Hampshire, has received an Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy to pursue research that will improve the ability to store energy in supercapacitors.

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Microbatteries are now in a prototype stage that out-perform traditional batteries in all of the parameters that are important to users.

People attending the 2013 Green Transportation Show tomorrow from 12-8 p.m. at the Essar Centre will be able to test drive several beautiful and impressive vehicles.

Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get shared over and over again.