The U.S. may have cut funding for hydrogen fuel cell research, but that doesn’t mean that hydrogen powered vehicles are done. Norway recently finished building its first hydrogen highway. The HyNor project is a 580 stretch from east coast to west starting in Oslo and ending in Stavanger with 12 hydrogen filling stations along the [...]

Chrysler, who filed for bankruptcy protection two weeks ago, announced today that they plan to cut a quarter of its 3,200 U.S. dealerships, closing almost 800 by June 9. At a bankruptcy court filing on Thursday the company claimed that they had too many stores competing with each other. Here is a complete list of [...]

Less than 9 weeks ago, Tesla unveiled its ultra-slick luxury electric sedan, the Model S. Since then they have accepted more than 1,000 orders for the Models S which is a great indicator that there is indeed a market for electric cars. The basic version of the Model S is expected to cost $57,400 but [...]

Actor Tom Hanks wrote a letter to the New Yorker setting the record straight about an article published in the paper that claimed he at one time owned the all-electric EV1 from General Motors. However, Hanks says this is not true. Hanks writes, “By the time I began shopping for an all-electric car, in 2003, [...]

The Vancouver Epic Expo had some interesting eco-vehicles but the one that stuck out the most for us was the Future Vehicle Technologies’ (FVT) eVaro (pictured above). The eVaro is a 3-wheeled, electric sports car packing an impressive drive system which was designed to power any car or small truck. While the eVaro is just [...]

Being in the neighborhood we decided to check out the Vancouver Epic Expo, a sustainable living trade show with some 300+ exhibits. Sponsored by the Vancouver Sun, Epic is Western Canada’s only green consumer trade show. The trade show lasted three days and we caught it today on Day Three. While there were several stages [...]

Our trip to the Vancouver Epic Sustainable Living Expo turned over something interesting we didn’t already know (but probably should have). There are at least two different car sharing networks operating in Vancouver. Zipcar was the first one we checked out. Zipcar has car sharing networks setup all over the U.S. as well as in [...]

File this one under “Predictable.” The CEO of Shell, Jereoen van der Veer, has recently dismissed the idea of using electric cars. In an interview with the Associated Press in Germany yesterday he put down electric vehicles by saying, “My milkman used to drive around in electric cars a long time ago … What’s new?” [...]

While the Obama Administration is definitely behind green initiatives and reducing vehicular carbon emissions, they have officially started cutting ties with hydrogen fuel-cell technology in favor of plug-in electric vehicles. The DOE secretary Steven Chu stated yesterday that hydrogen vehicles are still 10 to 20 years from being practical and consequently the federal government will [...]

Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, GM announced that it was partnering with the University of Michigan to create the Advanced Battery Coalition for Drivetrains (ABCD). The objective of ABCD has been on researching batteries as they pertain to automotive applications. Now they have announced the creation of the GM/U-M Institute of Automotive [...]