The Senate Energy Committee has approved a $2 billion program whose goal is to have 400,000 electric vehicles on the road in three years. The Promoting Electric Vehicles Act (PEVA) of 2010 was approved with a 19-4 vote. The approved version is a scaled-back version of an $11 billion bill first proposed in the spring. [...]

Everyone is talking about the Fisker Karma, but until recently, Fisker had never revealed a solid release date. According to a Santa Monica Fisker dealer, production on the Karma will begin in the first quarter of next year, with deliveries scheduled to commence in March or April. The four-door luxury car has two 201-hp electric [...]

In a move that some consider to be surprisingly late in the game, Volkswagen has announced its intention to more aggressively enter the green vehicle market. VW CEO Martin Winterkorn said that plans are in motion to release a hybrid version of its Touareg SUV in the U.S. market later this year, and will follow [...]

Honda President Takanobu Ito is expected to announce his company’s plans for plug-in hybrids, electric cars and other alternative vehicles at a news conference tomorrow morning. The Japanese automakers says its plug-in hybrid will be able to go 60km or more on a single liter of gas. This will make it more fuel-efficient that Toyota’s [...]

Peugeot is making some major claims about its new hybrid car. They are saying that the diesel-electric hybrid car would have 99 Gms per kilometer of CO2 emissions, and that the new model would require only 3.8 liters for every 100 km – that’s about 62 US miles per gallon. This would make it the [...]

Tesla Motors and auto giants Toyota have announced that the two car companies will be putting their heads together to build a shiny new electric RAV4 that will be powered by Tesla technology. The hopes are that the electric RAV4 will be on US shores by 2012. Until then, Tesla will design a line of [...]

Fiat says the two-cylinder TwinAir might be on its way to North America. This cartoon-y little car will not only get 57.4 MPG, it will also have super low carbon emissions – 92 g/km of CO2. How does that compare to the hybrid leading Prius? 50 MPG and 89 g/km of CO2. It features a [...]

GM has just announced that the Chevy Volt battery will come with an 8-year / 100,000 mile warranty. The announcement came today during a media briefing at a battery manufacturing facility in Michigan by GM Vice Chairman tom Stephens who went on to say that it has always been GM’s goal and intention to provide [...]

Some exciting research is coming out of the Eindhoven Universtity of Technology (EUT) that could help to significantly reduce vehicle pollution. The idea being looked at by EUT scientists involves creating roadways made from concrete that’s been blended with titanium dioxide. The titanium dioxide would effectively eliminate up to 45 percent of the nitrogen oxides [...]

Toyota president Akio Toyoda recently let it slip that Toyota is currently creating an electric car that uses a Tesla battery pack. The interesting tidbit came out while he was answering inquiries regarding the Tesla and Toyota relationship. While Toyota currently has a joint venture with Panasonic who is building their larger car batteries, Toyoda [...]