Interbrand, an international consulting firm, just announced it’s inaugural Best Global Brands list which examines the environmental track record along with the public’s perception of how green they are to come up with a company’s “green profile”. Interbrand gave Toyota a 64.19 which is apparently the highest combined score of all brands profiled. Interbrand describes [...]

It was announced today that the Department of Energy (DOE) along with the International Energy Agency would be releasing 60 million barrels of oil over the next month. The U.S. will be contributing half of the oil as the two groups attempt to offset the drain on available oil caused by all the conflict in [...]

The California Air Resource Board (CARRB) money has run dry and Californians who buy electric vehicles will no longer be eligible for any kind of state level rebate. As you can see by the brilliant CARB pie chart above, the amount of money left to pay Californians for buying an eco-friendly vehicle is exactly zero. [...]

If we are to believe the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, electric cars might be poised to make a huge leap in technology in the next 6 years. Secretary Chu attended the installation of the 500th Coulomb Technologies electric car charging station on Friday where he made some very optimistic, yet exciting, claims. Chu [...]

Finally. I have been waiting for what feels like umpteen years to view the Tesla Model S sedan with my own two naked eyes, unobstructed by glossy reflection or dead pixels. This weekend is the Vancouver Epic Expo at the Vancouver Convention Center and Tesla will be there with the Model S. Since Telsa’s only [...]

In a major move to help support the proliferation of electric cars, the German government is prepared to spend “billions of euros” in an effort to get a million electric vehicles registered before 2021. Reuters is reporting that the Germans will be dumping massive amounts of money into spending on the electric cars, they are [...]

American sales of hybrid and electric vehicles rose almost twice as fast as the rest of the car market in the first three months of 2011, according to research firm Edmunds.com. Helped out by great marketing campaigns and constantly rising gas prices, hybrid and electric car sales increased 3% in the first quarter to 78,523 [...]

As you may have already heard, Tesla Motors stock prices made a big jump today by 17.5% on news that Morgan Stanley Analyst, Adam Jones, re-evaluated Tesla Motors stock value to “overweight” from “equal weight” and picked a price target of a whopping $70 – a substantial increase from where Tesla opened this morning at [...]

It looks like the European Union intends to make a bold pledge to ban all diesel and gas-powered cars by the year 2050. This plan is expected to be part of the EU’s Roadmap on Transport which will also aim for a cut in gas-powered cars on the road by 50% by 2030. The ambitious [...]

Federal authorities are considering removing any option of running in stealth mode in your electric and hybrid vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently setting a timetable on a bill passed by the Obama Administration that bans car manufacturers from producing vehicles with the option to shut off the noise makers installed in [...]