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 [...]

Based on the current average price of gas in the U.S. being $3.53 per gallon, the DOE is expecting that the typical American household will spend an extra $700 on gas this year compared to last year. The total average cost of gas for U.S. family this year is expected to run about $3,235 representing [...]

Following the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf, the Obama Administration put a temporary halt to approving any new deep water oil drilling operations until a system was in place that would prevent a similar incident from ever happening. Since then, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has opened up the deep waters [...]

California dump truck owners of California apparently have their own association (CDTOA) and they are apparently hauling a whole load of anger towards the California Air Resources Board (CARB). They are calling into question the legality of CARB’s new requirement that truck and bus owners install their vehicles with diesel exhaust filters in the short-term [...]

If you hadn’t already heard, the Wikileak du jour is that the US believes that Saudi Arabia has hit peak oil, or in other words, the maximum rate of oil extraction has been reached. Not only has the peak been hit but the report suggests that the world will start to see a decline in [...]

Barack Obama’s State of the Union address saw him repeat his push for of seeing over 1 million plug-in hybrid and electric cars on the roads by 2015. Along with an increased reliance on biofuels he declared that the future could be won through scientific innovation. How will we get there? He suggested an $8 [...]

With the U.S. House of Representatives flooded with Republicans they’ve turned their eye of change to the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership program. The program itself was implemented under the Bush Administration and was created as a vehicle research project for the Department of Energy. The proposed cuts would nearly kill the program which has a [...]

Beijing, Tianjin, Nanchang and Hefei are the first cities that the State Grid Corporation of China, the world’s largest electricity transmission and distribution company, plans to expand and install new plug-in vehicle chargers. A few years ago the SGCC outlined how they planned to install the chargers nation-wide and although it has not exactly crossed [...]

The 2011 Chevrolet Volt received the North American Car of the Year award at the Detroit Auto Show.The Volt beat out the Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Sonata in the annual ceremony on the first day of media previews for the show. Forty-nine auto journalists from the U.S. and Canada made the picks. The vehicles are [...]