New tax incentives to coax automakers into producing electric cars won't help consumers right away. The way to help now would be to make roads safer for the small electric vehicles currently available. ...more

March 14, 2009

but it's traveling in the slow lane. High oil prices have accomplished what years of pleas from environmentalists and energy-security hawks could not: forcing the world's major automakers to refocus their engineers and their capital on devising mass-market alternatives to century-old petroleum-fueled engine technology. ...more

September 16, 2008

Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car? ...more

July 26, 2008

a rising billion in China and India determined to own automobiles and air conditioners. This increased demand for oil, natural gas and coal has almost nothing to do with the policies of America or the designs of OPEC. ...more

July 14, 2008

Jim Parish gets envious looks from drivers when his modified plug-in Toyota Prius cruises down the highway. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - Jim Parish gets envious looks from drivers when his modified plug-in Toyota Prius cruises down the highway. ...more

June 16, 2008

Toyota is introducing a plug-in hybrid with next-generation lithium-ion batteries in Japan, the United States and Europe by 2010, under a widespread strategy to be green outlined Wednesday. ...more

June 12, 2008

Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine. ...more

September 17, 2007