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Henrik Fisker walks away from his dream company citing disagreements with management. Sounds familiar?

In EV mode plug-in hybrid vehicles are more efficient than some electric cars. The trend towards plug-in hybrids is steadily growing.

Subaru, long absent from the hybrid scene showcases the diesel plug-in hybrid VIZIV. Find out what this diesel electric Suby means for you.

The new Hyundai i20 racer is revealed at Geneva. Here is why Hyundai's return to the sport is perfectly timed.

Maybe Pepper is expecting, or maybe Tony just wants a roomy limo-like vehicle with limited range, but plenty of space for a car seat and stroller. What would Bruce Wayne drive?

The sequester tax cuts have brought lots of bad news. Thankfully millionaires won't lose their $ 7,500 federal tax credit.

As the State Department considers whether to approve or disallow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to move oil tar sands from Canada to ports in the Gulf, corporate media are exaggerating the dubious benefits and belittling the considerable risks the pipeline poses to aquifers and the environment in general.

Racing has allowed expensive technologies to find its way into our daily lives. Racing helps mature and develop new technologies, electric car racing will have the same benefits.

With 14.5 million vehicles sold in the US last year, the automotive market is on track to match or surpass the 17 million units sold in 2008 by 2017 – however the standoffish nature of Gen Y Americans and other economic or cultural trends may slow the market’s pace by then.

Electric car sales aren't a flash-in-the-pan success, but they are growing rapidly, and many electric car owners look to long term trends to justify their purchase.

Fox Business is still confused by the variety and choice the electric automobile field gives. It’s no wonder, mainstream news media is no expert with these specialized industries.

Irrational exuberance returns as automakers having had one good year in 5 expect the coming years to show double digit growth. Meanwhile the US economy shrank last quarter.

Smaller turbocharged engines cannot match the power and efficiency of a modern, larger, normally aspirated engine, but they are getting very close.

Electric vehicles are like penguins and albatross, awkward on their feet, they excel in their own domains. EV excel in city traffic and that’s how we should see them.

How many times have you wished you could attend the Barrett-Jackson annual auto auction in Scottsdale AZ with enough money to thoroughly indulge your wildest automotive desires?

This week has been chock full of electric vehicle news that will have an impact on tomorrow’s EV landscape. Find out what happen and what this means for you.

Electric vehicle sales predictions are most often based on nothing concrete. Think twice before listening to unrealistic proclamations.

Fisker bought a plant in Delaware and promised to build vehicles there, but so far has not done much with the facility. The state has been picking up the tab on the electric bill for the empty electric car plant, say news reports.

In 2012 gas reached prices in the US it never has before and given the drop in national demand and the boost in domestic production, gas may not exceed last years prices at any time during the coming year.

A new SAE standard gives recommendations meant to improve emergency worker safety while working accidents involving electric or hybrid vehicles, with training on unique safety requirements, as well as labels identifying the drive train type.

A new tax on electric cars is going into effect in Washington State, to collect road use fees normally collected at the gasoline pumps electric car owners never visit.

The very fate of Christmas as we know it could be in the balance as the conspiracy around the conflicting reports from Lexus and Ford deepens.

The events of 9/11 put the right to privacy smack dab in the path of Homeland Security and the next invasion of personal rights comes with a black box in your car – with the potential to tattle on you thousands of miles down the road.

No matter how you look at it, the Tesla Model S is a bargain, or at the very least will offer performance a gasoline car does for roughly the same price. How so? Follow my thinking.

The world’s largest automotive market will mark the beginning of the year 4710 on lichun or February 12, 2013, and the effects of limited capitalism and a growing auto culture are causing more change than the communist revolution of Mao Tse Tung did in 1949.

With the release of General Motor's plans for its half ton pickup trucks, the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 and the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, it's clear that the new models will eschew a hybrid powertrain. Why?

Though still a pitiable percentage of the total automotive market, the marginalization of electric cars may be nearing its end.

The first steam powered carriages were replacing horses as early as 1788 and though eventually superseded by gasoline powered combustion engines, the highways of tomorrow may see the return of steam as a renewable power source thanks to the innovative HydroICE engine.

While writing an admonition of mixing oil and water yesterday, the US Coast Guard was searching for two missing workers after an explosion on an oil rig, 17 miles south of Grand Isle LA, owned by Black Elk Energy, a firm founded by a former BP executive.

BP was just handed $4.5 billion in fines and penalties, along with the indictment of a vice-president and two on-site supervisors for manslaughter, all as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.