Electric Car Blogging

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, GM

Over the past week, Bob Boniface has been doing a lot of talking about the Chevy Volt and Tuesday afternoon he’ll be at it again. For those who may not recognize the name, Boniface is the director of the E-Flex Design Studio at GM which includes responsibility for the look [...] [...]

Filed under: Biodiesel, Diesel, Emerging Technologies, Ethanol, EV/Plug-in, Flex-Fuel, Green Culture, Hybrid, Hydrogen, Vegetable Oil, Boston AltWheels, Green Daily, NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle)

Last year, the fifth annual AltWheels festival featured a lot of cool green car goodness – along with things like Darth Vader discussing HUMMER and a vegoil MINI. This year, the show returns [...] [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Zap, USA

Some states have laid out the red carpet for the three-wheeled electric vehicles from ZAP! by offering rebates and issuing executive orders while some states are trying to pull the rug out from under owners by invalidating their registrations. This is now the case in Maine where Xebra [...] [...]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Ford, USA

Back in the day, the Ford Pinto was most famous for the occasional gas tank explosion when involved in a rear-end collision. When you design a car with that kind of feature engineering flaw and then combine it with doors that jam shut in the same type of crash, people are [...] [...]