Electric Car Blogging

Sour grapes or legitimate gripe that real innovation was overlooked?
The Department of Energy showed bias toward large well-capitalized companies when choosing recipients of .4 billion in grants to support electric-drive vehicles and batteries, according to critics [...] [...]

Sexy, but expensive
A new study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) finds that the move to plug-in hybrid vehicles will not be easy. Likewise, even if the current Federal Tax Credit for plug-in vehicles – ranging from ,500 to ,500 based on battery pack capacity – were made permanent, even more incentives [...] [...]