After 2 years in a Chevy Volt, this guy is averaging 460 mpg
A retired New Jersey pilot has put almost 12,000 miles on his range-extended electric Chevy Volt, using just 26.1 gallons over two years.
Ford’s first all-electric car, the Focus Electric, gives a taste of the future (video)
April 18, 2012 11:39 AM
Sean Ludwig
Enterprise tech IPOs have seen some big movement over the past few years. Now we can add big data and data visualization company Tableau Software to the list.
GM is halting Chevy Volt production, for now
March 2, 2012 3:18 PM
Sarah Mitroff
The green technology investing boom has slowed. But if you ask investors, greentech isn’t disappearing, it’s just changing.
Between 2006 and 2007, cleantech and greentech emerged as hot terms in the investor vernacular. Startups focused on big-picture energy needs, including …
“World-record” battery could mean cheaper, longer-range electric cars are coming soon
February 26, 2012 3:35 PM
Sarah Mitroff
The green technology investing boom has slowed. But if you ask investors, greentech isn’t disappearing, it’s just changing.
Between 2006 and 2007, cleantech and greentech emerged as hot terms in the investor vernacular. Startups focused on big-picture energy needs, including …
Chevy Volt fires don’t mean plug-in cars are unsafe
Guest Post
Brace yourselves, electric-car advocates, for another possible round of alarmism and superficial reporting about fires in plug-in cars.
A Bloomberg story from Friday highlights a third fire involving a Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car–only 7,500 or so of which are …
Electric car range anxiety evaporates after 3 months
September 9, 2011 10:27 AM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Extended-range hybrids pick up steam
August 30, 2011 3:02 PM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Meet the Cadillac ELR, General Motors’ luxury extended-range electric car
August 17, 2011 3:23 PM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Nissan Leaf trounces Chevy Volt in July sales, but will it last?
August 2, 2011 4:31 PM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Volt cruises into North Carolina and South Carolina
July 18, 2011 10:47 AM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Nissan Leaf stomps Chevy Volt in June sales
July 6, 2011 2:23 PM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
Japan earthquake could delay U.S. production of Nissan Leaf
June 21, 2011 10:22 AM
Matthew Lynley
Storied venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his firm, Khosla Ventures, have raised a $1.05 billion fund.
Khosla said he will invest half of the new fund into clean technology companies, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The …
GM slashes Volt price tag
General Motors has cut the price of next year’s model of its plug-in hybrid electric car, the Chevy Volt, by around $1,000 to $39,995 — bringing the car’s price closer to its now rival, the pure plug-in electric Nissan Leaf.…
Nissan doubles Leaf sales, Volt stays steady: some perspective, please
Sigh. Here we go again.
It’s the first of the month, which means that auto journalists are scrambling to put together their monthly sales reports. Sales in May weren’t great, for a variety of reasons: higher prices and shortages of …
Oregon dots interstate with electric car charging stations
Oregon is the next state that will distribute electric car charging stations to alleviate some of the crippling range concerns that pure electric cars face when trying to attract mainstream car buyers.
The chargers are designed to be “fast-chargers,” which …
Nissan takes a crack at Volt hybrid electric car
Nissan has taken a potshot at General Motors by mocking its plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volt in an ad for its pure plug-in electric car, the Nissan Leaf.
The ad mocks cars that use internal combustion engines and gasoline by …
U.S. government scores a discount on home-grown Chevy Volt
The U.S. government is purchasing 116 plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles for its vehicle fleet — and it is picking up a nice discount on General Motors’ Chevy Volt, the same company it made a significant investment in to …
Toyota bets big on hybrids, no pure electric car in sight
Toyota has unveiled a new line-up of hybrid electric Prius cars designed to attract more mainstream buyers to the fuel-efficient cars. The new models include a hatchback Prius v and a cheaper compact hybrid-electric car called the Prius c.
But …
General Motors ups 2011 production targets for Volt, Ampera electric hybrids
General Motors said it now expects to sell 16,000 Chevy Volt and Opel Ampera (a German model of the Chevy Volt) vehicles, a jump from its previous sales targets for the first full year of its plug-in electric hybrid.
That’s …
San Francisco will juice your electric car for free
The city of San Francisco, Calif., will install electric vehicle charging stations in publicly-owned garages and at San Francisco International Airport by the end of the year that drivers can use for free until 2013.
The plan involves dropping around …
