When it comes to cars, the vaunted Chinese export juggernaut is currently a lot less intimidating than one might expect. In fact China imports many more vehicles than it exports, and the imported vehicles are at a much higher price-point, making the monetary trade-imbalance pretty staggering. In 2010 China exported 544...Read more

EV and Hybrid batteries are quickly becoming big-business in the auto industry, and in the U.S., battery making and assembling facilities are cropping up from Smyrna, Tennessee (Nissan) to San Francisco California (Tesla).  But the greatest concentration of activity in the United States is in Michigan, where histo...Read more

From an engineering point of view, many argue that large vehicles make more sense than small ones as platforms for gasoline-electric hybrid technology. There's more space to incorporate battery packs, and as the base vehicle is heavier, the weight added by hybrid components is proportionately less (and less significant...Read more

The production version of Volvo's V60 Sport Wagon Diesel-Electric Hybrid will be making an appearance at the 2011 Geneva International Auto Show In March. Like the prototype which was unveiled over a year ago, the 2012 V60 hybrid will have a 2.4L five cylinder turbo-diesel engine driving the front wheels, while a mecha...Read more

Representative sander M. Levin (Dem, MI) Introduced a Bill to The United States Senate To Increase the number of individual Plug-in vehicle buyers who would be able to receive the currently available $7,500.00 tax credit from 200,000 to 500,000. The tax credit, as passed in 2009, applies specifically to five vehicles (...Read more

Chrysler announced at the recent Detroit auto Show that in addition to the EPA developed and patented Hydraulic-hybrid system that it was going to begin incorporating into larger vehicles such as a minivan, that it would be offering a gas-electric hybrid 300 sedan for 2013.  With the company estimating that the hy...Read more

Honda, with a few of its FCX Clarity fuel-cell electric vehicles already on the road in California for testing, has been trumpeting its ongoing project to develop a solar-powered home-refueling station for several years.  Well, praise God, the Next Generation Solar-Hydrogen Refueling Station prototype has at last ...Read more

GM has announced that nationwide Volt sales will be accelerated by six months, making the car available in every state by the end of 2011.  The initial plan was to deliver Volts to selected states only (Michigan, California, Texas, Washington D.C., Connecticut, New Jersey and New York), expanding availability to t...Read more

By the end of 2010 China, supplier of most of the worlds rare-earth metals (used in powerful electric motors and advanced batteries)had reduced exports of these materials by more than 70% as compared to previous rates.  With a stated goal of developing an EV industry from the ground up, to the point of becoming th...Read more

Fisker has confirmed that the Karma, its exotic, extended-range plug-in hybrid, will indeed go into production in March. This is good news for the approximately 3000 people with deposits down, many of whom have suffered through long production delays (and price bumps) already. Fisker says that deliveries will start in ...Read more