GM and the U.S. D.O.E. Argonne National Labs announced today that they have reached a licensing agreement allowing GM (and its battery partner LG Chem in South Korea) to use Argonne's newly developed composite-cathode Lithium Ion battery technology, which is said to be able to hold between 50 and 100% more power than t...Read more

GM says that it delivered 326 Volt  "extended-range EV's" in the month of December, the first month that the Volt has actually been on sale.  A year ago the company promised that 10,000 volts would be produced in 2011, but recently raised that figure to 25,000, as well as announcing that this first year's pro...Read more

Canadian recreational vehicle maker Bombardier, purveyor of personal watercraft, quad-ATV's and light aircraft engines, have announced that they will partner with Canada's Universite de Sherbrooke to develop a plug-in hybrid version of that road-going enigma, the Bombardier Can-Am Spyder. This three wheel motorbike-sub...Read more

Out of a total 11.6 Euro Budget plan for 2011-2015, Audi has announced that 10 billion will be applied to developing and producing "green technology" vehicles, specifically EV's and hybrids. Starting with the A1 and R8 electric vehicles, which will go into production, we can look forward to a whole lot of Audi innovati...Read more

Ford recently announced that the automatic stop/start technology used in its hybrids since 2004, will start becoming available in its conventional vehicles for 2012. Currently available in Europe in the Mondeo, Ka and rolling out in the Focus, C-max and Grand C-max, the company says Stop/start  "will soon be added...Read more

Ford will be producing the new hybrid Focus, plug-in hybrid Focus, EV Focus and gasoline Focus at it's newly remodeled, state-of-the-art Michigan assembly plant, a plant which features so much modular robotic assembly technology that, according to the company, multiple models can be run down the same production line wi...Read more

At 42 MPG highway (28 city) the 2011 Chevy Cruze Eco will exceed the highway fuel efficiency of some hybrids while costing only about $19,000.00.  The Cruz Eco has additional aerodynamic tweaking (as compared to the Cruze) and turbocharger technology built for Ford by Honeywell, who are also supplying turbocharger...Read more

In 2008 the Fisker Karma was going to cost $80,000.00 and go on sale in 2009.  In 2009 it was going to cost $87,000.00 and go on sale in 2010.  As of the 23rd of this month, the price has jumped to $95,900.00 and the car is now scheduled to go in sale in the Spring of 2011. An e-mail sent from the company to ...Read more

Bloomberg reports that GM CEO Dan Akerson has laid out a corporate strategy to triple extended-range EV sales between 2012 and 2015. Currently GM is projecting sales of 45,000 Volts (and Volt-like vehicles) in 2012, with Akerson therefore looking for sales of 135,000 or better in 2015.     &nbs...Read more

A year ago GM dropped plans to expand its Voltec technology into the Converj Cadillac Sedan, perhaps a wise move in that it was basically going to be a hideously expensive, re-badged Volt , albeit with new sheet-metal. Now however, the company is reportedly working on an "extended range EV" version of the SRX CUV. ...Read more