London to become ‘electric car capital’ - Stuff
The city’s famous red buses and Underground are regularly crammed with commuters, while the roads are choked with traffic. But Prime Minister Gordon Brown and London Mayor Boris Johnson have come up with some new - and green - options. Brown is

Electric-car drivers will want a 240-volt outlet - Detroit Free Press
In a world where it takes just a few minutes to fill up a tank of gas that fuels a car for hundreds of miles, future drivers of electric cars and trucks will most likely want a 240-volt outlet installed in their homes for convenience. Many electric

Charged up on electric cars - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
It took about six months, but Joe Downing finally broke free from the pump. The Sugar Grove man recently converted his 1996 Ford Escort to run on electricity, shrinking the estimated cost of his weekly commute from around $32 to about $10. With the

Challenges to grow with electric cars’ sales - Detroit Free Press
President Barack Obama and others are calling for a boom in electric vehicle production, which seems simple enough on the surface: Build the cars and plug them in. If only it were that easy. When a Chevrolet Volt is plugged into a 240-volt outlet, it

India’s electric car captures imagination - San Francisco Gate
Indian cities are typically clogged with hulking buses, braying bullock carts and motorbikes - stacked with as many as five people - that cause commuters to idle for hours in traffic. The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench 04.05.09

The History of the Electric Car - Time
2007 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Car. No one would mistake Chris Paine for a General Motors shill. In his 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? , the filmmaker laid out a damning case against GM for unplugging the EV1, the electric vehicle it

Southern Co.’s smart meters good for bottom line - Atlanta Journal Constitution
The green energy buzz behind the high-profile federal push for smart electric technology is the kind of rhetoric that normally makes Atlanta-based Southern Co. see red. But Southern is already on board. Its operating utilities are rolling out so

MUSIC REVIEW: Neil Young tackles bailouts on new CD - Milford Daily News
Give Neil Young credit for following his muse. Throughout his storied career, Young has never been one to shy away from the idiosyncratic project, whether his fans want to come along or not. On his latest, the hastily written and recorded “Fork in