Labour’s £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution - Guardian Unlimited
Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra

Plan to boost electric car sales - BBC News
Motorists will be offered subsidies of up to £5,000 to encourage them to buy electric or plug-in hybrid cars under plans announced by the government. It is part of the government’s £250m plan to promote low carbon transport over the next five years

My money’s on China to produce world-changing electric car - Globe and Mail
Once in a while an invention comes along that changes the world: Gunpowder. Printing press. Steam engine. Telegraph. Telephone. Model T Ford. Television. Computers - first mainframes, then PCs. The Internet. And now - maybe - the electric car. I’m

Fuel-cell cars have a long way to go - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Not a sound escapes when the ignition is turned on. No carbon dioxide rolls from the exhaust — ever. Yet the inside and outside are no different than other vehicles on the road. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, such as General Motors Corp.’s retooled

New cars lose 65% of value in three years - This is Money
New £2,000 car scrapping payments may be a false economy, with many new cars losing up to 65% of their value within the first three years, according to research. Not so shiny now: New cars have lost up to 65% off their original value after just

Obama plug-in car goal may be short-circuited - MSNBC
GM plans to release an extended range electric plug-in called the Chevrolet Volt in limited numbers in late 2010. WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015 is fraught with

Chrysler developing electric sports car for 2010 - CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A battery-powered 268-horsepower two-seat sports car is in line to become Chrysler LLC’s first electric car, provided the carmaker lives to see another day. To survive, help is needed from Italy’s Fiat but, as negotiations

AEP earnings fall 37 percent - Longview News-Journal
American Electric Power, the parent company of Southwest Electric Power Co., said Friday its first quarter earnings fell 37 percent as the weak economy has hurt demand for electricity, especially among its industrial customers whose usage fell 15

Cars run on natural gas - Burlington Free Press
SOUTH BURLINGTON — A borrowed Honda Civic GX zipped our family down Interstate 89 to Waterbury, up steep hills and along a rutted dirt road to the start of a hiking trail up Hunger Mountain. We drove the car to buy groceries, visit friends, pick up