Battery electric vehicles

Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck

Ford hits a ‘home run’ with its new all-electric F-150 pickup

Ford’s F-Series pickup trucks are the best-selling vehicles in the United States. Now the all-electric version of the popular F-150 is the talk of the auto industry.

Electric Studebaker

The battle between gas and electric cars isn’t new

Science
The World

Auto industry ‘charged’ to go electric

Hydrogen fuel cell filling station

Has the hydrogen fuel car finally arrived? Automakers are betting on it

Environment

Is Hyperloop the Future of Travel?

Development & Education

Electric cars could produce efficiencies for national electric grid

Environment

Electric cars have large batteries that go mostly unused for hours at a time. But a team of researchers in Delaware are hoping to use these electric cars to improve how the national electric grid works. So far, the results are promising. And it could provide benefits to electric car owners, too.

Don’t need your car today? How about renting it out?

In California, three companies have started up to allow car owners to connect with people are who are looking for cars to rent for a few hours. The pitch is that it’s an environmentally friendly way to share your car, make a few bucks and not worry about liability.

Alternative energy infrastructure

Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, has a bold plan involving the creation of the infrastructure necessary to support electric vehicles.

Cleaning up the world one electric car at a time

Entrepreneur Shai Agassi says he has a better idea — better than Ford, GM, or Toyota ; he wants to clean up the world one electric car at a time.

Tesla Stock Soars

Consumer Reports declares the Tesla S to be the best car it has ever tested and stock for the electric car company is ten times what it was a year ago. The battery-electric car industry seems to be taking off.