EVs

What’s the point of self-driving cars if you still have to drive them?

Tesla's Autopilot mode isn't actually meant to auto-pilot, the company says.

Google’s self-driving cars will hit California streets this summer

The prototypes will make their debut on public roads in just a couple short months.

New rule specifies that electric cars must go VROOOOOM

"Quiet cars" would have to emit some sort of sound when they move slower than 18 miles per hour.

Used electric-car batteries could end blackouts

It's hard enough to recycle the batteries that power tiny devices. What do you do with those ginormous batteries that store a car's power?

Car geeks say the all-electric Tesla is the best car

It's official: EVs are awesome and everyone knows it.

Check out this 100-year-old electric car

Electric cars are a modern new technology, so modern and unproven that many [Republicans] would say they couldn’t possibly be plausible. Except for how they’ve actually been around since the turn of the 20th century. This photo of an electric car charging (above, click to embiggen) is from 1909, and by that point the technology […]

Honda Fit, most efficient car EVER, gets 118 MPG equivalent

In England, when you want to say that a guy or a gal is h-o-t-t HOT, you say “He/she is FIT!” And that is what we want to say about the 2013 Honda Fit EV. The Fit is FIT. F-i-t-t FIT! This car — this car! — according to the EPA, gets the fuel efficiency […]

Badass enclosed, untippable electric motorcycle is the ultimate green transport

It goes 200 miles on a third as much battery power as an electric car. It has airbags and an enclosed cockpit. It's gyroscopically stabilized, like a Segway. It could be the future of transportation.

Terrified by peak oil, FedEx turns to biofuels, efficiency

FedEx owns 700 planes and tens of thousands of trucks, which is why CEO Fred Smith is crazy for energy efficiency.