News

They could be the first practical off-road, all-electric vehicles. One thing is for sure: they are the first manned exterrestrial vehicles of any kind.

The 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon Monday leads Drive On to wonder what was the story behind the Lunar Roving Vehicles - the astronaut buggies that allowed moon walkers to become moon drivers?

Read more...

Last month, our city council adopted Berkeley’s bold Climate Action Plan.  This plan calls for systemic action, by all Berkeley residents and agencies to reduce our city’s greenhouse gas (GHG) consumption by 80% below 2000 levels by the year 2050, and the investment in electric vehicle infrastructure will be a key method for achieving these larger goals.

Read more...

Electric cars will become part of the Ontario government's fleet and consumers will get up to $10,000 in rebates to buy one of the experimental vehicles, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday. Read more ...

Dave Kaufmann likes people yelling at him as he drives through La Cañada, Calif., the wealthy suburb north  of Los Angeles where he lives. What they're shouting about is his battery-powered electric vehicle, one of up to 30,000 estimated to hit the streets of Southern California in the next 36 months, the biggest expected e-car surge in the  country. Read more...

For years, the stumbling block for renewable energy has been how to store electricity for days when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. But new technologies suggest this goal may be within reach, writes Jon R Luoma from Yale Environment 360, part of the Guardian Environment Network Read more ...