Hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicles are widely considered the future of clean transportation. We’re all familiar with the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, but did you know a major automaker built EV and fuel cell vehicles back in 1966?
I got a chance to go back to the future and check out the ancestors of today’s cutting-edge alternative fueled vehicles in person during a tour of the General Motors Heritage Center.
Can an electric vehicle be powerful, cheap, and fun to drive? The answer to all three questions is yes in the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV.
I took a test drive of Chevy’s all-electric mini car and let me say one thing – I was surprised by this EV.
General Motors yesterday unveiled a $20 million, 50,000-square foot expansion to its Michigan electric vehicle battery laboratory, making it the biggest lab in North America owned and operated by an auto manufacturer.
RGGI’s latest cap-and-trade auction completely sold out of carbon allowances, but at a relatively low price. With carbon markets in “trouble” across the world, is it time to reconsider the definition of success?
New research from Stanford University suggests the high energy requirements of grid-scale batteries make energy storage a good option for solar energy, but not wind farms.
California’s state legislature has passed the landmark 600MW “shared renewables” bill that will open up access to clean energy to millions of residents who can’t install their own renewables – with no state subsidy and no extra ratepayer costs.
The levelized cost of renewable energy in America has fallen by more than 50% over the past four years, according to new analysis from global financial advisor and asset manager firm Lazard Freres & Co.
New analysis finds the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill could create hundreds of thousands of green jobs while dramatically cutting US energy use and emissions by 2030.
American offshore wind took another major step forward yesterday with the second-ever competitive lease sale to develop renewable energy in federal waters.
A subsidiary of Dominion Virginia Power won the Interior Department’s auction to develop 112,800 acres about 23 miles from Virginia Beach with a bid of $1.6 billion.
America added 976MW of new solar PV capacity in the second quarter of 2013, and California set a record for most solar PV ever added by one state in a three-month period, according to the NPD Solarbuzz North America PV Markets Quarterly report.
