Greener transportation doesn’t just involve electric vehicles and biofuels. Lighter weight steel can make a car more fuel efficient, too. That’s the idea behind the Wednesday announcement by the federal government… Read more »
Are we underestimating the electric car market? A bullish outlook from Morgan Stanley and President Obama’s energy speech apparently have raised that question, even though neither has made a good case… Read more »
I’m going to lean pretty heavily on the New York Times this morning, since it just released an energy special edition covering a lot of important ground (and we won’t be… Read more »
President Barack Obama is giving a speech on energy this morning, a broad bill of particulars aimed at an overarching goal — cutting U.S. oil dependence. With unrest in the Middle… Read more »
President Barack Obama’s proposed 2012 budget was unleashed yesterday, and it appears to be pretty good news for clean energy and green technology. The budget proposes increasing the Department of Energy’s… Read more »
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a report Tuesday that outlines how President Obama will achieve his goal of seeing 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. The answer:… Read more »
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S., an electric truck and van maker based in Kansas City, Mo. and backed by $32 million in stimulus grants, has become the great green hope for its… Read more »
Tesla’s IPO was all about expectations and innovations from a Silicon Valley startup that fancies itself a technology developer on the scale of Apple or Google. GM’s IPO will be about… Read more »
PayPal is giving away $160,000 USD in prizes to the most innovative apps to use the PayPal X Platform, judging based on app innovation and business potential, with additional awards honoring… Read more »
Compact Power, a Michigan subsidiary of South Korea’s LG Chem, is starting to look like the player to beat in the competition to supply lithium-ion cells and battery packs for electric… Read more »