ELECTRIC CARS

Ford Motors Co spent $1.67 million lobbying tax breaks for electric cars, incentives for spending on research, manufacturing and other issues during the first quarter.

Technology giant Google, Inc has deployed more than 70 electric vehicle charging stations managed by the ChargePoint Network at its worldwide headquarters in Mountain View, CA, the company said in its official blog post on Thursday.

In GOP circles, what he said was akin to an act of treason. Mitt Romney, the latest Republican to declare his candidacy for the presidency in 2012, said Friday that global warming is, indeed, real.

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said on Sunday that he wants lower oil prices so that Western countries don't have the incentive to find alternatives.

General Motors will create 110 jobs and invest $331 million to purchase tooling and equipment and expand the Arlington Assembly Plant to make future Chevrolet Tahoes, Suburbans, GMC Yukons and Cadillac Escalades, the carmaker said on Thursday.

General Motors on Wednesday said it will add 2,500 jobs at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build the new Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan and the next-generation Impala large sedan alongside the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera electric cars.

Japan's Toyota Motor will join hands with salesforce.com Inc to build a private social networking for customers for Toyota cars.

China's State Council has issued a national guideline to promote sustainable and healthy development of the nation's rare earth industry.

Los Angeles will be a U.S. leader in electric vehicle adoption, according to a new study published by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

Luxury carmaker Jaguar has put its hybrid supercar concept into production, the company said in a statement on Friday.

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc has announced the pricing for the company's advanced 100 percent electric Mitsubishi i, powered by Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle (MiEV) technology.

The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf have earned the highest safety ratings in the first-ever U.S. crash test evaluations of plug-in electric cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Monday.

As part of the US administration's efforts to reduce U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, the US Department of Energy has announced new funding and partnership with Google to promote electric vehicles.

The Nissan LEAF is the first of four 100% electric vehicles Nissan has announced, part of our worldwide commitment to becoming a leader in the effort to build a sustainable, low-carbon society.

Coulomb technologies announced in a press release that the Charge Point America, a $37 million project, will be expanding into six more cities which are Baltimore, Md., Tampa, Fla., Boston, Santa Barbara, Calif., Ventura, Calif. and Santa Cruz and Calif.

German luxury carmaker Audi has released the details of all all-electric Audi A3 e-tron concept, a vehicle that will hit the market sometime in the near future. The electric car is based on the 2011 Audi A3 Sportback.

The two companies announced today a plan to bring internet-connected functionality to Toyota’s upcoming line of electric and hybrid vehicles.

China has set its total output of rare earth at 93,800 tonnes this year, 4,600 tonnes more or 5.16 percent higher compared to last year's, the Ministry of Land and Resources said on Thursday.

President Barack Obama told U.S. students on Wednesday that with rapid growth in China and India, global demand for energy will continue to increase and a solution for reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil would require long term solutions, setting out goals for reducing oil imports and boosting the use of alternative electricity sources decades from now.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected present a vision of decline for the U.S. oil industry in next two decades, highlighting its lack of development at existing land leases as the country shifts to other 'Clean Energy' industries linked to nuclear power, 'clean coal,' natural gas, biofuels, wind and solar power.

The 2002 Civic EX four-door sedan has the conventional powertrain replaced with a 35-horsepower electric motor and 33 lithium-iron-phosphate batteries.