WARREN, Mich.–General Motors’ announcement on Tuesday that it expects that the Chevy Volt will get an eye-popping 230 miles per gallon begs an obvious question: how can the mileage of electric vehicles be compared to gasoline cars?
It’s a problem that the Environmental Protection Agency is working on …
WARREN, Mich.–For all the attention on the electric Chevy Volt, General Motors has big expectations for another key car segment: small cars.
The auto giant opened up its design studios and testing grounds to the media on Tuesday to showcase its product pipeline of 25 new models over the …
WARREN, Mich.–Got an opinion about how General Motors designs its cars and trucks? Let them know.
GM on Tuesday unveiled a blog Web site called The Lab that it hopes will give the struggling auto giant a bead on customer preferences. It’s part social-marketing campaign and part product …
WARREN, Mich.–The gas-electric Chevy Volt will get triple-digit mileage, including an estimated 230 mpg for city driving, General Motors said Tuesday.
The 230 mpg–teased in a stealth advertising campaign on billboards and during baseball games–is based on a draft methodology for electric vehicles developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, …
Increasing domestic natural gas production and retrofitting buildings to be more efficient should form the basis of a low-carbon U.S. energy policy, according to a statement put out Monday during the Clean Energy Summit.
The summit, held for the second year in Las Vegas, brought together some of the …
The Green Electronics Council said Monday it is making its EPEAT rating system, now mandated in U.S. government agencies, available for computer gear sold in other countries.
Products certified by EPEAT–which stands for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool–are listed in a registry. Products are judged on 23 attributes that …
General Motors and eBay will start a trial program Tuesday to let Californians buy cars online.
Dealers at 225 locations in California will participate in the program, which will run from Tuesday until September 8. It will be available at the co-branded Web site, gm.ebay.com.
The site will …
The Senate is expected to vote on a bill on Thursday to extend the Cash for Clunkers car trade-in program, but experts contend there are more cost-effective ways to get environmental benefits.
The government-funded program, where people can get up to $4,500 for trading in a car for a …
Plug-in electric car drivers in San Diego will be able to charge up at a friend’s house without leaving behind a hefty electric bill.
Utility San Diego Gas & Electric said on Wednesday that it plans to use a mobile car-charging device from Juice Technologies as part of a …
The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced which U.S. companies have been awarded grants to build manufacturing plants for electric vehicle batteries.
The $2.4 billion program, established as part of the stimulus plan, sets aside funds for auto battery manufacturing and related components, such as electric motors. (Click …
Among the Internet cognoscenti, Bill Gross is best known as the head of tech incubator Idealab. Now, as the CEO of solar start-up eSolar, he’s working in renewable energy, but he’s still putting his digital economy chops to work.
Two-year-old eSolar is having an opening ceremony for its …
eSolar's demonstration plant in Lancaster, Calif.
(Credit: eSolar)
eSolar is doing what so many other solar start-ups wish they were already doing: feeding electricity into the grid.
The 2-year-old concentrating solar company on Wednesday will host an event in Lancaster, Calif., to celebrate the opening of a demonstration …
Think, which plans to make a small all-electric car, expects to secure a fresh round of funding and emerge from bankruptcy next month, according to a company representative.
Settling its debts and boosting its capital will allow Think to start producing its electric city car by the end of year. …
The United States risks missing the business opportunity posed by moving to low-carbon energy, two prominent business leaders argued in an editorial aimed at policy makers.
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, published an editorial in The Washington Post Monday to …
In a sign of the difficulty financing solar, commercial installer Borrego Solar said on Monday it has taken in $30 million from an outside investor to fund new projects.
With the additional funding, Borrego Solar will now be able to offer purchase power agreements to companies and government organizations.
In …
The money to fund an extended Cash for Clunkers program could come at the expense of renewable energy companies.
The House on Friday overwhelmingly passed a bill to extend the program which gives consumers up to $4,500 for trading in old cars for new, fuel-efficient ones with an additional $…
Acciona solar thermal plant in Nevada.
(Credit: Acciona)
The U.S. Army on Friday detailed what it expects to be the Department of Defense’s largest solar energy project–a 500-megawatt installation at the Fort Irwin base in the Mojave Desert in California.
The solar power will be generated by both …
The Department of Energy on Wednesday detailed $30 billion in loan guarantees available to promote renewable energy and grid upgrades.
The DOE is soliciting applications for projects in renewable energy and added electricity transmission. This phase of loan guarantees also makes loans available for “cutting edge” biofuels projects.
The solicitations …
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