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Electric car network gets first test in Israel
Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come? After more than ...
Gov't proposal aimed at bus, truck rollovers
Manufacturers would have to equip large trucks and buses with safety systems that help prevent rollover accidents through computer-controlled braking, ...
Safety to prevent bus, truck rollovers proposed
Manufacturers would have to equip large trucks and buses with safety systems that help prevent rollover accidents through computer-controlled braking, ...
Honda wins appeal of small-claims hybrid judgment
A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker ...
Electric Toyota RAV4 to start near $50,000
Toyota's electric RAV4 will save you gas. But it'll cost you. Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday the electric version of its RAV4 SUV will cost $49,800 ...
Self-driving cars set for test drive in Nevada
Nevada drivers could soon be sharing the road with vehicles that don't need them. Department of Motor Vehicles officials said Monday they've issued ...
China's dream of electric car leadership elusive
China's leaders are finding it's a lot tougher to create a world-beating electric car industry than they hoped. In 2009, they announced bold plans to ...
Honda appeal seeks to reverse hybrid owner's award
Lawyers for American Honda Motor Co. returned to court Thursday to try to overturn a highly publicized small claims court award to a woman who sued ...
Hybrid and electric cars see record sales in March
Americans are buying record numbers of hybrid and electric cars as gas prices climb and new models arrive in showrooms, giving the vehicles their ...
Calif. settlement will fund car charging network
An energy company accused of artificially inflating the cost of electricity, leading to California's power crisis a decade ago, agreed to pay a $120 ...
NRG settlement to fund CA car charging network
NRG Energy Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a dispute over long-term contracts signed during California's energy crisis 10 years ago, and ...
First big piece of 'Electric Highway' gets juice
Following a trail blazed by Indians and pioneers in covered wagons, electric car drivers hit the road Friday to inaugurate the first major section of ...
Carmakers: Target distracting handheld devices
Drivers will switch from using distracting devices built into car dashboards to using even more distracting handheld devices unless the government ...
More natural gas vehicles hitting the market
More natural gas-powered vehicles will hit the market soon, as rising gasoline prices, booming natural gas production and proposed tax credits make ...
Obama urges shift to new energy technologies
President Barack Obama on Wednesday made his most urgent appeal yet for the nation to wean itself from oil, calling it a "fuel of the past" and ...
Congress debates rise in gas prices _ again
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are again battling over rising gas prices. At a hearing Wednesday, Republicans and oil industry leaders called ...
Austerity brings smaller cars to Geneva auto show
Automakers are thinking small — in size, not ambition. After years marked by environmental concerns, then the economic downturn and now European ...
GM to suspend production of Chevrolet Volt
General Motors Co. is suspending production of its Chevrolet Volt electric car for five weeks amid disappointing sales. A GM spokesman said Friday ...
Rules to prevent car back-over deaths delayed
Rules aimed at helping drivers avoid unintentionally backing over children, already overdue, are being delayed again following complaints from ...
US rules to prevent car back-over deaths delayed
U.S. rules aimed at preventing drivers from backing over children and others by requiring automakers to include rearview cameras on many new vehicles ...
Google: Technology is making science fiction real
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality — meaning ...
Gingrich: Obama has 'anti-American' energy policy
Newt Gingrich is asserting that President Barack Obama pursues an "outrageously anti-American" energy policy that snubs the Keystone oil pipeline and ...
Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
Nevada is envisioning a day when taxicabs might shuttle fares without a driver, or people with medical conditions that make them ineligible for a ...
Curb the car dashboard technology, government asks
Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surfing, the government says, and it's asking carmakers to ...
California passes new auto emission rules
Seeking to influence other states and Washington, California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday that include a mandate to ...