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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 ...
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 ...
Stronger Toyota helps boost US auto sales in April
Toyota is back. It's putting a year of earthquake-related shortages behind it and grabbing sales from stumbling General Motors and Ford.
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 ...
Nissan wants to woo more US car buyers
Mention Nissan to most car drivers and they think of the Altima. And not much else. The sedan is America's second-best selling car and Nissan's top ...
Excerpts from Supreme Court health care arguments
Excerpts from Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments over whether the provision in President Barack Obama's health care law that forces Americans to carry ...
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 ...
Judge in California OKs Honda mileage settlement
A judge approved a settlement Friday to give owners of Honda Civic hybrids up to $200 each over claims that the fuel economy of the cars was inflated, ...
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 ...
Judge urged to reconsider Honda settlement
A San Diego judge is giving no signs that he will reconsider his tentative approval of a settlement agreement that would give owners of Honda Civic ...
Forbes tally grows to 1,226 billionaires globally
One made the list on the strength of girdle sales, another powered by electric sports cars. Still others lost billions or fell off the list altogether ...
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 ...
As gas prices rise, Detroit is ready
Gas prices are spiking. But this time, Detroit is ready. When prices soared in 2008, the city's three U.S. automakers were caught flat-footed.
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 ...
5 states may intervene in Honda hybrid settlement
A judge on Tuesday granted California and four other states more time to consider objecting to a class-action settlement between Honda Motor Co.
Calif. may intervene in Honda hybrid settlement
California's Department of Justice is considering whether to object to a proposed class-action settlement between Honda and car owners over inflated ...
Japan's industrial output rebounds 4 percent
Japan's industrial production rebounded 4 percent in December from November and household spending increased, suggesting the still-weak economy is ...
Car makers support Calif.'s new 'clean car' regs
Automakers expressed qualified support for California's proposed rules to require carmakers to build more electric and other less-polluting hybrid ...
Court delays ruling on Honda hybrid suit
An unusual small claims lawsuit by a Honda hybrid owner took another complicated turn Wednesday with additional arguments that prompted a commissioner ...