Experiments with electric propulsion have been around nearly as long as the dawn of the car industry in the early 1900s, a Progress Energy expert Mike Waters told Pasco county commissioners at a Tuesday workshop. It wasn't until the 1920s when cheap gasoline led to total dominance of the market by the internal combustion engine. ...more

November 14, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - On a modest rectangle of land on U.S. 41 where Golf Car Depot hangs its Pasco shingle, two things, intensely related, happened on a recent Saturday coinciding with the publishing of a breathtaking editorial in The Wall Street Journal. ...more

October 28, 2009

Tesla Motors unveiled a more family-friendly electric vehicle Thursday in Hawthorne, Calif., that will go on sale by 2011. ...more

March 27, 2009

The U.S. auto industry needs even more help from the government to survive than originally thought. General Motors on Tuesday said it could need up to $30 billion from the Treasury Department to keep operating. Included in that amount is $13.4 billion the company has already received. Previously, GM had said it could need as much as $18 billion. ...more

February 17, 2009

In a city famed for its Hellenic heritage, it should be no surprise to see police gliding by on a platform that looks like a chariot. ...more

November 1, 2008

Chrysler LLC said Tuesday it will put an electric car on sale in North America in 2010, revealing that despite missing out on the buzz surrounding the Chevrolet Volt, it is neck and neck with General Motors Corp. in the race to put a mass-produced electric vehicle on America's roads. ...more

September 24, 2008

When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city. ...more

August 16, 2008

Peter Drucker said, "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." ...more

June 22, 2008

Politicians on both sides of the aisle make claims for the need of a U.S. energy policy. Yet, all they have given us is a slightly raised fuel economy standard for automobiles and a nebulous list of items, some ridiculous and others unattainable. They include subsidies for ethanol, coal, landfills and nuclear industries. All of which have dire negative aspects and are couched around our supposed "addiction to foreign oil." Many of the plans enrich them that's got and harms most, the majority of average Americans. ...more

May 30, 2008