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I try to refrain from getting too political here, but there is enough technology in this disaster and I feel strongly enough about it that I need to say something.

Just about every plan that BP has thought up involves recovering the oil. Are they more concerned about tapping the black gold or fixing the environmental [...]

GM has halted work on the factory that is to produce the engine for the Volt. This is absolutely the last thing they should be doing right now. They need to commit 100% to the Volt at the expense of all else. I don’t care if they halt every other production line and sell every [...]

Every time a new electric vehicle is announced or I see more information I get excited. The Mini Cooper is a letdown, however. There will only be 500 of them, their US market will be limited, and the cost is beyond reasonable. The Electric Car Blog has more details including cost on it along with [...]

Battery technology is possibly one of the hottest areas of research today, at least in terms of practical application. The three most influencial sources for demand are electric cars, laptops, and cellphone/media player/gadgets. I group the last together because there is little significant difference between them as far as battery technology goes. The cellphone, media [...]

I saw an article on CNN today called NASCAR, meet the electric Chevy Volt. I have been watching the Volt story unfold and am very excited about it. I couldn’t wait, however, so I just swapped my 24MPG car for something that gets 36MPG. Some highlights from the article include, as I had hoped, an [...]

I’ve talk to a few so-called environmentalists who are against the plug-in hybrid. “Where do you think the electricity comes from?” is their rhetorical question. The problem with them is that they don’t realize about things like efficiency. Even in gasoline engines there is an efficiency factor that can’t be denied. A typical lawn mower [...]