Back on Earth Day, April 22nd, Peapod Mobility was to begin accepting orders online for its line of Peapod neighborhood electric vehicles or NEV for short.  The announcement of accepting orders came and went with no change to their website and no place to put an order in.

Peapod, a Chrysler product line, markets several different NEVs.  They are capable of speeds up to 25 mph and can travel for as little as 2 cents per mile and have a cute, smile inducing face.  With a range of 30 miles and

Sustainable reporting is what it is all about right now. To continue our nod to the celebration of Earth Day earlier this week, we bring you a story about the next step Ford is planning to take in their green car initiative—the all-electric Ford Focus.

Earlier this month during the 2009 Denver Auto Show, I reported on Ford’s sustainability plan and the announcement that Ford will be introducing an all-electric version of the Transit Connect in the summer of 2010. This was closely followed with

We love our fellow enthusiasts over at PriusChat, the forum for all things obsessively Prius. The members know more than the rest of America put together about the Prius, its quirks, the real deal on owning one, and pretty much anything else on the Toyota Prius we could ever come up with.

To celebrate Earth Day, the site offered a live chat with Toyota's Prius Product Manager, Doug Coleman, for questions and answers on the 2010 Prius.

It is no secret that yesterday was Earth Day and there were many initiatives going on around the world to punctuate green measures that will help protect our natural environment. So, it is appropriate that this was also the day that our partner site AllCarsElectric.com was invited out to Detroit to test drive the new 2010 Toyota Prius. What could be better than rolling out on the boulevard on Earth Day than doing it in one of the green leaders

The people powered car company makes another debut just in time for Earth Day 2009. HumanCar, a company with an inspiration to make and sell electric cars that are supplemented by human power, has released their new design the Imagine PS.

The Imagine PS is classified as a NEV.  The vehicle will be featured throughout the week on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet program in Canada.

What exactly is a human powered car?  Before you think about the

Today on Earth Day Chrysler unveiled 4 all-electric Town and Country minivans that are intended for US Postal Service fleet use. Chrysler also announced it will request a Recovery Act grant to allow it to demonstrate a fleet of such vehicles to be used in mail delivery.

The US postal fleet already has 10,000 standard Chrysler minivans in use.

These new electric minivans do not have gasoline range extender, and are therefore limited to short distance driving. Chrysler

Hype maintenance can be hard work. Following the Earth Day announcement that the EEStor ultracapacitor had passed independent tests that showed it had a relative permittivity of 22,500, the automaker most closely tied to the secretive company, ZENN, has come out to say two things. First, the test results have been verified. There are a whole heap of details on the verification process in the release after the jump. Second, ZENN says that the results mean it will pay EEStor another $700,000 U.S. "in accordance with the Technology Agreement between the two