There is a rumor concerning the European version of the Chevrolet Volt running around, and I say this with a bit of a clench because i know that the newspaper behind hasn’t always proved to be the best of reliable sources.

Opel Ampera

The newspaper quoted for this rumor is the British print from “The Telegraph” and they have some interesting stuff to say on the Opel Ampera.

The Opel Ampera is

Zipcar, the world's largest car club sharing operator has teamed up with the Westminster City Council in central London to offer its car sharing members environmentally friendly car choices.

The car sharing club has added 20 different hybrid vehicles and 1 full EV to its lineup of available vehicles.  Some of the hybrid models include a plug-in Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight.The sole electric vehicle at the moment is the Citreon c1.

The addition of

"What would Google do?" is not only a meme in media theory but the title of a Jeff Jarvis book, where he uses the question as shorthand for looking at old problems in new ways.

Now Mike and Maaike, the pair of designers who created Google's G1 phone (the first based on its Android software), have taken a crack at another old problem: What should the car of the future look like?

Their answer is something like a glass-walled seating area, electrically

Japan Post Service Co.,  (the part of Japan Post Group responsible for mail delivery) is expected to start 5-year lease terms on 40 electric vehicles by the end of July.  The company will utilize 20 Mitsubishi MiEVs and 20 Subaru Stellas primarily in Kanagawa Prefecture where some charging infrastructure already exists.

The mail service will also try nine battery powered trucks with solar panels on top and several single seat vehicles based on the Ultra Small Electric Vehicle

China clearly sees EVs as a major player in the future auto industry.  To achieve widespread adoption within their country, the government has kicked off several new incentive programs and has begun to increase manufacturing capacity and build new R&D facilities.

In December the cities of Denver, Colorado and Chongqing, China along with the help of Ford Motor Company and Chinese automaker Chang an Group signed an agreement that the four parties will work on

Bolstered  by the sales of the Ford Fusion hybrid and recent introduction of the new Prius hybrid, sales of hybrid models as a whole are still on the rise despite dwindling sales in other vehicle segments.

Overall, hybrid sales are up 9 percent this June compared to last year and up an additional 2 percent compared to May.  New cars sales as whole are down 28 percent from last June and 7 percent from May of this year.  How can hybrid models far so well in this

Volkswagen will unveil its first electric car by 2013, said CEO Martin Winterkorn on Friday. Winterkorn espouses the electric car movement, but has previously mentioned that he thinks it will take 15 to 20 years before EVs comprise a significant fraction of the market.

That won't stop VW from forging ahead with plans to control 1.0 to 1.5% of the global EV market by 2020. "We are going to use our New Small Family line to offer our first electric vehicle in 2013. And in 10 years at the latest we want to

The city of Santa Monica has purchased the first 2009 model all electric truck built in the United States.  Named the ZeroTruck, its the only electric truck in production in the U.S. in 2009.

The truck will see use by city workers and is thus equipped for duty with a Scelzi utility body.  The medium duty electric truck has the underpinnings of and Isuzu N series vehicle, but it retrofitted with its EV hardware for zero emission use.

It has a range of 100 miles on a full