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California Builder to Offer Pre-Wired Homes for Electric Car Owners

California-based Home builder KB Home will begin offering an option to have homes pre-wired to handle charging stations for electric vehicles, the San Jose Business Journal reported.
KB said the option is designed to ease the future installation of a station to charge an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle conveniently at home.
According to the San Jose [...]

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Study Says Big Impact of the Plug-In Hybrid Will Be Decades Away

Despite recent excitement about a type of electric car called a plug-in hybrid, such vehicles are unlikely to arrive in meaningful numbers for a few more decades, according to new analysis by the National Research Council.
The study, released on Monday, also found that the next generation of plug-in hybrids could require hundreds of billions of [...]

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Calling Your Car from Your Smartphone

Hello hybrid, this is your driver calling.
In a move that makes remote car starters seem so – well, last decade – Chevrolet will be giving owners of its new Volt hybrid a direct line to their new cars via their smartphones.
Chevrolet and OnStar announced the new smartphone application in Las Vegas, where the Consumer Electronics [...]

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Auto Industry Focused on Hybrids, Survey Says

Biodiesel technology is low on the list of priorities for auto industry research, according to a global survey of 200 senior auto executives conducted by KPMG that was released Thursday.
When asked to rate which were the most important alternative fuel technologies to the auto industry over the next five years, hybrid systems were ranked first [...]

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Who Drives a Hybrid?

Who drives hybrid automobiles? If one were to watch the annals of the Hollywood elite then it would be a safe assumption that actors of all stripes who care about the environment drive them. Were a person to watch Fox News, then it would be a safe assumption that the Liberal elite drive hybrids. The [...]

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