Zipcar members in San Francisco, Portland and Boston can try out Toyota’s Prius plug-in hybrid, providing valuable info to Toyota before rolling the cars out to consumers in 2012. And Zipcar gets another way to make its greenho…
The automaker has licensed technology from the Energy Department’s Argonne National Laboratory that will boost the performance of lithium-ion battery cells for its electric Chevy Volt. The next-generation power packs will be ma…
General Electric, which is eager for a big slice of the emerging electric car market, is teaming up with a Silicon Valley startup, Better Place, to promote their charging station and battery-swapping businesses. GE gets homes f…