Investors snapped up shares of A123 Systems in their debut Thursday, showing willingness to overlook millions of dollars in losses and make a bet that next-generation battery technology will propel the cars and trucks of the future. ...more

September 25, 2009

New tax incentives to coax automakers into producing electric cars won't help consumers right away. The way to help now would be to make roads safer for the small electric vehicles currently available. ...more

March 14, 2009

Teacher Vic Nieves surveyed the scene in his classroom at Brandon High, where a dozen students - revved up and raring to race - swarmed around a 9-foot-long electric dragster suspended on a lift. ...more

March 4, 2009

Teacher Vic Nieves had modest expectations for the fledgling electric car club he sponsored in a race against a dozen other teams Feb. 14 at the University of South Florida. ...more

March 3, 2009

Teacher Vic Nieves surveyed the scene in his classroom at Brandon High, where a dozen students —revved up and raring to race — swarmed around a 9-foot-long electric dragster suspended on a lift. ...more

February 26, 2009

Chrysler said Friday it is preparing to reveal some of its plans to its dealers next week, and one dealer said they will get a look at the next-generation electric vehicles the automaker is developing. ...more

September 20, 2008

My electric bike is no batmobile, but it makes me feel like a superhero. ...more

August 16, 2008

Former Energy Department official Joseph Romm (writing in Gristmill) concisely answers the offshore drilling hoax: "... Lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling can't possibly reduce gasoline prices. After all, two years ago, we opened most of the Gulf of Mexico -- with its estimated 41 billion barrels of oil -- and oil prices then doubled." ...more

August 1, 2008

In my opinion you can't pay our police officers enough, seeing as, like the military, they are risking their lives to protect us. But there's an interesting perk that Tampa police officers enjoy that is growing by leaps and bounds. That is, it increases commensurate with gasoline prices. Many officers who live anywhere in Tampa, Hillsborough County and any adjacent county, meaning Pinellas, Pasco, Polk or Manatee, are allowed to take their cars home and their gas is paid for. ...more

July 22, 2008

Re: "Green Not So Green" in the July 18 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

July 22, 2008