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LG, Panasonic and others bring digital energy equipment for the home to CES to show off connected appliances, home energy management systems and energy-efficiency gear.

The Chevy Volt is as much a software engineering accomplishment as it was a mechanical engineering challenge, according to General Motors.

Drivers set off from Geneva on Monday for a round-the-world rally in solar-powered vehicles to showcase the potential of electric vehicles.

Three and a half years after unveiling a concept version of the Chevy Volt range-extended electric car, General Motors is finally answering the question of its price.

Late on Tuesday, and after much speculation, Toyota finally issued recall notices for its third-generation Prius hybrid hatchback. Given that this recall affects some 2400 Aussies, plus this writer, I paused to give this whole mess a bit of thought.

Biofuel start-up LS9 and California researchers have achieved a breakthrough in converting non-food biomass into biodiesel using a genetically modified form of E. coli bacteria.

Ford, in the US at least, is making its vehicles an internet application platform by giving drivers access to streaming media and other smartphone applications.

An army of electric vehicle prototypes, as well as a number of on-sale cars, descended on Detroit to show what an electrified future might look like.

Electric vehicles are clearly the favoured technology for concept cars at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week. But Toyota, the leader in hybrid cars, thinks that the high cost of the Lithium-ion batteries will keep electric cars from penetrating the mass market for another decade.

Better Place founder Shai Agassi is ready to show off his software industry experience to improve electric vehicles. At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the electric car service company will show off in-car software designed to ensure that electric car drivers have enough charge to keep driving.

Beginning in 2010, Better Place will test its battery-swapping service with electric cars used as taxis in Tokyo.

You could call electric car company Coda Automotive the anti-Tesla. The company has unveiled a four-door electric car based on a made-in-China sedan and hopes to begin deliveries in California by 2010.

On Tuesday Better Place showed off an automated electric vehicle battery-swapping station, which takes about one minute to remove a depleted battery and slip a fresh one in.

Shai Agassi is famously persuasive. With just an idea, he was able to raise US$300 million to launch Better Place, a venture that plans to build electric car charging spots and battery switching stations in Israel, Denmark, Australia, San Francisco and many other places.