
Mike Sullivan, president of LAcarGuy, announced the installation of “Level 2” Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Bloomberg reported today that Toyota plans to offer a $50,000 hydrogen-powered vehicle by 2015. The company said it has cut the cost of making hydrogen fuel cell car by 90 percent in the past five years.

Most everyone agrees that the next big leap in hybrids—the capacity to plug in to the grid and run mostly on electricity—will be expensive.

Diesel vehicles now account for nearly half of all new vehicle sales in Europe. In some European countries (such as France), diesel vehicles account for as much as 70 percent of new car sales.

For many years, new car buyers considered cup-holders more important than fuel economy. Seeing $4 gasoline in 2008 shifted those priorities.