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Nissan Claims Its New Charging System Can Fill Up Electric Cars in Ten Minutes
We all know that one of the biggest obstacles to electric car adoption is the long, often overnight recharge time....
Today: Live Chat With GM About The Future of Batteries
PopSci talks to General Motors' director of Global Battery Systems
We Can and Should Put a Million Electric Cars on the Road by 2015
PopSci’s own senior editor (and senior car expert) Seth Fletcher has a great op-ed in the New York Times today,...
This Week in Unforeseen Consequences of Technology: Electric Vehicles Attract Rats
Your Chevy Volt may draw adoring smiles from that cute, crunchy barista you’ve been eyeing at the coffee shop, but...
GM Accelerates Rollout of the Chevy Volt
It’ll be in all 50 states by the end of the year
At Least for the Next Ten Years, “Peak Lithium” is Nonsense
At the Lithium Supply and Markets conference in Toronto, analysts make clear that until 2020 there will literally be more than enough of the element to go around
Demystifying the Chevy Volt’s Mostly-Electric Engine
A look at the inner workings of GM's plug-in car
GM’s New Battery Chemistry? It’s Already In the Chevy Volt
Yesterday, GM announced that it would start using an advanced lithium-ion electrode material developed by Argonne National Laboratory. Turns out that an early version of that material is already blended into the Volt’s batteries. But that’s not the end of the story: Expect dramatically better EV batteries based on the compound very soon
GM Is Turning Recycled Deepwater Horizon Oil Containment Booms Into New Chevy Volts
As if it further needed to drive home its eco-friendly, anti-oil message, the Chevy Volt will soon boast a body...
Never Mind the Naysayers: The Chevy Volt is Excellent
Behind the wheel, we find that GM’s highest-profile concept car has become a refreshing, radically different kind of production vehicle