Author: By MATTHEW L. WALD

The company hopes the center will catalyze the entry of the electric car into the American market and provide as many as 6,500 manufacturing jobs.

Tesla has been seeking incentives from states to build a factory that would produce batteries for its electric cars and for use on the power grid.

As more electricity generation sources, like wind energy, become intermittent ones, E.V. charging could be a way to stabilize demand.

A solar-powered Ford C-Max concept maximizes energy by finding its own place in the sun.

High-voltage, superfast public devices are appearing more frequently, though some are more expensive for drivers than home chargers, or even gasoline.

California, New York and six other states said Thursday they would work jointly to adopt a range of measures to make it easier to own an electric car.

In an effort to avoid the huge storage tank that natural gas-powered cars usually use, a company turned to an unusual approach: burning gasoline and natural gas together.

By cutting out the bottleneck caused by converting A.C. to D.C. for battery charging, new technology allows faster E.V. charging.

An experiment with two-way chargers allows consumers to power their cars and also send power back to their electric company.

The E.P.A. has proposed new regulations that could prolong use of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in cars, delaying the acceptance of alternatives.