Category: Electric Car News

With more energy efficient car options available than ever before, the number choices can be daunting. Here’s where two green car rating agencies’ picks coincided.

Some drivers have expressed doubts about the viability of using the vehicles, arguing that any charging break would undercut earnings.

Austin-based Community Cars hopes to begin building the Kenguru, a wheelchair-accessible single-passenger vehicle, later this year.

8:29 a.m. | Updated WHITE MARSH, Md. – Electric cars can take a while to charge. In part, that’s because the alternating current electricity that comes from the grid has to be converted to direct current before a car’s batteries can store it, and the capacity of the electronics that make the A.C.-to-D.C. conversion is a bottleneck.

For years, Stacy Zoern, a Texas lawyer who lives alone and uses a 400-pound power wheelchair, yearned for more independence. Because of a neuromuscular condition, Ms. Zoern, 33, has never walked, and for a while drove a custom van. But the van was destroyed in a crash, and she didn’t have $80,000 to buy another. “I was feeling frustrated and stagnant,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in Austin. “I was so sick of being dependent on others t...