Consider yourself a lifesaver if you opt for an electric vehicle next time you buy or lease a new car. Electric cars can save millions of lives and reduce healthcare costs by improving air quality so ...

Electric commercial vehicles could reach cost parity with diesel vehicles in the 2020s. The report calls the U.S. one of the most difficult challenges for charging infrastructure. Find out which stock ...

A large majority of California's cars and trucks will be powered by electricity or hydrogen by 2050, a panel of transportation experts said Friday. The discussion, hosted by the Commonwealth Club of ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Xcel Energy today announced a new transportation vision that drives toward providing the infrastructure and energy to run all vehicles in its service area on carbon-free ...

America has a pollution problem, especially when it comes to how we get around. From our semi-trucks to trains to school buses to personal cars, we're emitting too much carbon dioxide. And it's ...

(CNN) — If gas guzzlers disappeared from US car lots by 2035 and were replaced by zero-emissions vehicles – essentially, electric cars, trucks and SUVs – the nation would see 89,300 fewer premature ...

Electric vehicles will grow from 0.7% of the global light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in 2020 to 31% in 2050, reaching 672 million EVs, predicts the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that all states follow the U.S. Clean Air Act. Three in four vehicles in the U.S. could be electric by 2050 if certain states enact California's ...

(CNN) — Hundreds of infants’ lives would be saved and millions of children would breathe easier across the US if the nation’s power grid depended on clean energy and more drivers made the switch to ...

Under an executive order, the federal government would phase out the purchase of gasoline-powered vehicles, and its buildings would be powered by wind, solar or other clean energy. By Lisa Friedman ...