When General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Volt concept car in 2007, the response was near fanatical. The company had a potential hit on its hands. Which created a problem. The Volt was radical, a bona fide technological leap forward for the stodgy Detroit company with a rep for being stuck in the 1...

: Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.comThe Tesla Roadster is a technological marvel and a damn sexy car that's quicker than a General Motors exec scrambling for a bailout. We finally got a chance to take one for a spin, and although the Roadster isn't perfect, it's fast, nimble and a lot of fun. Check out o...

We've been writing about the Tesla Roadster for more than a year, and Tesla Motors finally gave us the chance to drive one. For two hours. Around town. With a PR flack riding shotgun. Despite the short leash, we pushed the electric sports car hard enough to know it's quick, nimble and fun — but no...

Aston Martin's 700-horsepower One-77 is to cars as John Steed is to civil servants — a proper English gent quite capable of kicking your ass without so much as breaking a sweat. The super-exclusive, super-expensive supercar unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show seamlessly blends top-shelf luxury with ...

MIT's latest solar race car might look like a funky Ikea table with a hump, but don't laugh. It'll do 90 mph and is packed with technology that may end up in the hybrids and EVs the rest of us will soon be driving. The university's Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such team in the country, un...

Ryanair has insulted and mocked an Irish blogger who thought he'd discovered a flaw in the airline's website, calling him an "idiot" and a "lunatic" and chastising him for his ''pathetic life." At least one employee of the budget airline posted the acerbic comments in response to Jason Roe's post de...

Those lucky SOBs over at Road & Track got to drive the Aptera 2e and say it's a pretty sweet drive and an honest-to-goodness car from a company that knows what it's doing. The 2e is an all-electric three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200 mpg and goes 100 miles on a charge. Apter...

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a shock absorber that harnesses energy as it smooths your ride, and they say it can improve fuel efficiency by as much as 10 percent. The regenerative shock absorber uses the oscillations of a vehicle's suspension to generate elect...

Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM promises to mass-produce the all-electric race-ready off-road motorcycle we told you about, and it plans to have the bike in showrooms next year. The news was buried deep inside KTM's otherwise bleak financial report, which plainly says of the bike, "mass-pr...

British entrepreneur Azhar Hussain doesn't believe going fast and going green are mutually exclusive. The businessman has developed an all-electric race-ready motorcycle capable of swift acceleration and remarkable velocity, and he'll showcase it at the zero-emissions alt-fuel <em>grand prix&l...