Yeah, some electric cars are cool. The Telsa's pretty damn rapid, but when it comes to being the king of awesome battery-driven cars, this insane electric monster truck literally destroys the competition. Read More >>

One thing's for sure, out of all the tech industry's ravenous advancements, battery tech has been the slowest to evolve. We're basically still using the same lithium-ion batteries we were 10 years ago, and we all know how battery life sucks. Now Toyota may have the answer, and it looks like it's going to double battery capacity. Read More >>

Electric cars -- they're ugly, have rubbish range, and quite frankly are a snooze-fest (apart from the Tesla that is), or at least that's what you'd think. The RAC Future Car Challenge is attempting to change that perception, with awesome electric, hydrogen and random prototype eco-cars, but has it worked? I took part, joined by none other than venerable Robert Llewellyn (aka Kryten from Red Dwarf, or Mr. Scrapheap Challenge) to find out. Read More >>

Electric cars are pretty awesome for the most part. Like-for-like they're more powerful; putting down maximum power from the moment you hit the loud pedal. They're "green" too, I guess, but range has always been an issue. What if you could just park in a robotic garage for five minutes and get your old, depleted battery swapped for a freshly charged new one, ready to hit the road? That's what Israel's doing. Read More >>

Decent, all-electric cars so far have looked pretty awesome. We've got the Tesla and the Fisker, but on the other hand we have the horrible Gwhiz, the ugly Nissan Leaf, and now the hideous Eggasus -- would you even be caught dead in that thing? Read More >>

One of the biggest issues preventing the electric car from taking over the roads is their incredibly limited battery life. But researchers at the Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan have demonstrated a new system that could let electric cars constantly recharge while they're being driven. Read More >>

Electric cars are all the rage, or at least they're trying to be. We've got the Nissan Leaf, the Renault Fluence, and even the lust-worthy Tesla, but did you know the first electric taxi actually cropped up in London back in 1897, looking like a weird carriage without the horse. Read More >>

In a publicity stunt to demonstrate just how quickly an electric car can accelerate, Smart created this unique test drive where a couple of electric Fortwos were used as controllers in a giant game of Pong. Read More >>

Well, this is an exciting bit of news for green drivers. Envia Systems has come up with a new battery technology that could give a £20,000 electric car a range of 300 miles to a charge. Yes, please? Read More >>

MIT's city car concept has been in the pipeline for a long time, but until now there's been nothing other than illustrations and half-size models. Now, however, the real thing is here, and it's about to go into testing in Europe. Read More >>

A company with the descriptive name of ChargeMaster has flipped switches on 150 new electric car charging stations, with plans to get another 300 online every month until some 4000 are dotted about the country by the end of 2012. Read More >>

And they say electric cars don't go fast. A group of BYU engineering students have built an electric streamliner that peaked at speeds of 175 mph. With that quiet electric motor I'll bet the "whoosh" it makes is gorgeous. Read More >>

While Paris isn't nearly as god-awful as Mexico City in terms of traffic, it's by no means a commuter's Shangri-La. So, Parisian officials are testing a new fleet of electric four-seaters to ease its congestion woes. Read More >>