The documentary who killed the Electric Car? accused General Motors of conspiring with the oil industry and politicians to shelve its popular and promising EV1 in the 1990s. How things have changed.

I understand that my electric vehicle (EV) has a regular 12-volt lead-acid battery. What does it do and what happens if this battery goes dead or if the alternator fails? Just as it is in any other ...

For the model year 2011, General Motors (GM +0.41%) launched its long-planned Chevrolet Volt. Combining an electric motor and a 16 kWh battery pack with a four-cylinder gas engine, the Volt became one ...