Electric vehicle enthusiast Peder Nordby estimates that owners of gasoline-burning automobiles will shell out $275,000 over a 50-year period. On the flip side, Nordby suggests an electric vehicle driver that installs a 2-kW solar photovoltaic system will only pay $12,000 in "fuel" costs over the next half-century.

German automaker BMW is now officially accepting applications for the electric ActiveE coupe to be leased by 700 drivers in Boston, Hartford, New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. Here's how to get on the first-come, first-serve list.

German automaker BMW revealed that at least 200 of the VIP vehicles headed to London for the 2012 Olympic games will be of the electric-only variety. According to BMW, the key focus is to make London's Olympic Games the "greenest ever."

Tom Moloughney has put more than 70,000 miles on his EV in 2.5 years, and now he's trading it in--for BMW's Series-1 ActiveE.

What's the secret sauce of electric cars? In a speed-obsessed society, you’d expect it to be acceleration—which most EVs have in spades. But actually the thing that distinguishes one electric car from one another is not how quickly it gets going, but the way it stops. In recent weeks, I’ve reached out to engineers from BMW, Ford, Toyota, Honda and Tesla to learn about each company’s approach to regenerative braking—the system that provides the feel or flavor of their electric cars.