Range costs money, right? Now, with the looming launch of the Tesla Model S and its numerous range variations, Tesla is truly putting a price tag on range and basically asking buyers "How much are you willing to spend?" Is $10,000 too much for 70 miles of additional range? Is $20,000 acceptable for 140 miles of added range?

Swiss firm Rinspeed aims to solve the "range anxiety" issue associated with electric vehicles with its range-extending Dock+Go concept. The Dock+Go system is unique in that it's specifically designed to match the electric vehicle that it will be fitted to. Additionally, Dock+Go is easily detached when its range-extending capabilities aren't required.

Limited range is often described as the Achilles' heel of pure electric cars. For routine daily driving of my Nissan LEAF, I almost never feel impinged by its 80 or so miles of range. But once every few weeks, an additional 50 or 60 miles would come in extremely handy. BEA-tricks, a German company that sells electric car conversion kits, recently demonstrated that nearly any amount of range is possible, if cost and practicality are thrown out the door. That's great to know, but the key question remains: What's the best combination of EV range and price?

After driving my all-electric Nissan LEAF like a madman for the past few months, I decided to see how far I could go with babying the motor and batteries to extend its range. The results were fascinating. But now, I think I’ll go back my speed-demon ways.

Americans love gas stations. Europeans don't. That's why Europeans want cars with longer range, such as diesels, and why the number of gas stations on our roads is in decline. I know it's easy to plug in every night, but to many Europeans, switching from diesel to an EV would mean huge changes. That's less true for Americans.

In an effort to ease the burdens associated with range anxiety, several companies are exploring EV rescue vehicles, which are capable of quickly recharging battery-dead plug-in cars. The charge-on-the-go can send stranded electric cars back on the road in as little as 20 minutes. Most recently, Nissan announced the creation of a trial service in Japan's Kanagawa prefecture that will allow EV drivers in the area to call for a free rescue charge whenever needed.

Tesla has notified the BBC of its intent to sue the television show Top Gear for libel over what it says are misleading claims made about the Tesla Roadster in an episode that was first broadcast more than two years ago.

The Washington Post's Charles Lane wrote an article on Friday called “Cold truths about electric cars' cold-weather shortcomings.” I feel compelled to write a rebuttal article for PluginCars.com, based on real life experience, not quotes from obscure websites and “what if” conjecture. In fact, I'm offering for Mr. Lane to visit me, and ride with me for a few days, in the heart of winter, in my MINI-E electric car. At least then, when he writes about electric cars, he can do so with a little experience.

The first week of driving his Nissan LEAF was a week of epiphanies for Tom Franklin: how the gas car uses three or four times the amount of energy as his electric car; how drivers of gas cars speed down the road in a small confined space with 20 gallons of highly flammable liquid on board; and just how much infrastructure is required to keep hundreds of thousands of gas stations available for refueling. “We’re going to have to explain to our grandkids the crazy days when we had to drive cars all over town to keep them running" instead of just plugging them in.

Earlier today, Marc Geller returned a loaner Nissan LEAF after one week of driving. It was a very good thing that Nissan gave Marc a free chance behind the wheel. As the co-founder of Plug In America, and an EV driver since 2001, he knows a lot about the life electric. After all, he’s been living with an electric car as his daily driver for a nearly a decade. So what's missing on the LEAF? A simple indicate of the percentage of state-of-charge left in the battery.