Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Even the most fossil-fuel entrenched oil and gas production facilities have gone digital due to the remote nature of their locations. They simply have no access to any grid electrical power. Vital ...

We talk a lot at SHIFT about materials innovation, especially advancements in battery ingredients, size, and range. Battery electric cars are growing mainstream with firm commitments from OEMs to ...

When you write about electric cars, sooner or later you get that question: Why can’t we just slap a bunch of solar panels on an EV and enjoy near-unlimited range? Whither the solar cars? The flip ...

After a very long wait, Aptera’s solar car is finally rolling and ready for journalist drives. So we headed down to San Diego ...

Saif, a car fanatic, attributes his love for classic muscle cars and their combustion engines to spending hours learning about engines and transmissions in his father's car workshop as a child. While ...

While we at Electrek often tend to focus on electric vehicles taking over roads, it’s important to remember that our inevitable abandonment of fossil fuels stems to all modes of transportation, ...

Aptera Motors Corp. ( SEV) announced on Thursday that its solar electric vehicle has surpassed 4 kilowatt-hours of daily ...

A practical solar car has been the stuff of sci-fi, mostly relegated to proofs of concept, but lately that changed as three credible makers are putting them on the market. Long-range EV buyers who ...

Driving an electric vehicle powered by solar energy combines the climate and economic benefits of clean energy and clean transportation. “Driving on sunshine” also makes it possible for you to be self ...

There are many different ways to get to Mars, but there are always tradeoffs. Chemical propulsion, proven the most popular, can quickly get a spacecraft to the red planet. But they come at a high cost ...