LOS ANGELES (AP) _ With the U.S. all but certainly in a recession and many skittish consumers hesitant to buy even a Honda Accord, it would seem the last thing anyone would need is a $400,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. But sales of many high-end luxury ...

Plan for electric cars moves ahead - San Francisco Business Journal

The Bay Area is poised to become the first region in the country to fully support electric vehicles with outlets, recharging stations, and incentives coming soon. The mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose today announced a nine-point policy ...

Small is beautiful at LA Auto Show - ABS-CBN

LOS ANGELES - A grim cloud of despair may be enveloping the US auto industry but it has contained a silver lining for makers of compact fuel-efficient cars, according to exhibitors at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Cars that would once have been regarded ...

A tough auto market? Not if you're a Maserati exec - Forbes

With the U.S. all but certainly in a recession and many skittish consumers hesitant to buy even a Honda Accord, it would seem the last thing anyone would need is a $400,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom. But sales of many high-end luxury cars are bucking the ...

Bay Area's big-city mayors endorse $1 billion plan for electric cars - San Jose Mercury News

Better Place, an electric-car infrastructure company based in Palo Alto, said it would spend $1 billion to create charging stations and battery-swap outlets in the Bay Area. It also showed off a Nissan Rogue SUV, converted to become an electric ...