“PLEASE erase your image of electric cars being like golf carts,” a spokesman for Japan’s fourth-biggest car maker said before taking a zero emission vehicle out for a spin.

Source: news.com.au

TOKYO, Dec. 26 (UPI) — Japan’s government has rekindled its efforts to expand solar power.

Source: www.upi.com

Hiroshi Shimizo, a professor at Keio University in Japan, talks about Eliica, an electric car powered by lithium ion batteries he has developed which has greater acceleration than a Porsche 911.

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Better Place, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Honda will participate in trial to test network of electric car charging stations at government buildings to promote electric car sales.

Source: news.cnet.com