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Students in Sweden showed off creative designs for energy efficient, battery-powered rail vehicles at the Delsbo Electric competition in late May. One team set a new record, for the "lowest energy consumption per person-kilometer...

The country's first all-electric school bus began transporting students to and from Kings Canyon Unified school district in central California this week...

The country's first all electric school bus began transporting students to and from Kings Canyon Unified school district in central California this week...

Nissan’s zero-emission LEAF electric vehicle may be used to power entire buildings in Japan. The car manufacturer successfully completed an early test of the ‘vehicle-to-building’ technology at the Nissan Advanced Technology...

Nissan’s zero-emission LEAF electric vehicle may be used to power entire buildings in Japan. The car manufacturer successfully completed an early test of the ‘vehicle-to-building’ technology that has been in use at...

Today Toyota and Lexus unveiled a high-tech autonomous vehicle at CES 2013 that could pave the way towards self-driving cars in the near future. Although it isn’t fully driverless, the Advanced Active Safety Research...

Toyota and Lexus just unveiled their new automated Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle for the first time today at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. The high-tech vehicle demonstrates the company’s ongoing efforts in automated...

The 2013 Honda Fit EV has just been given the EPA’s highest fuel-efficiency rating ever – 118 MPGe! The Honda Fit EV’s 20-kWh lithium-ion battery gives the electric Fit a range of 82 miles, which means that...

Ford just kicked off the 2012 Detroit Auto Show with a blast by unveiling its brand new 2013 Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid – and Inhabitat is reporting live from NAIAS to bring you an exclusive first look at this sexy...

For this week’s episode of GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show, we take you to the offices of GreenRoad, a startup that has developed a technology to help company drivers reduce crashes and cut fuel use...

California’s much-anticipated high-speed rail project is finally set to hit the tracks — starting with a 54 mile-long stretch of railway set to be laid down in the Central Valley...

You might love your Prius, but you might love it just a little bit more if you could plug it into an outlet and it got 100 MPG. Enter Green Gears, a garage in San Francisco run by Pat Cadam, which for several thousand dollars...

Fans of the hypermiling super-modded Aerocivic, meet its motorcycle counterpart! Designed and built by velomobile enthusiast Allert Jacobs, this streamlined recumbent motorcycle has been outfitted with an aerodynamic fairing...

Personal flying vehicles may be a bit on the esoteric end of the transportation field, but they are still fun nonetheless. Earlier this year, two single-seat lightweight aircraft made their maiden flights from the British...

What do you get when you cross a bicycle with an electric scooter? Probably something like Ultra Motor’s “Light Electric Vehicle,” the A2B...