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July 6: The skinny from the power company

After getting a full recharge at the 120-volt wall plug in the parking garage at work I drove home and only used maybe three bars. It was about 3/4-full when I got home that night. I didn't plug it in all weekend and it still had that amount of charge when I went to Southern California Edison (SCE) for a meeting today.

What's different about electric cars this time? A column by Kevin A. Wilson

Thirteen years after the General Motors EV1 was rolled out to cheers from advocates of a revolution in the way we power automobiles, those same advocates are out front cheerleading yet another revival of an idea as old as the automobile itself: Run 'em on batteries. Batteries aren't a source of energy. They're just storage units, a convenient means of making power portable.

BMW 7-series: Seven times four equals the new flagship sedan

BMW 7-series owners are among the world's most loyal. BMW sells 10,000 to 15,000 copies of its largest sedan during a good year in the United States. It makes you wonder why the company might muck with what has often been called the world's best-handling large sedan by adding an all-wheel-drive package no one has been clamoring for.