Automotive Technology

Tesla's Attempt to Revolutionize the Auto Industry May Have Hit a Road Block in Texas

As they try to carve out a permanent niche in the ultra-competitive American car market, Tesla and billionaire founder Elon Musk have had to position themselves as sprightly Davids disrupting the lumbering Goliaths of Detroit and Japan. They have no other choice. They can't afford the untold billio ... More >>

A Republican State Senator is Pushing For an Increase in the Texas' Gas Tax

Texas' 20-cent-per-gallon gas tax hasn't changed since 1991. That's despite the erosion of the tax's purchasing power -- the Wall Street Journal estimates that the gas tax buys half as much concrete, steel, and other materials as they did 20 years ago -- and a glaring need -- the state comptroller's ... More >>

Texas Lawmakers Want a Ban on Texting While Driving. But Do the Bans Even Work?

In Austin yesterday, state lawmakers were joined by Texans whose family members were killed in texting-related car accidents for an emotional press conference in support of a texting-while-driving ban proposed by Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. A nearly identical ... More >>

Alt Rocks

Dallas Has Second Most EV Charging Stations. Electric Vehicles? Not so Much

It seems that a lot of electric vehicle charging stations have been popping up in Dallas of late -- at gas stations, grocery stores, possibly soon at City Hall -- and now we know that yes, there are a lot. Xatori, an app-maker, released a list yesterday of the cities with the most EV charging stati ... More >>

How Do You Get From Dallas to Houston in an Electric Car? Wait About Five Years.

When you set aside any aesthetic hangups and knee-jerk assumption that any vehicle without an internal combustion engine is a piece of junk, it's pretty hard to argue that electric cars aren't a good idea. If we're are going to drive anyway -- and current habits and decades worth of automobile-centr ... More >>

Electric Cars May Help Save the Planet, But the Morning News Thinks They're Rather Effete

As a rule, I never read the DMN's automotive section, which, in case you were wondering, is in fact a thing that exists. It's not just that the section is basically one long advertisement for vehicles I'm never going to buy or that Car Talk is infinitely better as a radio show than newspaper column. ... More >>

Before Signing Off On EV Charging Stations, the Council Breaks Down Cost of Plugging In

​On Monday the council's Transportation and Environment Committee took up the subject of setting up electric vehicle charging stations at several city facilities, including City Hall and the downtown central library. For the most part the committee was on board with the initiative, which includes ... More >>

As City Hall Looks to Add Electric Vehicles to Fleet, a Host of "Complex" Issues to Consider

Boulder Electric​On Thursday we plugged into the city's interest in setting up electric-car charging stations on city property -- at City Hall, the downtown library, Fair Park, Dallas Love Field and Dallas Executive Airport -- with partners TXU and ECOtality, the latter a San Francisco-based compa ... More >>

Charging Up City Hall: They're Plugging in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations All Over

​A couple of months back we noted that as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's $115-million EV Project, which will spend a few years analyzing if and how much folks actually charge their rides, San Francisco-based ECOtality will be plugging in electric vehicle charging stations at a handful of ... More >>

Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Coming to Fair Park As Part of Energy Dept.'s "EV Project"

​The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report's due in 2015, and Dallas is among the 18 citi ... More >>

Pile On Loads of Earthy Fun

Says GE's Electric Car Look-See, Dallas Is Tops to Plug In Before Pulling Out (Of the Driveway)

​Few weeks back we noted: TXU's setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books' Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of B ... More >>

Judge Gives City the Gas to Put CNG-Powered Taxis at the Front of the Line at Love Field

​Back in March, you may recall, cab drivers at Love Field were none too pleased with the city council's decision to give compressed natural gas-powered taxis front-o'-the-line privileges at the airport. A month later, the Association of Taxicab Operators went to federal court to block the city fro ... More >>

Dude, Where's My Car?

Where's Greggo? Hey, He's Right There!

​He's baaaaaaaaaaack! Greg Williams. Yes, that one.

From OKC to Fort Worth, Heartland Flyer's Cow Fat Test Run Gets Nod in U.K.

​Meant to point this out last week, when I first saw the story on Salon. But now it's made its way to the U.K. -- this story of the little train that could ... run on cow fat, that is, all the way from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth every single day. (Though "with stops along the way in Norman, Purce ... More >>

It Wasn't Easy Writing This Item While Stuck In Traffic. Had Two Accidents.

Allow me to quote from the source material: "In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period." So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made ... More >>

Sons, Daughters and Airplane Parts?

Everyone's Favorite Color

Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher

Big Willie Style

Willie Nelson doesn't have to continue performing—which makes his insistence to keep doing so all the more remarkable

Wine Bars Popping Up Across Dallas, Finally

Also: The Willie's Place at Carl's Corner project is back on track.

Say, That Hits the Green Spot

Alcohol and Logic Repel Each Other Like 'Border' and 'Enforcement'

A Good Egg?

Eight Is Enough

Boobin' Ball

Get beaded at the Granada

Earth Biofuels: Running Out of Gas?

Trial Lawyers Looking For Someone to Sue, Not Having Much Luck

Corndoggle

Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?

Of Nelsons Willie and Don

Thunderdome

Motorcycles take Grand Prairie

Art Attack

A sampler for the senses

Best Outboard Boat Motor Repair

Barber Boats

Speed Racer

Dude. The Fast and the Furious sports sick cars and a badass Racer X. Sweet.

Burned into memory

A county employee questions the safety of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas