Tag Archives: Alternative Fuels

Tesla Motors to expand network of charging stations

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said Thursday the electric-car company is expanding its network of “Supercharger” stations in California and across the country, and that Tesla Model S owners eventually will be able to drive from Los Angeles to New York using only the company’s network of fast charging stations.

The Supercharger stations are also adding solar power and grid storage, which means they’d be both carbon-neutral and able to function if the nation’s vast electric grid crashed.

Natural gas is the leading alternative fuel in America

In a country where corn-based ethanol incites an avalanche of controversy, you may be surprised to know that ethanol isn’t the most common alternative fuel in America. Well, not by the EIA’s accounting method, anyway.

The 134 billion gallons of gasoline that powered our vehicles last year included about 13 billion gallons of ethanol. But the Energy Information Administration doesn’t consider one drop of blended ethanol as a true alternative fuel.