Who will be first to deliver a full-sized, affordable all electric car to consumers? One company quietly emerging as a strong contender for this distinction is Miles Electric Vehicles, based in Santa Monica, California.

The full-sized, freeway capable XS500,
Available late 2009 from Miles Electric Vehicles.
(Photo: Miles EV)

Through 2007 this company, founded in 2004, has delivered [...]

If you want to make money, you better have a contingency for a future where there’s global cooling, and brokers populate the streetcorners with signs that say “will trade carbon credits for food.”  No rational investor fails to prepare for likely eventualities - and the precautionary principle that informs global warming alarm will not help your portfolio when global [...]