There’s an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal (sorry, by subscription only) today on an electric dragster that can do a quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds. It accelerates to 60mph in 3 seconds, ...

Over the last few years it’s become increasingly clear that anything a gas-powered car can do on the road, an EV can, too. And now this is starting to become true on the race track as well. The latest ...

Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...

Remember the all-electric Chevrolet eCOPO Camaro? Yeah, Ford has something to rival it. On Thursday, the Blue Oval revealed the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400, which marks the first time Ford Performance ...

The last couple years have made clear that high-performance and zero emissions don’t have to be mutually exclusive. The latest proof: Ford’s second all-electric Mustang. If the Detroit-based automaker ...

On today’s Sustainable Living Program (11/23/15) we started with an unusual topic for sustainability: drag racing. Our first guest was Big Daddy Don Garlits and mainly we talked about his 1,500 KW ...

On the 50th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing, last Saturday, another kind of new record hit the electric car community. Legendary drag-racer Don Garlits, who was setting racing records ...

Nowhere is the silence of electric vehicles more apparent than at the dragstrip. When Top Fuel cars regularly hit 150 decibels and shake your body to its core, their electric equivalents sail down the ...

Big Daddy is still the one to beat. Fifty years after he became the first drag racer to break 200 miles per hour in the quarter-mile, Don Garlits is aiming to hit that mark again -- only this time in ...

Steve Huff's all-electric dragster, aptly name 'Current Technology' is likely to have a new spot in the Guinness Book of World Records at some point in the future. The car makes history as the first ...

The man often called "the Thomas Edison of electric drag racing" has shattered his own top speed record by more than half a second, tearing through the quarter mile at 8.10 seconds and soundly ...