Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk joined us on Thursday for a detailed discussion of his business plan and his vision for the electric car future. One outstanding issue for him remains whether he can make his cars affordable for average people – the original Roadster costs $109,000, and even his forthcoming Model S will cost about $50,000.

With auto dealerships collapsing, we look at the wild history of car sales and salesmen – all the way back to selling ponies.

Days of reckoning in Detroit. With gas topping $4, and Ford announcing historic changes, we look at shrinking American cars and carmakers, and whether they can make the turn.

As stock markets around Asia and the world headed south today, India’s finance minister tried to calm the selling: “Look,” he said, “India’s economy is headed for a booming 9 percent growth this year.” So he hopes.
And what will Indians spend that plenty on? India’s industrial giant Tata hopes they will soon be spending it [...]

The warning bells could hardly be louder: oil at $90 dollars a barrel on Friday and polar bears bobbing on too little ice.
If global warming and war in the Middle East were provoked by a century of fossil fuels and cars, just maybe changing cars can change the problem.
The race is on for cars that [...]