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That's just one of countless questions that needs an answer before plug-in cars can truly take their place on American roads. Certainly, electric cars have at least one built-in advantage: The electrical grid already exists. Other auto alternatives, like hydrogen fuel cells, would require the development of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is America Ready to Drive Electric? | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

The first changes would have to be in pricing and delivery. Most of the U.S. utility system is extraordinarily dumb - using 19th-century technology to run 21st-century applications. In real-time, utilities rarely know how much electricity any given customer is using, or when. Even though electric cars use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is America Ready to Drive Electric? | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

A shift to plug-in cars could also help the development of renewable power, all the more important since a proliferation of electric cars would alter the national pattern of carbon emissions - the utility sector would take on the emissions that once belonged oil-based transport. While a power grid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is America Ready to Drive Electric? | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

The Toxic Avenger was one of the first. I rented a lot of the B movies that didn't make it to my neighborhood. The drive-ins had closed down and there wasn't the direct-to-video market yet, so there wasn't much of a home for movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

As a result, bankers and money managers - not traditionally associated with feminist causes - are helping to power the region's slow-burn gender revolution. Investment firms like Merrill Lynch and private banks like the Swiss firm Clariden Leu have targeted Gulf millionairesses, some flying advisers out for teach-ins. Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Women's Money Talks | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

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