A suite of big-name manufacturers including Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Fiat, Toyota, and Mitsubishi, have agreed on a common standard for the plugs used for charging electric vehicles.

The electric and plug-in hybrid car industry is learning the lesson of the mobile phone makers. Instead of allowing a plethora of incompatible charging plugs to sprout up, the Society of Automotive ...

Industry standards once meant that everyone had to adhere to a particular set of parameters. The same should have happened with electric cars, but history has demonstrated that it is not as easy as ...