John O'Dell

John O'Dell

I’m John O’Dell – the green car guy – and for more than 25 years I’ve been an automotive writer, editor and analyst specializing in alternative vehicles and fuels.

Infiniti EVs On the Way

Infiniti EVs

Company Favors Plugless ‘Range-Extended’ Technology Infiniti is finally embracing electrification, with the first of a line of Infiniti EVs likely due within two years. The decision to start moving away from gasoline comes almost a decade after Infiniti’s parent and…

Meet MX-30, the First Mazda EV

Mazda EV

Mazda is finally entering the EV market with the MX-30, a five-seat crossover-styled hatchback that launches next year in Japan and Europe with a U.S. variant to follow. The sporty EV debuted at the Tokyo auto show this week. Mazda…

EPA vs Calif; Welcome to Pollution Limbo

Gas car ban

COMMENTARY Well, the Trump Administration has gone and undone it – revoked California’s right to set its own tougher-than-federal rules limiting vehicular pollution. I say the state’s “right” because it was, in fact, a right granted by an act of…