Many people have driven electric cars--just not full-size ones. Electric-car advocates may be pulling out all the stops to get "butts in seats," but slot cars have entertained children for decades.

Sweden has developed an eroad that will charge electric vehicles like a Scalextric slot car set, including two-wheelers. The project, called eRoad Arlanda, so far consists of a 2km stretch of ...

The sport of drag racing has been with us almost as long as the automobile has. Over the last decade, advances in high-power lithium-ion batteries have given rise to a new variant: electric drag ...