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Chrysler has released their new 5-year plan to get back in the black. While the plan talks about better fuel efficiency and more targeted, focused vehicle models within brands, it says absolutely nothing about electrics or hybrids.

Read More: Chrysler’s New Five Year Plan: No Eco-Vehicles

These people were willing to humiliate themselves showing off these, err, half-baked concoctions (or would that be confections). So I’m willing to make fun of them.

Here’s the gist of the whole thing: these are little electric parade cars that look like giant cupcakes with people sticking out the middle (like the dancer at the bachelor party, only not as hot). Most of them have candy hats.

Read More: The Cupcake Car - Tasty Humiliation That’s All Electric

So you borrow your friend’s Tesla Roadster and are stopped at a construction zone waiting to get through. Suddenly a jealous Toyota Prius driver rams you from behind, pushing you underneath a nature-hating SUV driver and totaling your friend’s $120,000.00 car.

Read More: Tesla Roadster Passes the Crash Test

Not rhetorically either, the little Nanos are literally catching fire. Three Tata Nanos have caught fire, reportedly, because of a short circuit in a steering column switch. As a result, the world’s cheapest car is being recalled and current showroom models are being audited.

Read More: Cheap for a Reason: Tata Nanos Bursting Into Flames

As you all may be aware, I spend a lot of time mulling over the newly-emerging technologies of the eco- and alt-fuel transportation industries. Sometimes to find out what’s coming or to try to predict what things will look like in a decade, two decades, or further out. Lately, those thoughts have focused on the one thing that all of us most often overlook, but that is essential to the comfort we have in any vehicle we drive.

Read More: The EV Dashboard of the Future, According to Me

If President Obama signs the just-passed bill from Congress which mandates funding for the Department of Energy to fund three-wheeled vehicles like the Aptera 2e and Myers Motors NMG2 could be eligible for the same kind of loans Tesla Motors just received.

Read More: Congressional Bill Passes: DOE to Begin Funding 3-Wheeled Vehicles

Google is working on a project called RechargeIT at their .org wherein the IT geeks are coming up with some smart charging software to work as a sort of localized smart grid for plug-in electric cars. The idea is to teach the car when to best charge itself so as not to overtax the grid.

Read More: Googling Your Prius - Google’s Smart Charging Software

Meet the G-3, one of three models currently offered by Global Green Cars. This one is my favorite, though I’m not sure if the cargo is included in the sale price or not. You’re looking at the most American-made small pickup truck on the market. Bar none.

Read More: Global Green Cars - Affordable American-Made Electric Vehicles

Of everything Honda will debut at the Tokyo Motor Show this month, this Skydeck concept is likely the most innovative in terms of design. This concept is literally made to showcase only one thing: Honda’s IMA technology, which will be the future of Honda’s EVs (hybrids, battery, and fuel cell).

Read More: Honda Introduces New Skydeck Concept

Another showcase at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show will be Honda’s EV-N concept. This fun little car is based on the 1960s N360 micro car. Honda has made it clear that this is a design-only car and will not likely see production, but it’s a fun concept to look over regardless.

Read More: Honda Introduces EV-N Battery Electric Concept Car