The future of the automobile was sealed at North America’s biggest auto show that week, where all of the hottest new cars and concepts had extension cords. Any notion that ethanol or hydrogen will lead us past petroleum was tossed out the window, as the big automakers — hobbled by a brutal...

We’ve known since June that PSA has an agreement with Mitsubishi to work together on electric cars. What’s new is a report in the Nikkei (subs req’d) about Mitsubishi supplying the all-electric MiEV to PSA an OEM agreement to be sold under the PSA brands Peugeot and Citroën. This is...