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Taking a break from a grueling cross-country road trip and testing trip, a team of Lotus techs driving a pair of brand-new Evoras stopped by a local car show in Southern California this weekend to show off the hot new 2+2s. Starting at Lotus' U.S. headquarters in Atlanta early in the week, the team has traveled all the way across the southern U.S.

The National Science Foundation is giving $630,000 to a Michigan State University researcher to help uncover the genetic factors behind invasive plant infestations that can destroy native ecosystems.

Call 924-4832. SUNDAY, JUNE 21 - Spirit Rock Meditation Center at 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

At my feet, on a workshop floor crowded with tools and lubricants cans and subassemblies in various states of repair, stands a skinny tire, from which delicate arms of aluminum reach out to a long, low tube painted British Racing Green with a yellow central stripe.

CalFire's Donald Watt, right, fills out an inspection report for homeowner Allen Bengtson.

The Functional Skills classes at Placer High lead by teachers Heather Snow and Katy Fries pilled into rafts with the help of the wonderful guides from Sierra WhiteWater for a trip down the South Fork of the American River.

The population of the United States - and of California - is becoming older on average and also more racially and ethnically diverse.

A Southern California man who owned two Lamborghini dealerships has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for cheating the finance company that loaned him $12 million to buy sports cars and luxury cars.

As I situate myself in the driver's seat of Tesla's Model S show car -- a working model of the future-chic, fast-backed electric sedan upon which the Silicon Valley automaker now depends -- I think of all the electric-car peaceniks who would gladly throttle me to take my place as the first person outside the company to drive the car.

It's no secret that automakers are branching out to the gaming industry as a method of presenting hot new models.

It's a huge irony that many types of outdoor fun harm the very resources being used.

ALEHOUSE PRESS seeks submissions for Alehouse 2010. Now considering short essays on subjects related to poetry, especially California poets and poetry; plus book reviews of recent publications .

Here are The Chronicle's picks for nightclub happenings this weekend. Compiled by Andrew Gilbert, Justin Gillett and Mosi Reeves.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was on a short list of celebrities who ordered the super-sleek, $109,000 Tesla Roadster when the San Carlos-based electric-car maker took its first round of orders awhile back.

Remember Detroit Electric? You're forgiven if you don't. A revival of sorts of a long-since defunct manufacturer of electric cars in the early part of the 20th century, a group of investors scored the Detroit Electric naming rights and made some noise last year by claiming it would produce a plug-in electric sports car sometime this year.

We just returned from a day in northern California testdriving the new Lexus RX 450h, and as you might expect, it's a rolling encyclopedia of new-car tech.

Imagine waking up with no news. People would bustle along their busy ways without the foggiest idea there is a fire sweeping across Oklahoma, the president declared war or that a car careened into the center ...

After rereading Mitchell's 2/20/09 post, don't understand why the government is bailing out the Big Three dinosaur makers when they could be funding promising young start ups.

Mary Thompson teaches a Level One class at California College of Ayurveda in Grass Valley.