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Last night, Ford Motor Company kicked off their new advertising campaign focused on green technology and hybrid vehicles.  Ford choose to launch their campagign during the airing of American Idol on Fox Network.  Ford debuted three brand new comercials that are part of their new campaign called...

A British company name Romag has designed and begun building a new type of parking structure. The device is essentially parking bay that has a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel roof. Electric car drivers would park underneath and the solar energy collected above would be fed back into the car to...

  Public interest in electric and hybrid cars swelled considerably over the summer of 08 when oil touched near $150 per barrel. Subsequent economic turmoil has among other things caused a retreat in oil prices too.  Hybrid sales along with the rest of the auto sector have dropepd consdierably. ...

No sooner have we heard about a new dealership in Chicago, the scrappy California start-up electric carmaker Tesla Motors has now decided to venture farther north. The automaker has just announced they will begin selling cars in Canada as of today, with plans for first deliveries starting in the...

The hits keep coming for Chicago. First Kanye West goes triple platinum, then Barack Obama trades his Hyde Park digs for the White House and finally, Tesla Motors is making its way to the Windy City. The makers of the Tesla Roadster electric supercar, have signed a lease in the River West...

With the release of Consumer Reports annual auto issue comes an announcement that the current Toyota Prius Touring model is the best overall value amongst new cars.  For the first time ever, Consumer Reports published a new category to include the best values among new car and the Toyota Prius...

During his presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama promised to put 1 million electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on US roads by 2015. His pledge was one of an array of measures to reduce fuel consumption and work toward energy independence. But it begged the question: Is powering cars...

WinterGreen Research, Inc. has published a study purporting that 32.7 million electric vehicles will be on the roads in six years. While we couldn't check the math (the study costs $3,400 to purchase and our own math prevents us from spending that much), that sounds like a lot of electric vehicle...

Two More Companies in the Quest for an EV Solution

The new 2010 Toyota Prius is expected to hit showroom floors in June.  With the economic downturn, the new Honda Insight coming to market, and gas prices near $2, you may think that Toyota would be worried about sales of the new Prius.  However, Toyota execs are not worried.  Toyota believes...

According to Jim McDowell, chief of BMW of North America LLC's Mini Division in the U.S., the first group of lessees for the Mini EV will be named this month.  Though BMW had postponed the naming of the first lessees until April, the latest news to come forth indicates that they will be...

Nissan is planing the North American release of a 100 mile range 5-seat electric car in 2012.  These cars should have the capacity of collecting 80 miles of driving range in 30 minutes of charge time. To capitalize on that, apparently the automaker has plans to deploy a network of public charging...

Most Toyota Prius owners love their cars--not just love, but LUV. And Priuses are thick and fast on the ground in California locales like San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Santa Monica. None of those places gets snow more than once every, say, 20 years. But large swathes of the rest of the country...

Today we celebrate a unique anniversary. One hundred years ago today, US Patent No. 288,181 was granted to Henri Pieper for a "Mixed Drive for Autovehicles"--what we now call a hybrid-electric vehicle. Here's the odd part: Monsieur Pieper describes himself as "a loyal subject of the King of...

Lexus will be showing its next generation hybrid SUV at the Geneva Auto Show later this week.  The vehicle replaces the current 400h and was first unveiled at last years LA Auto Show. At that time Lexus did not release any fuel efficiency figures. The new vehicle has an extensively redesigned...

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Magna Steyr, the Austrian unit of Canadian supplier Magna International, is adding its own entry to the long list of EVs that will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Their concept, called the Mila EV, is not intended for production, but will serve as a showcase of Magna's advanced...

The 2009 Female Mechanics Calendar includes renowned Prius mechanic Carolyn Coquilette of San Francisco's Luscious Garage

Solar cars at this point are mostly science/engineering experiments and are not for public consumption.  However the progress they have made over the years since MIT first entered competition in 1987 is remarkable. The latest tenth iteration vehicle from MIT is capable of hitting 90 MPH, though it...

In our first month, GreenCarReports scored a breakout with our post on whether ethanol-powered cars are sinful for Muslims