Green Car News

A couple of weeks back, I received an invite to visit Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago. The lab spends a fair amount of time on transportation research--up to 10 percent of what the lab does revolves around transportation--as it looks towards the future of fuels used to power the...

The Chevrolet Volt isn’t the only car on the horizon for GM; it is also not the only car that has been anticipated for quite a while. The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is supposed to be quite the step up from the compact cars GM has produced in the past. It has been rated with top safety (more here)...

Does the 2011 Nissan Leaf leave you feeling uninspired? Does the 2011 Chevrolet Volt appear too aggressive? Is the 2011 Tesla Roadster just too sporty? Do you long for classic looks, big wheels and great all-round visibility? This weekend an electric car will be sold at an Indianan auction house...

Well, it's over. After four days of driving across the eastern half on North America, splitting time between a manual-transmission Ford Fiesta SE and an automatic-transmission Fiesta SES. We have already covered each day in individual posts this week, and now it's time for a quick wrap-up. The tour...

Thanks to Hurricane Earl's impending arrival on the East Coast, we had to cut our 2011 Ford Fiesta World Tour a day short. Our final day began in Boston, and we spent the morning driving south to New York City by way of Connecticut. We were in New Jersey around lunch time, shooting pictures of the...

Picture the scene: You arrive home after a long day at work. The lights are on, the dinner is waiting for you in the oven and the kids are watching TV. Before leaving the garage, you plug in your 2011 Nissan Leaf and switch the charger on. And the whole neighborhood goes dark. Your EV was the straw...

It’s not a secret that Hawaii is keen to become the most electric car-friendly state in the whole of the U.S. And now two more electric car companies are laying a claim to the electric vehicle market in the island state. Earlier this week at the Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, the...

Epic Electric Vehicles is a little known company based in the U.S. that manufactures all sorts of electric modes of transport including boats, ATVs and now street-legal roadsters. The company’s latest effort is the new Torq three-wheeler, which kind of looks like an edgier, stripped down...

Nissan and its Infiniti luxury division may have been late to the table when it comes to hybrids but neither brand is shying away from launching a new generation of gasoline-electric vehicles. Infiniti has fired the latest round in the battle for hybrid supremacy with the unveiling of a new hybrid...

This post will be short and sweet, since we have an early wake-up call for our drive from Boston to New York City tomorrow. We began the day in Montreal, stopping by the famous Schwartz's Deli before setting out for Montpelier, Vermont. In Montpelier, we explored the picturesque city--the smallest...

We're live today in Washington, D.C., with the first High Gear Media drive of the 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. We've road-tested the similar Ford Fusion Hybrid, but the Lincoln version promises its own package of distinct styling cues and a finer interior, while still delivering the 41-mpg highway fuel...

Fear is a powerful motivator. It has been used in the past to start wars, persuade kids to study at school and of course, sell life insurance. But now GM appears to be gearing up to use the fear of running out of electricity to give the extended-range 2011 Chevrolet Volt a competitive edge over...

With several big electric vehicle launches due over the next few years and order books filling up quickly, we're sure to start seeing more of them on the roads. Research agency Pike Research has announced that combined sales of full-electric (battery electric, or BEV) vehicles and plug-in hybrid...

Range anxiety—that's the worry that people feel as they approach an electric car's driving range—has long been a bit unbecoming to discuss among fierce electric-vehicle advocates; but looking out at the general market, it's one of the most significant barriers against widespread...

Fans of the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius now have another reason to look forward to purchasing one, with news coming out this week that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a measure allowing up to 40,000 more motorists in the state of California to drive solo in carpool lanes. The bill, SB 535...

While prototypes of the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt have been running around the streets of America for the past several months, the first customer delivered car won’t be built until production officially kicks off on November 11, 2010. The information comes from people familiar with the...

OK, that headline is misleading. I just wanted to get you to click. We didn't REALLY have any misadventures in Montreal, but our time here on this leg of the Ford Fiesta World Tour has been interesting nonetheless. We started the morning at Niagara-On-The-Lake in Ontario, Canada, and then...

Recently, I went out to the Las Vegas strip to check out the new 2011 Scion tC. Actually, there were quite a few new tCs waiting for us, with each of them outfitted slightly differently. My first impression of the new 2011 Scion tC was that it seemed more aggressive and muscular. That is probably...

Everyone looks forward to a holiday, especially when it means a couple days off and some travel or relaxation. With the Labor Day weekend coming up a lot of people are traveling to other destinations. This brought the question up of what kind of car you should rent when out of town. Of course, we...

The Challenger was first introduced to the Dodge product line in 1970 as a sister car to the Plymouth Barracuda and as competition to the Mercury Cougar and Pontiac Firebird. Notice how I said the Cougar and Firebird; yes, the Challenger was supposed to be bigger and more luxurious in order to...