Green Car News

You have to give Audi credit. When they decide to do something, they go all in. It was just last fall that they showed off the e-Tron, their electric supercar based on the R8 sports coupe. Now, we learn that there will be a range of e-Trons offered, though in small numbers. As we noted last week...

Better Place had made news on many occasions for some outlandish claims and also for demonstrating technology that most people think may never work.  However, the mere fact that they continue to make headlines means that the company is important to the electric vehicle community and should not be...

Memorandums of Understanding are popping up everywhere.  Referred to as a MoU, these agreements set forth the groundwork and lay out guidelines for adoption of electric vehicles.  Nissan is the king of the MoU as they appear to have signed one with virtually everyone, but Mitsubishi is not far...

Much has been written about U.S. car buyers' aversion to hatchbacks, with many citing the relative sales of the Volkswagen Jetta four-door sedan over its five-door Golf counterpart. It appears Lexus has taken that attitude to heart. At next month's Geneva Motor Show, it will launch a new, dedicated...

Citing Hybrid Technology As To Expensive, Scion Remains Gas Powered

Despite the appealing 2010 Milan Hybrid, the Mercury brand hardly springs to mind when you think "green car". In fact, it hardly springs to mind, period; Ford's upmarket brand has languished for years with little product and even less attention. Now that's going to change. Ford confirmed yesterday...

Sometimes finding out about vehicles that automakers are working on for future release is much more involved then attending an auto show or reading a press release.  Sometimes, journalists go digging through patent filings and turn up the results they are looking for.  Apparently that is just...

With Toyota constantly adding more and more hybrid models each year, the inevitable question has popped up.  When will the Scion brand see its first hybrid model?  The answer for now appears to be never. According to Jack Hollis, vice president of Scion Motor Sales U.S.A, who spokes recently with...

GM Tries To Retain Its Customers

The Ford Transit Connect EV will be one of the company's first electric drive vehicles.  It is expected to come to market near the end of the year.  Up until a few days ago, little was known about specific data of the Transit EV.  Now that has all changed. With the Transit Connect EV scheduled...

Pretty much every manufacturer is now at least experimenting with hybrid cars. The bulk of them use a high-voltage battery pack to store and deliver energy to supplement a gasoline engine. But in its experimental 911 GT3 R Hybrid test car, Porsche has taken a different tack toward energy...

One of the most coveted awards given to environmentally friendly vehicles will be handed out this April at the New York Auto Show.  The award is highly sought after and caps off the 2010 round of recognition for great achievements by automakers.  The award referenced is the World Green Car, part...

The largest car rental agency on the planet, Hertz, has given its approval to the concept of all-electric cars. Hertz announced today that it would make Leaf models available at selected rental locations in the U.S. and Europe, starting next year. With its 100-mile range, the five-seat Leaf would...

After the rapturous reception for three successive models of its e-Tron electric coupe concept at the Frankfurt, Los Angeles, and Detroit auto shows, Audi announced it would build and sell a small number of the electric supercars. Now we know a few more details of Audi's plans. And it seems Audi...

We'd be remiss if we didn't nod to the Vancouver Olympics, opening today, and highlight their heavy reliance on mass transit to move spectators and athletes around the scenic seaside region. In particular, we note that electric vehicles play a major role. Take, for instance, the city's streetcar...

Well, here's some good news: We have less than a year to wait before the neat little Fiat 500 hatchback goes on sale at selected Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram dealers. When it arrives, it'll be Chrysler's greenest car by a pretty big margin. EPA fuel efficiency ratings haven't yet been issued for the...

And now, for today's great green concept, we present: Overhead highway lights powered by wind turbines, which are spun by the air turbulence generated as cars and trucks whiz past at speed. Like many such concepts, this one's conceptually brilliant: Use all that wasted wind to do useful work, in...

 The Nissan Leaf is perhaps the most anticipated electric vehicle ever.  Nissan's approach and promise of providing a reasonably priced, five seat EV for the masses has drawn considerable attention.  The vehicle's expected performance numbers are well within standards of typical expectations for...

Recently we posted findings on this site from a report posted by the National Research Council.  The reports were met with great criticism for many reasons including obvious faults in calculating the future costs of lithium-ion battery.  The NRC reports stated excessively high costs for li-ion...

When Mazda launched its 2011 Mazda2 subcompact hatchback at last year's Los Angeles Auto Show, many journalists noted that the doors were locked--and the windows were tinted so no one could see inside. Why? Because Mazda hadn't finished work on the interior. Well, now it's February, and they're...