Green Car News

Yesterday we drove the 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric, and later today we'll have a drive report for you. But if you'd rather not wait until November or December for to buy Ford's first-ever electric vehicle, perhaps you'd consider a slightly used electric car on eBay? This 1918 Rauch and Lang...

LG Chem. is quickly becoming one of the world's largest suppliers of lithium-ion batteries for advanced vehicles.  Now they can add Changan Automobile to the growing list of automakers that they supply batteries to.  The list includes General Motors and Hyundai right now, but the company is also...

Honda had initially set a sales goal of the newly redesigned Honda Insight at 200,000 units in 2010, its first full year of production.  The number is certainly a high target to aim for.  Last year, the company sold 130,445 total units worldwide since the Insight's introduction which began in...

The Chicago Auto Show is traditionally all about trucks, and in this slow year it's pretty light on green cars. A welcome exception comes from Korean maker Kia, who just unveiled their Ray plug-in hybrid concept car. The Ray points the way toward a stylish compact four-door sedan that's both...

Sometimes automakers issue a press release with only a tidbit of information and an image of a portion of an car.  These releases, referred to as teasers, don't give you much to go on but are interesting nonetheless.  A teaser gives just a glimpse of a vehicle or a speck of information to go by...

It’s impossible not to eavesdrop on the other parents’ conversations when I pick up my kindergartener from school. It’s a wholly unscientific but usually accurate way to find out what’s top-of-mind with people here in the Midwest — unemployment, strep throat, American Idol, and the auto...

More Cars Get Added To the Toyota Recall List

Everything you need to know about the recalls affecting the 2010 Toyota Prius, and the 2004-2009 Prius too

As expected, Toyota has announced a recall for its 2010 Toyota Prius and 2010 Lexus HS 250h models to update the anti-lock braking system (ABS) software. The new software improves the response time of the anti-lock system and alters its sensitivity to tire slippage. The update is intended to reduce...

Toyota has been criticized in media reports for their slow response to claims of accelerator pedal troubles that forced the company to recall millions of vehicles, but their response to the potential braking issues with the Toyota Prius can be considered immediate.  Toyota has already contacted...

It's long been known that Ford's first electric car would actually be a truck. Now, we have all the details of the 2011 Ford Transit Connect Electric, an all-electric conversion of the Transit Connect commercial van that offers a range of up to 80 miles on a full charge. The 2011 Transit Connect...

Euro Spec Version Adds a Two Plus Two Configuration

So what exactly IS a "green car"? At both the Los Angeles Auto Show and Detroit Auto Show, you could find the word "green" all over the place. LA has been pitching itself for years as the greenest auto show, with fewer muscle cars and more hybrids, clean diesels, and so forth than any other U.S...

Many reviewers lauded the new, third generation 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid when it launched last spring--but wondered why it didn't use a lithium-ion battery, rather than 15-year-old nickel-metal-hydride technology. Now we learn that the 2010 Prius was indeed supposed to have a new, more energy-dense...

Toyota has taken its share of the beating from the press lately in regards to the accelerator pedal recall that has affected millions of vehicles, but the company's troubles may still be far from over.  According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the company may be on the brink of issuing...

Former Governor of New York City George Pataki made an appearance at the Washington Auto Show awhile back.  At the show, he made a bold statement that he hopes will ring true.  Pataki called for 40% of all the vehicles on the roads in 2020 to be electric vehicles.  His numbers are significantly...

One of our favorite cars from the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show was the CMT-380 supercar concept from Capstone Turbine. To show off potential automotive uses for its C30 micro-turbine, it built an extended-range electric car using the turbine to add up to 500 miles to the 80-mile range of its...

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The Toyota recalls have made headline stories for at least a week now.  The company is working feverishly to fix the problems and rebuild a possibly tarnished image.  Just when things could not possibly get any worst for Toyota, they just did. According to the New...

Before either car launched, the 2010 Toyota Prius and 2010 Honda Insight were viewed as natural rivals. Would the third generation of Toyota's definitive hybrid be threatened by Honda's "least expensive hybrid", which too offered five doors and good gas mileage? What a difference a year makes...

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The lease of the prototype Mini E has been a success.  BMW discussed some of their results from the field testing program of the Mini E and opened their press conference with the headline, "Mini E Drivers Delighted with Electric Vehicle Experience." The Mini E lease...