Green Car News

We've written a couple of times about natural gas, "the other alternative fuel" (besides diesel). It's easy to ignore, since most of the 100,000 natural-gas vehicles in the States are commercial, including roughly one fifth of the country's transit buses. Now, a bipartisan bill has been introduced...

Zipcar, the world's largest car club sharing operator has teamed up with the Westminster City Council in central London to offer its car sharing members environmentally friendly car choices. The car sharing club has added 20 different hybrid vehicles and 1 full EV to its lineup of available...

Bolstered  by the sales of the Ford Fusion hybrid and recent introduction of the new Prius hybrid, sales of hybrid models as a whole are still on the rise despite dwindling sales in other vehicle segments. Overall, hybrid sales are up 9 percent this June compared to last year and up an additional...

Diesels have had incredible sales success over in Europe, but have never gained much popularity here in the U.S.  However, the latest round of diesels coming to the states offer up strong competition against comparative hybrid models. Some of the latest diesel variants to hit our shores include...

Even if you're not in a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, you too can grow green leaves on your dash display when you save fuel by driving with a light foot. Except in this case, the leaves appear on your iPhone 3G or 3G S, courtesy of Bliss Trek. It's the first eco-driving app for Apple's cult favorite...

Citing lower-than-expected demand and poor sales, Chrysler, owners of the low-speed neighborhood electric vehicle brand Global Electric Motorcars (GEM), looks to close 64 of its franchised retail outlets. The vehicles, which include six-passenger and utility models, are only legal for driving on...

T3 Motion, based in California, recently unveiled a new NEV called the CT3.  The CT3 is classified as a neighborhood electric vehicle or NEV and sports a three wheeled trike configuration. The CT3 is targeted towards consumers in need of around town transportation.  It sports a top speed of 45...

The world debut of the highly efficient Volvo Hybrid Double Decker bus took place in London yesterday.  In total, 6 such buses recently took to the roads in London and will service passengers along Route 141. The bus, called the Volvo B5L Hybrid Double Deck Bus brings advanced hybrid technology to...

Reading the reams of coverage pouring out on the 2010 Toyota Prius, we realized we hadn't covered one new feature that corrects an irritating problem with its predecessor, the 2004-2009 Prius hybrid. That was the earlier car's fuel "bladder" gas tank, a flexible membrane that expanded and...

As major introductions go, the Hyundai Elantra LPI Hybrid isn't that impressive. The first-ever hybrid electric vehicle introduced by automaker Hyundai will be sold only in South Korea, and its engine runs on liquified petroleum gas (LPG). While its sales goals for this Elantra Hybrid are...

The road to energy independence is quickly filling up with with many and varied concepts. Apparently Korean budget car maker Hyundai-Kia intends to muscle into a plug-in hybrid niche. According to company R&D President Yang Woong-chu, Hyundai plans to bring its Blue-Will concept into...

More than 70 years ago, during the first electric car boom in the U.S., a well known company emerged from the city of Detroit.  The company, called Detroit Electric went out of business near the onset of the Great Depression, but their name live on today. The name, now owned by a Dutch company has...

Large format battery cells will slowly gain a foothold on the automotive EV market in the coming years.  Companies such as LG Chem, A123 Systems, and EnerDel have been hard at work developing the large format automotive specific batteries, but Tesla still insists that the laptop format, as used in...

The city of Santa Monica has purchased the first 2009 model all electric truck built in the United States.  Named the ZeroTruck, its the only electric truck in production in the U.S. in 2009. The truck will see use by city workers and is thus equipped for duty with a Scelzi utility body.  The...

Japan Post Service Co.,  (the part of Japan Post Group responsible for mail delivery) is expected to start 5-year lease terms on 40 electric vehicles by the end of July.  The company will utilize 20 Mitsubishi MiEVs and 20 Subaru Stellas primarily in Kanagawa Prefecture where some charging...

The Luxury Market Goes Green

This Competition Is Being Kept In the Family

As we've said before, we cover the 2010 Lexus HS250h hybrid sedan more than any other car on this site--except, of course, the new 2010 Toyota Prius. We've now put up our review of the Lexus HS over on GreenCarReports.com, but we wanted to bring together for our AllAboutPrius.com users everything...

When we first drove the 2010 Lexus HS250h, we were puzzled by it. Neither fish nor fowl, it seemed an uneasy marriage of Lexus lines and luxury with a Toyota Prius-like dedicated hybrid shape and powertrain. We've just spent a four-day weekend with a glossy black 2010 HS250h, the Premium model with...

June marked the first time in history that a hybrid topped the list of best-selling autos, out-selling all other vehicles across Japan. In May, the third-generation Prius beat out all other cars, which doesn't include popular mini-vehicles with engine less than 660 cc. But in June, the Prius...