Volker Morningweg, the head of Mercedes' in-house tuning division AMG has confirmed that it will introduce its first diesel model within three years. Morningweg told AutoCar that the first diesel will likely be a smaller, more efficient model rather…

Mazda has declared that by the middle of the decade they will have replaced their entire powertrain lineup and cut fuel consumption by 30 percent. On the powertrain side, engines will be upgraded across the board including a new direct injected…

Fisker Karma – Click above for high-res image gallery
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies has been working with Fisker Automotive ever since the latter company started its efforts to be build a luxury plug-in hybrid a couple of years ago. Quantum has…

Hyundai only launched retail sales of its first hybrid a couple of weeks ago, but the South Korean automaker has already received 1,000 orders in its home market. Hyundai's hybrid system has been installed in the Avante (which is sold elsewhere as…

Joe Jobe, the CEO of the National Biodiesel Board recently took advantage of Chrysler's new discount program for NBB members to buy a new Dodge Ram. Jobe was replacing an eight-year-old Ford F350 with the new clean diesel powered Dodge. The updated…

Volkswagen has bought a German biofuels manufacturer CHOREN Industries GmbH to help promote their development of their second generation synthetic fuel. CHOREN is developing biomass-to-liquid technology that can produce sulfur-free diesel from many…

2010 Ford Fusion hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
There are thousands of companies around the country with customer service fleets, often in urban areas. With fuel prices still hovering near $3 per gallon and the economy struggling,…

Click above for gallery of the 1979 BMW M1
One of the rarest of (relatively) modern BMWs is the M1. Back in the mid-1970s, the gang in Munich were tired of Porsche getting all the glory in sports car racing with its 911-based 934 and 935. BMW decided…

Right now in the U.S., hybrids are all the rage among drivers who want to be more green in what they drive, but it may not stay that way for much longer. New research by Ricardo and UBS is projecting that total sales of hybrid and diesel vehicles…

Switchgrass and sorghum have been promoted heavily in the last couple of years as potential feedstocks for producing cellulosic ethanol. The recently-launched Oklahoma Bioenergy Center at Oklahoma State University has just procured 1,100 acres of…