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To mark the availability General Motors' latest heavy-duty GMT900 full-size trucks, the automaker invited us out to its Milford Proving Ground to drive its big trucks along…

A pair of MIT graduate architecture students are proposing a novel, almost carbon-free way to generate electricity. In crowded buildings and malls when thousands of people are walking around, every step they take puts mechanical energy into the…

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With GM's full-size SUVs now in production, car-buyers will shortly have their first opportunity to sample the Two-Mode hybrid system. Over the next couple of years, this system will be appearing in vehicles…

The current Northstar supercharged DOHC V-8
The General Motors Tonawanda Engine Plant near Niagara Falls, NY will be getting more money from the mothership in order to tool up for another new engine. Tonawanda currently builds 4, 5, 6 and 8-cylinder…

When people like GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz talk about how new fuel economy regulations are going to add $5-6,000 to the price of new cars and trucks, it's worth examining how they come to those numbers. Obviously there are some cars today that can…

Despite the fact it adorns one of the most derided cars on the U.S. market today, the Sebring badge will apparently survive for at least another couple of years. Recent reports had indicated that Chrysler wanted to make a clean break with its…

In the wake of Volkswagen displaying their Chameleon battery and solar powered 1964 bus, a Montreal, PQ-based design firm has announced that they have won a special jury prize at the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf in Germany for their solar-diesel hybrid…

The Tesla WhiteStar sedan is still at least a couple of years away from production (if not more). However a reader sent in a link to a site that purports to offer a Luxury Electric sedan. The car in question is an Acura TL shorn of its…

We've discussed the issue of lack of noise from electric vehicles in the past and now the US National Federation of the Blind has returned the debate. It's tough enough for sighted pedestrians to take note of the humming of the motor, but those who…

With all the speculation about the future of Chrysler and who might buy them, Ann Arbor News business columnist Rick Haglund has floated an interesting idea that I hadn't seen publicly uttered previously. How about Al Gore leading a takeover of the…