The latest city to jump on the carsharing band wagon is Seattle. The city has signed up with ZipCar to provide on-demand short term car rentals in the hopes that more of the city's 10,500 employees (Seattle has 10,500 employees?) will access the cars…

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At a breakfast meeting with MINI USA VP Jim McDowell this morning he was asked to elaborate on recently announced plans for a battery powered MINI. McDowell acknowledged that the US branch was caught somewhat by…

The latest company to start trials of the Modec battery-powered delivery van is UKMail. UKMail is a division of Business Post Group and they are operating the Modec van in west London within the congestion zone. The electric van has a number of…

Renault Fluence ZE Concept – click above for high-res image gallery
When attendees get to the big climate change conference in Copenhagen next week, they will have an opportunity to sample some of Renault's upcoming fleet of electric vehicles. A…

Car-sharing service Zipcar has revamped their reservation system on their website. The service allows members to buy credits for use of cars that are provided by Zipcar on an as needed basis. After surveying 30,000 members, they designed the new…

The new 2011 BMW 530d has easily passed its first crash test evaluation while using active emergency brake intervention. Like a number of other cars to come to market recently, the 5 Series is available with a radar-based active cruise control system…

2010 BMW X6 ActiveHybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
For a mere $89,725 you can have your pick of questionable V8 powered BMW X6s. For that price tag you can get the monster 555 hp X6 M or the new the new ActiveHybrid X6. Unlike…

The doors stay intact and functional
When Mazda introduced their new B-class car, the Mazda2, earlier this year one of the most interesting technical aspects of the car was that the company bucked the seemingly irreversible trend of making new models…

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V
I feel so affirmed right now after reading Jeremy Clarkson's latest car review in the Times of London. After the rightfully-deserved savaging Clarkson gave the Chrysler Sebring last week…

Click the photo for a high-res gallery of the Durango and Aspen hybrid prototypes
Yesterday morning, AutoblogGreen had the privilege of being the very first media outlet to drive Chrysler's upcoming hybrid SUVs. We already knew that DaimlerChrysler…