The 2008 EPA fuel economy numbers are in and the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid again top the charts overall. Under the new 2008 test procedures, the Prius scores a 48/45 city/highway in the mid-size class and the Civic came in at 40/45 in the…

Tesla Motors may well build the most desirable electric car of all time, but that doesn't make the company immune the same economic realities as every other automaker. Last week, Tesla CEO delivered a keynote address at the Society of Automotive…

AutoStudi is a Turin, Italy based engineering and design studio that does work for most of the car-makers that are based in the Piedmont region of northern Italy that includes towns such as Maranello and Modena. At the the SAE World Congress they are…

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It's beginning to look like the third hybrid model in the Audi lineup will be the next-generation A6, expected to debut in 2011. Audi has already confirmed that it will launch a Q5 hybrid in…

It turns out that when the time came for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team to develop a hybrid drive KERS for this year's car, it did not do the job in-house. Instead, it went to a specialist with perhaps more experience than anyone in developing…

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Dodge's entry in this year's concept car sweepstakes is the ZEO, a four-seat, battery-powered sports car. The low slung Zero Emissions Operation coupe has 64kWh worth of lithium ion batteries packed between…

Maserati hasn't expressed much interest in improving the fuel economy of its road cars, although that will undoubtedly come in the next few years. In the meantime, those with a hankering for a Maserati-badged vehicle but without the budget for one…

In the latest post on the Tesla blog, PR director David Vespremi gives a very detailed yet easy to understand treatise on mass and vehicle dynamics. More specifically he discusses the distinctions between rotating, unsprung and sprung masses and how…

A Mercedes-Benz official told AutoblogGreen that the company still intends to launch the ML450 Two-Mode Hybrid later in 2009 in spite of a lawsuit filed against battery supplier Cobasys earlier this week. Mitsubishi announced that they will supply…

With Toyota throwing cold water on the near-term viability of lithium ion battery technology for the Prius, it looks like another brand will be the first to use the new batteries. Mercedes-Benz announced back in September at the Frankfurt Motors Show…