2011 Chevrolet Cruze – click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors is desperate to avoid the recall stigma that plagued the first year of North American production of the original Ford Focus a decade ago. That car was recalled five times in…

2010 Mercedes Benz ML450 hybrid – click above for high-res image gallery
With the end of the two-mode hybrid co-development partnership, Daimler has decided that it will not completely withdraw its hybrid engineering back to Germany. Instead, the…

Google has always been very conscious of energy efficiency, as much for economic reasons as environmental. After all when you're operating dozens (hundreds?) of data centers filled thousands (millions?) of servers storing every conceivable bit of…

Fedex Ground is teaming up with hydraulic component manufacturer Parker Hannifin to develop and field test a hydraulic hybrid delivery van. The van will use a series hybrid layout similar to one developed by FEV that is being tested by UPS. The…

The city of London hopes to have a fleet of zero emission fuel cell-powered taxicabs in service in time for the 2012 summer Olympic games. The first prototype, built b y Lotus Engineering with a consortium of other companies, was unveiled yesterday…

Delphi Automotive Systems has been a financial basket case since long before it was spun off by General Motors. The company has been under chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for over a year now, and has been shedding money losing business units (which…

Engineering consultancy Ricardo has won an award for High Performance Engineering. The prize came from an organization with a name that could only be British, The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London. The award was in…

We've all experienced the law of unintended consequences, and it has just struck again in Canada. Years ago a provision was put in US tax law that allowed businesses to deduct $25,000 for the purchase of trucks used for commercial reasons.…

In order for any complex and expensive technology to achieve widespread success in the marketplace, cooperation can be just as if not more important than competition. This is as true today for electric vehicles as it was in the early days of the…

Stuttgart – Mercedes-Benz is set to launch a completely new diesel engine generation starting in the autumn of 2008. For its world premiere, the Stuttgart-based car manufacturer will unveil a C-Class model with this new four-cylinder engine. In the C…