According to a new poll of Michigan residents, they don't think that holding back on raising fuel efficiency and emissions standards will help the domestic automakers. Instead most people think the industry that employs (at least for now) so many of…

Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
Nissan has finally announced the first round of pricing on the Leaf electric car. In Japan where Nissan is hoping to sell 6,000 copies in the 2010 fiscal year, the base price will be ¥3.76 million…

Renault and Nissan are working on a new zero carbon emission power-train that is expected to be applied to a vehicle in 2010. The two companies are cooperating on a lithium ion battery to power the vehicle. Nissan will be focusing on the Japanese…

The SAE standard J1772 charging connector for plug-in vehicles passed another threshold on its way to finalization this week. Underwriters Laboratories has completed its certification testing on the connector developed by Yazaki. The UL testing has…

One of the most popular shows on the Discovery Channel is Mythbusters and recently Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and the rest of the team have been taking a look at gas vs electric vehicles for an upcoming episode. Right now Hyneman has an article on…

A little over a year ago Volkswagen introduced their TSI engine range in 138 hp and 168 hp flavors. Those two engines both had displacements of 1.4L with the output of something considerably larger. They achieved this by combining gasoline direct…

As much as plug-in advocates would like to believe otherwise, mass adoption of battery electric vehicles ( EVs) will not be the silver bullet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. EVs are only one piece of the puzzle. In fact, cars of all kinds only…

Volkswagen has published their power-train roadmap for the coming decade with the goal of moving to a petroleum-free future. Clearly in the near term, fossil fuels are still the primary fuel so they need to be used as sparingly as possible. To that…

Compact Power Inc is on something of a roll lately. They and parent LG Chem of South Korea have reportedly won contracts supply lithium ion batteries to Hyundai/Kia for upcoming hybrid models and are rumored to be the front runner to the supply…

Click above to view a video of Chrysler's uConnect in action.
At Chrysler's annual “What's New” gathering at its Chelsea Proving Ground, we were able to get a demonstration of the new uConnect Web system, which transforms any vehicle into a rolling…