Hyundai may soon begin offering oil-burners in the US market instead of hybrids. According to Hyundai COO Steve Wilhite, getting diesels into US Hyundai models are his highest personal priority. Wilhite would like to see diesels available in all of…

General Motors is building a fleet of fuel cell powered Equinoxes and they've decided to source the hydrogen storage systems from Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies. The Equinox will use a 10,000 psi tank, which is double that of most other fuel cell…

NASCAR Hall of Fame – Click above for high-res image gallery
All things considered, it seems odd that it took until 2010 for NASCAR to open up a hall of fame. Now that NASCAR's best days may well be behind it, one might expect that fans would be…

The law of unintended consequences strikes again. This time unscrupulous bean counters in the paper industry are using a loophole in a 2005 alternative fuel tax credit law to turn red ink into black. The paper industry is already the third largest…

click above for a high res gallery of the production Mitsubishi iMiEV
In conjunction with the launch of series production of its iMiEV yesterday, Mitsubishi has released a whole batch of new images. There isn't much new information that we haven't…

UPDATE: New live shots added to the gallery!
Click on the photo to see a live gallery of the US debut of the new C-Class
Mercedes-Benz took the wraps off of the 2008 C-Class for the first time in the United States at the New York Auto Show yesterday.…

Click the 123d for a high res gallery
Recently, BMW added a fourth, even more efficient diesel variant to the 1-series lineup in Europe. The new 116d joins the 118d, 120d, and 123d. The 116d uses the same 2.0L four cylinder engine as its more…

UPDATE: Additional shots added to the high-res
Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the Chevy Groove Concept
Of the Chevrolet triplets unveiled at the Javits Center this morning, the Groove is the only one powered by a diesel engine, at least…

In 2002 California passed legislation to require carmakers to reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases by thirty percent by 2016 and now three US Senators want to expand those rules to the rest of the country. California Senator Diane Feinstein,…

Powertrain engineering specialists FEV are showing off a number of new technologies at the SAE World Congress this week including this new NOx reduction system for diesel engines. The basic principle of the Solid SCR is the same as the urea injection…