2004 SVT Lightning Concept
It's been several years since Ford last offered a Lightning version of its F-150 pickup truck but it looks like it will soon strike again. In spite of plummeting sales of big trucks, a high-performance variant of the new…

Michael Morris, Chairman and CEO of American Electric Power, believes that the U.S. electrical grid is capable of supporting up to 60 million plug-in hybrid vehicles right now. In a speech at the Detroit Economic Club, the chief of the biggest…

While the hydrogen fuel cell news has been relatively quiet of late, that doesn't mean that fuel cell work has stopped. Kia (along with corporate partners Hyundai), for example, has been actively developing the technology. On the Kia Buzz blog today,…

The unfortunate reality for Chrysler in North America is that aside from the new Ram, the Wrangler and the minivans, few of its products are considered desirable alternatives in their segments. At least part of that is due to what many consider -…

A few years back after getting the hybrid ball rolling with the original Insight and then Civic, Honda added a hybrid version of the Accord. Like the Insight, it was not a strong seller and, after a few years, it was discontinued and Honda decided to…

An eagle-eyed civilian somewhere in the Silicon Valley area happened to notice a certain electric blue roadster prowling the roads the other day. Fortunately the person had a video camera handy and captured some footage of the latest Tesla Roadster…

2010 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion – click above to enlarge
Volkswagen has just launched the new BlueMotion Golf in the European market and it is the most efficient Golf ever. The new model is rated at 61.9 mpg (U.S.) on the EU combined driving cycle…

For a long time now green has been the unofficial color of environmentalists. Anything environmentally friendly has been considered green. But that may be about to change. Advertising agency JWT (formerly known as J Walter Thompson) is predicting a…

The venerable Times of London seems to be publishing a blog now and TreeHugger points to a post with some pointers to make it easier to get around on a bicycle in the winter months. If you live and work in an urban environment and don't have an…

Click on the photo to watch the BBC video of the Nano engineers
When you set out to produce a car at one-third the cost of anything else on the market, a lot things invariably need to be left behind. Creating a car like the Tata Nano requires taking…