Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger also has gas stations at many of their stores. Kroger is now teaming up with VeraSun Energy and Enterprise Rent-a-car to install E85 pumps at twenty of their stations in Ohio and Kentucky. Enterprise has been labeling…
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Peugeot coming back to US market at the low end?
On the way into the office in Livonia, MI this morning I spotted a Peugeot 107 with a manufacturer plate. I managed to snap a few photos before the driver went off in a different direction. The 107 is the new B-Class model that Peugeot is selling in…
2012 Chevrolet Malibu design completely revealed in patent filings?
2010 Chevrolet Malibu patent drawings – Click above for high-res image gallery
Over the past nine months, we've seen the next-generation Chevrolet Malibu twice at General Motors media events that were closed to the public. On neither occasion were we…
ATS a good-looking Cadillac rendering, isn't it? Not so accurate, though…
A few weeks back, we were among the group invited out to General Motors' design studios to have a look at the near future of the company's product portfolio. Among the many vehicles that we told you about after our visit were a pair of new Cadillacs…
Ford preparing to launch fumes-to-fuel at Flex assembly plant
With full production of Ford's new Flex crossover kicking off this week, the Dearborn automaker is cleaning up the plant's emissions and generating electricity at the same time. The Flex is built at the Oakville Assembly Plant west of Toronto that…
Tesla employees going on 2,700-mile road trip from LA to Detroit
Tesla Roadster #750 – click above for high res image gallery
Tesla has now delivered some 900 examples of its electric Roadster, and some employees will take unit #750 on a road trip. Tesla will be back at the Detroit Auto Show next month and this…
Rendered Speculation: Ford Taurus SHO wagon is the apple of our eye
Many of us who sit around the Autoblog campfire every day are fans of station wagons. We love cars and love the idea of having some extra utility without giving up the generally superior driving dynamics of cars versus SUVs or crossovers. We also…
On the verge of liquidation, Delphi intros new direct piezo diesel injector
One of the keys to helping clean up diesel emissions and improving performance in recent years has been the piezo electric fuel injectors developed by companies like Bosch, Continental and Delphi. Previous injector designs used electro-magnetic…
Spy Shots: 2009 Ford Fiesta, now without tarps!
The next generation Ford Fiesta mini-car has been caught on camera again, this time without tarps. The new B-Car inherits the “kinetic design” look of the latest Mondeo mated to the same platform that underpins the new Mazda2. Compared to the…
Driving impressions of the fuel cell Chevy Equinox
Here in the Ann Arbor office of ABG we don't have access to a public hydrogen filling station yet. The only ones around here at the EPA national testing lab, the NextEnergy Center in Detroit and at various automakers facilities. That means that we're…