Category: Autoblog

Over the past couple of years many livery companies around have bought a variety of hybrid vehicles with which to shuttle their clients around. However, New York-based Valera Global has decided to take a pass and instead go the carbon offset route.…

Click the F-150 for a high res gallery
Ford unleashed the latest generation of their top-selling F-150 pickup truck today at the Detroit Auto Show and the truck got a thorough revamp as we head toward the second decade of this century. The new…

For the first time in more than three decades the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted an Early Site Permit for a new US nuclear power plant. The ESP is the first stage toward a new plant and allows Exelon Generation Company to start…

Ford has apparently finally heard the call and green-lighted development of a new global rear wheel drive platform and a family of vehicles to be built on it. However, unlike General Motors, Ford will not rely on its Australian division to do the…

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res photos of the HySeries Drive Edge
At the Washington D.C. Auto Show, Ford unveiled a Ford Edge equipped with the HySeries Drive power-train first shown in the Airstream concept a couple of weeks ago in…

It never fails, whenever fuel prices go up someone comes up with some new miracle that will reduce or eliminate your gas consumption. Back in the 1970s, it was 200mpg carburetors, magnets you put on the fuel lines and all manner of other things that…

The last generation was always one of our favorite high-performance SUVs and its 6.1-liter Hemi V8 lunacy never failed to delight. Thankfully, with the brand-new Grand Cherokee now entering showrooms, a new SRT8 is apparently on the way as well.
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Hydrogen has the potential to be an awesome way to store energy for use in a variety of devices, including cars. There is of course the issue of separating atomic hydrogen from the other elements that it is typically bound to. Martin Demuth and his…

2010 Lotus Evora – click above for high res image gallery
Lotus has managed to snag two car of the year honors from EVO magazine for two different machines. The new Evora came out on the top of the heap among the new road going cars, while the Evora…

Back in January when Audi showed us Q7 TDi at the Detroit Auto Show, they said it would go on sale in mid-2008 and only a few weeks ago they gave indications that the hybrid version would also be available in the third quarter of 2008. Now, however,…