Due to some arcane tax rules in Great Britain, it's financially beneficial for many companies to provide cars to employees. As a result, a disproportionate number of sales in the UK are to company fleets. Thus, publications like Fleet News get a lot…
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Report: Mercedes-Benz S350 Bluetec joining lineup for 2011
2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
Mercedes-Benz has confirmed to Autoblog that the S400 hybrid won't remain the only efficiency-minded member of the S-Class family for long. The S350 Bluetec will be coming to the…
Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?
Toyota Prius PHEV – click above for high-res image gallery
Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to…
Review: 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 – Click above for high-res image gallery
In many ways, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is one of the best vehicles in Chrysler's lineup. Along with the Wrangler, it packs real off-road capabilities into an angular, no-nonsense…
Using only the sun to split water and make hydrogen
As cool as the promise of quick refueling and emitting only water is, fuel cells still have that sticky issue of needing hydrogen before they can really catch on. In spite of hydrogen being the most common element in the universe it almost never…
REPORT: Mercedes to add four cylinder diesel to S-class
If Autocar is correct, Mercedes-Benz will impose some serious downsizing in the engine compartment of the S-class next year. Six cylinder engines are nothing new in European-spec versions of the big Merc. However, Daimler is now set to install its…
Mercedes introducing Euro-5 compliant E300 Bluetec diesel
Mercedes Benz has announced the introduction of the E300 Bluetec sedan to the European market for the first time. The Bluetec version of the E-class has been available in the US market since fall of 2006 but the addition to the European lineup means…
Spotted in Detroit: Pre-production 2011 Chevrolet Volt
We've still got about six and a half months until the official Job One production date for the Chevrolet Volt, but GM's plug-in savior is popping up on the streets around Detroit. Most of the Volts spotted in public are from the fleet of 80 IVER…
Geneva Preview: Hyundai reveals diesel hybrid i-Flow
Hyundai's home office in Korea has dropped the first frontal image of the new concept that will be shown next week in Geneva along with some technical details. The i-Flow is a D-segment sedan meant to go up against cars like the Ford Mondeo in…
No diesels from Porsche, Cayenne will go hybrid instead
There have been various rumors floating around about alternative power-trains that Porsche was looking at installing in the Cayenne SUV and potentially other models. Now Porsche has put a stop to at least one rumor. They have decided that they…