Category: Autoblog

2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid – Click above for high-res gallery
Natural Heath magazine has decided to honor Ford Motor Company with its Green Choice award. The magazine cited the automaker for its efforts to produce more environmentally friendly…

In the runup to last year's summer Olympics, a lot of attention was paid to the horrible air quality in Chinese cities like Beijing. Now Toyota has decided to contribute to the effort to clean things up. The automaker made a number of grants under…

As we've discussed here before, one of the issues with cutting emissions – whether they are greenhouse or noxious gases – is the number of older vehicles still on the road. The number of new cleaner vehicles added every year is dwarfed by the number…

For their first production hybrid vehicle, the Altima, Nissan licensed Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive. At the same time, Nissan announced that they would be developing their own in-house system for introduction in 2010. Several months back rumors…

Over on the new Chrysler Blog, Product Development boss Frank Klegon has put up a post about diesels at Chrysler. Chrysler has said on several occasions that they expect diesels to eventually make up fifteen percent of the US market over the next…

Click above for a high-res gallery of the NLV Quant by Koenigsegg
The cars created by Christian von Koenigsegg are not renowned for being environmentally friendly. The car unveiled by Koenigsegg today at the Geneva Motor Show is in many ways…

SNCF, the French rail company that operates the famous TGV trains, now has a new eco-comparator on their site. When you fill in your departure and arrival cities and dates, it does the usual search for available trains similar to what you get on…

Click the Highlander for a high-res gallery
Toyota unveiled the second generation of their Highlander crossover last February at the Chicago Auto Show and it followed the all too familiar pattern of bigger, wider, heavier. Fortunately it didn't grow…

Hard as it may be to believe, the word “hummer” didn't always bring up visions of obnoxious, polarizing SUVs. In fact, there was a time not so very long ago that uttering that word evoked something entirely different, namely cars powered by Wankel…

During a panel discussion at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit today, a group of industry executives projected that diesel engines with grab 20 percent market share in the US by the end of the next decade. BorgWarner CEO…