Category: Autoblog

When Ford redesigned U.S.-spec Focus, they dumped the hatchback and wagon models and gave the sedan and new coupe a style that almost no one thought was an improvement. Fortunately for European drivers, the refreshed Euro Focus came out much better.…

The SAE standard J1772 charging connector for plug-in vehicles passed another threshold on its way to finalization this week. Underwriters Laboratories has completed its certification testing on the connector developed by Yazaki. The UL testing has…

Renault and Nissan are working on a new zero carbon emission power-train that is expected to be applied to a vehicle in 2010. The two companies are cooperating on a lithium ion battery to power the vehicle. Nissan will be focusing on the Japanese…

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Nissan has finally announced the first round of pricing on the Leaf electric car. In Japan where Nissan is hoping to sell 6,000 copies in the 2010 fiscal year, the base price will be ¥3.76 million…

According to a new poll of Michigan residents, they don't think that holding back on raising fuel efficiency and emissions standards will help the domestic automakers. Instead most people think the industry that employs (at least for now) so many of…

Toyota has picked the finalists in its contest find a host for the Prius' tenth birthday party; now it's your turn to pick the winner. Interested people have until next Friday to head over to facebook.com/prius to check out the entries and cast votes…

For at least the last seven or eight years one of the features of the Volkswagen stand at the Detroit Auto Show, has been a plastic injection molding machine. The machine takes in lumps of plastic resin and turns them in to translucent plastic shells…

Greek scientists have come up with new possible mechanism for storing hydrogen for use in fuel cells. They have developed a way to produce rolled up sheets of carbon, referred to as carbon nanoscrolls. The team led by George Froudakis has been…

The Sierra Club has set up a mileage calculator on their website that purports to tell users how much their mileage would improve if fuel economy requirements were updated and carmakers put all the technology that's currently available on their cars.…

UPS and its competitors at FedEx and DHL have all been testing a variety of hybrid drive delivery vans for several years now. Recently, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory completed a twelve-month evaluation of six hybrid vans being used by UPS…