Category: Autoblog

Newsweek has an article on coal to liquid fuel and how it could supply most of our energy needs. Certainly, North America has huge reserves of coal which are fairly easily accessible by simply blowing the tops off of mountains and into the…

A lot of Americans who were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Smart ForTwo on our shores have been disappointed by the mileage figures that reach only into the upper thirties. Over in Europe, Smart offers the ForTwo with automatic start-stop…

With Aston Martin now no longer wholly owned by Ford, they are free to look elsewhere for help with powertrain technology. There have been rumors for the past couple of months that future Astons might use Mercedes Benz powertrains in place of the…

Click above for high-res image gallery of the Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S
When one thinks of the Indianapolis 500, Maserati is not a name that pops immediately to mind. However, cars wearing the famous trident logo won the 500 twice in 1939 and…

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res renderings of the the Velozzi car
Team Velozzi is one of the teams that is planning to compete for the Automotive X-Prize. They are an R&D group that's focusing on developing alternative fuel vehicles.…

One of the big contributors to rising food prices over the past year has been the cost of getting food from the field to the grocer. Truck drivers across Europe and especially in the UK have been protesting increasing fuel costs for months. The U.S.…

General Motors has been doing research and development, in earnest, on hydrogen-fueled vehicles for well over a decade. Unlike Ford and BMW, who have both built hydrogen-fueled internal combustion vehicles, almost all of GM's work has been done on…

One of the major causes of wasted fuel and excess emissions in cold climates is engines that get started many minutes before driving off in order to warm up. Actually it's not that the engines actually need to warm up, they will operate just fine…

At the last two big auto shows in Frankfurt and Tokyo, Volkswagen showed off two- and four-door concept versions of a new mini-car they are working on. Both of these were powered by rear mounted internal combustion engines. We knew a third variant…

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, Ford's Nancy Gioia and CEO Great Plains Energy Michael Chesser with E85 Escape Hybrid in Kansas City
Four of the twenty E85 Flex-Fuel Escape hybrids that Ford is building to for real world evaluations of flex-fuel hybrid…