Category: Autoblog

2008 saw the biggest drop ever in CO2 emissions from new vehicles sold in the UK, with a year over year reduction of 4.2 percent. Wtih a fleetwide average of just 158 g/km, cars amount to just 11.5 percent of total UK carbon dioxide emissions. The…

MINI E – click above for high-res image gallery
Over the last several years, many of the fans of battery-powered vehicles here on ABG have asked quite vociferously why it's taking companies like General Motors so long to bring cars like the Volt to…

Over the past decade, fuel cell cars have evolved from barely functional auto show concepts into fully functional, viable vehicles that can go upwards of 300 miles on a fill up. In most cases you can just hop and drive. There's just two little…

Following the announcement from General Motors the other day of a much closer working relationship with A123 Systems for development of the lithium ion battery cells for the Chevy Volt, AutoblogGreen sat down to talk with David Vieau and Ric Fulop of…

An alert reader in Manhattan recently noticed an unusual new vehicle decked in the yellow paint scheme of a New York cab. This is the first known example of a Volkswagen Jetta TDI doing livery service in the Big Apple. Much has been made of the…

2010 Volkswagen Golf – click above for high-res image gallery
The new MK VI Golf has only just gone on sale here in North America but VW engineers are already hard at work on the next iteration. When the seventh generation of VW's compact rolls out…

The arrival of the Two-Mode GM SUV's if finally upon us as the Baltimore Transmission plant officially launched full production of the new hybrid transmissions today. The plant in White Marsh Maryland employs approximately 415 hourly and salaried…

Honda next-generation solar hydrogen station – Click above for high-res image gallery
Earlier this year, Honda unveiled its newest prototype home hydrogen station for fuel cell vehicles. Susan Carpenter of The Los Angeles Times recently drove over to…

Volkswagen Group's Spanish branch Seat is adding their parent's 125 hp 1.4L TSI engine to some of their models. The León and Altea models will get the direct injected 1.4L four cylinder that has been used in various Volkswagen and Audi models. The…

PSA's two car brands – Peugeot and Citroën – have achieved a fleet average of 140 g/km of carbon dioxide emissions based on all the cars they sold in France in 2006. That puts PSA at the top of the heap among all the companies that sell cars in…