Category: Autoblog

At the Geneva Motor Show this week Mercedes-Benz has been showing a slew of vehicles with assorted fuel saving technologies. The collection has included diesels, hybrids, aerodynamic improvements, low rolling resistance tires and more. While GM Vice…

Over at ABG we spent a week with the Honda Civic hybrid, 4 doors, seating for 5 and 37 mpg. Bosch is looking to expand beyond their traditional automotive components into electric motors and batteries and a leading Formula 1 engineer believes that…

Several years ago, the Indian supreme court mandated that all public vehicles in Delhi, should be converted to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as means to fight the rising pollution levels. In turn all of the government operated buses, motorized…

The Corvette is no stranger to being used for pace car duty, having led racers around tracks like Indy countless times over the years. Come February, NASCAR will be staging its flagship Daytona 500 race for the fiftieth time, and the two-seater from…

Fans of hybrid vehicles have been clamoring for carmakers to add plug-in capability to those models so that they can grab some juice off the grid and leave more in the tank. The problem is that making a useful PHEV is actually not as simple as just…

During the Ford 2010 model preview in Dearborn this week, one of the efficiency improvements promised for the near term by Powertrain VP Barb Samardzich was increased hybrid applications. When we asked Fusion hybrid applications manager Gil…

HERNDON, Va.– Volkswagen's Hydrogen Fuel Cell concept vehicle, the HyMotion Tiguan, will travel from Portland, Maine to Los Angeles, Calif. over the next 13 days as part of the National Hydrogen Road Tour, sponsored by the U.S. Department of…

For many years Canada's emissions and fuel economy standards, lagged behind those in the United States. Partly because of the Canada-US auto pact that essentially allowed the duty free movement of cars and parts across the border as long as the value…

As gasoline prices across the US continue their inexorable climb back up to the $3 a gallon level and beyond, some of the millions of people who have bought flex-fuel vehicles over the past decade are finally starting to use the flexibility at their…

One of the advantages of being an automaker that produces nothing but plug-in vehicles is earning zero-emissions credits. It's long been thought that those credits could at some point become a valuable commodity. Back in 2007, when Phoenix Motorcars…