Category: Autoblog

At the Los Angeles Auto Show in November a group called Jumpstart Ford turned up to protest against Ford to encourage them to build more fuel efficient vehicles. They also tried to get GM chairman Rick Wagoner to sign a pledge to be the most…

Click on the photo for a high res gallery of the Trax
We already got a preview of the Trax mini-cross-over concept last week from GM and now we get some more details. Chevrolet calls this one an urban cross-over that looks kind of a blend of Scion…

The Telegraph is a major British newspaper and it's just published a list of what it deems the 100 most beautiful cars of all time. No matter what country you visit, regional automotive journalists seem to have some degree of bias toward the local…

A vehicle in motion has a lot of energy passing through it various ways. The limited capacity of electro-chemical batteries means engineers have to find any way they can to reduce wasted energy and recapture as much as possible. The primary means of…

Canadian cellulosic ethanol developer Iogen Corporation and its joint venture partner Royal Dutch Shell have committed further funding to keep the venture going for two more years. Iogen Energy is currently running a demonstration plant near Ottawa…

Cenex is a public-private consortium that aims to help British companies move toward greener technologies. They run a knowledge transfer network that helps companies to share low carbon and fuel cell technology and also promotes activities that…

DaimlerChrysler and BMW have announced plans to expand their hybrid drive-train co-development beyond the existing work the two companies are doing with General Motors. The German carmakers are working with GM on the two-mode parallel hybrid system…

The Los Angeles Times' Dan Neil recently wrote a review of the new 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid and, well, he pretty much likes it. In many respects it's very much like a new Toyota Camry Hybrid, which is to be expected since Nissan is licensing the…

Click above to view high-res gallery of the Saturn VUE 2 Mode Hybrid
We got a comment from a reader the other day on a post we published back in December indicating that the Saturn Vue 2-mode hybrid had been canceled. Our reader had placed an order…

Automotive supplier Bosch is now set to follow arch-rival Continental Automotive systems into the field producing turbochargers. Robert Bosch GmbH has received German regulatory approval to team up with MAHLE GmbH in a 50-50 joint venture called…