Category: Autoblog

At this point, it's no secret that the Chevy Volt and other plug-in vehicles are not going to come cheap. The least-pricey full-speed electric vehicle may very well be the Nissan Leaf, which after incentives might drop into the $27-28,000 range…

Given that the traditional four-stroke Otto-cycle engine piston engine only has a thermal efficiency of 25-30 percent, there is clearly still plenty of room for improvement. While most of the green automobile attention in recent years has been…

An inventor named Ulrich Kahlert has created what is essentially a hands free version of the Segway. It's not clear from the site if it's actually a modified Segway or something completely new, but it seems to function similarly except that the rider…

2011 Alpina B7 – Click above for high-res image gallery
BMW has stated several times that it has no plans to do an official M version of the current F01 7 Series, but that doesn't mean it won't offer a hotter version of its flagship sedan courtesy of…

There's a Biodiesel Expo coming up in Nottingham, England in October and Dutch company AlgaeLink will take the wraps off their latest bioreactors. The equipment is designed to grow algae for biodiesel production. Algae has much higher oil…

We first heard about the latest autonomous driving project from Stanford University and the Volkswagen Group a couple of weeks ago. Audi has released some more information on the car, a TT-S coupe that, like its predecessors, Stanley and Junior, has…

When it comes to cars, they do things a bit differently in Canada. While our neighbor to the north has long been considered more progressive than the U.S., it was the United States that introduced pollution controls, and until recently, Canada never…

While most other automakers have been backing away from plans to introduce new diesel engines to the U.S. market in recent months, the big German makers – VW-Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz – seem fully committed to oil burners. That's probably because…

2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
A couple of months ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) first published its hybrid scorecard. That hybrid value reference source has now been updated with two newly…

About a month ago we heard that Martin Eberhard had decided to drop his defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors. Now comes word that Eberhard and the defendants have actually reached a settlement. Given the ruling…