Category: Autoblog

With skyrocketing gas prices causing buyers to bid up the prices on old eco-boxes to seemingly ridiculous prices, it should come as no surprise that others are being pulled out of barns and garages. The latest is this Vangaurd Citicar that was built…

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People like to categorize the world. It helps our brains figure stuff out, because we can only manage so much information. Lumping things into bins helps get information down to a…

If you happen to work for either Google or Bank of America, and you were thinking of buying a hybrid vehicle, you're in luck. Both companies are offering cash back to their employees if they buy a hybrid car. As we noted, on February 2nd, Bank of…

Just days after General Motors put out the call to settle on a plug standard for electric vehicles, it appears that an agreement has been reached – in Europe at least. The plug design will be unveiled at a German technology fair on Monday by energy…

When president-elect Barack Obama nominated Dr. Steven Chu to be the next Secretary of Energy last week, he made his stance on energy and the environment abundantly clear. Chu has long been outspoken as a believer in human-caused global warming and…

Over at the official Tesla Blog today, CEO Martin Eberhard gives his impression's of last night's State of the Union address including a reference to Bush's mention of “Nucular” energy. Eberhard makes a point about not commenting on anything other…

A couple of weeks ago, GM VP for Research and Development . The focus of his talk was to encourage energy companies to get moving with deploying hydrogen filling stations to support a fleet fuel cell vehicles. GM, Toyota and Honda were all at the NHA…

Mercedes-Benz is wasting no time in implementing the Road to the Future which it presented at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, and is now offering two new E-Class models to pave the way for a new generation of particularly economical and…

Nobody could ever accuse Hyundai of not thinking big. The Korean carmaker has grown into the fourth largest volume import brand in the U.S. market and is now on the verge of launching into the luxury and high-performance segments. So far, aside from…

A new online sales site specializing in hybrid and electric is being launched by Rocket City Automotive Group. People will be able to buy and sell electrically driven vehicles through eEVoutlet.com. Similar to eBay, users will have to pay a listing…