Category: Autoblog

Toyota is expanding their fuel cell vehicle development tests out of their own facilities into the real world. They have built some fuel cell-powered vehicles based on the previous generation Highlander and they are loaning one out to a Nagoya…

Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell – click above for high-res gallery
This week, General Motors' Project Driveway Fuel Cell test program will top the 1 million total mile mark after only two years on the road. GM built over 100 of the hydrogen fueled…

Click the photo for a high-res gallery of the new Mini Cooper D
Would you pay almost 60 grand for a Mini Cooper? What if it was propelled by by batteries alone? Hybrid Technologies is working on a battery powered Mini Cooper that they expect to have…

Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, sees electric vehicles as a key step along the route to his long-time dream of making his company a full automaker. To that end, the company has built several electric drive concepts and is now…

Audi E-tron Detroit Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
While Quattro began as a single all-wheel-drive coupe for Audi thirty years ago, it has since become the common appellation for all the brand's models that drive both axles.…

General Motors made its case to a Detroit City Council committee on Wednesday in a bid to get some property tax brakes for its Hamtramck assembly plant. The Poletown plant is where General Motor is planning to build the Chevrolet Volt beginning in…

The last couple of years have been tough ones for General Motors. They've bought out tens of thousands of employees and had to deal with the collapse of Delphi Automotive Systems. At the same time they've been developing dozens of new vehicles,…

Aston Martin Cygnet – Click above for high-res image gallery
Earlier this year, we saw photos of Aston Martin designers working on a clay-covered Toyota iQ in the studio and applying typical Aston styling cues to it. Creating a leather clad urban…

R8 in the Chrysler visitor lot as Ray drives the hybrid
Our friend, the illustrious Ray Wert, has been in the environs of his suburban Detroit home, and today his German stalker followed him all the way to the Chrysler Proving Ground. As Ray was…

Click the Fusion for high-res images from Bonneville
Matt Zuehlk and his team comprised of engineers and technicians from Ford, Roush and Ballard Power Systems finally hit the Bonneville Salt Flats this past weekend after months of preparation and…