Recently the members of ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association have had diverging positions on CO2 limits being proposed by the European Union. While most are developing new vehicles to meet the proposed regulations, some like…
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MIT students create biomass-fueled $2 trickle charger
A group of students from MIT have won the MIT and Dow Materials Engineering contest with their electrical charging device. The BioVolt team built their device from about $2 worth of materials and it can use all kinds of biomass such as leaves and…
Washington state may introduce MPG-based car taxes
Legislators in Washington state want to put the hurt on people who buy vehicles that consume more fuel by charging a new annual tax that's weighted in inverse proportion to the vehicle's EPA fuel economy ratings. The more fuel a vehicle uses, the…
New Tesla CEO Ze'ev Drori finally speaks
The new CEO and President of Tesla Motors Ze'ev Drori has been pretty quiet since he came on board recently, at least publicly. He did participate with Elon Musk in the recent conference call with customers and he has undoubtedly made his presence…
Volkswagen presents the first battery-powered Golf Blue-e-motion
On May 1 in Berlin, Germany transport minister Dr. Peter Ramsauer went for a drive in the first Volkswagen Golf blue-e-motion with VW board member Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg. The new battery-powered Golf is the first of a fleet of 500 that will be…
First road test of the new Ford Fiesta
Here in North America we still have to wait about another 15 months to get our paws on Ford's new Fiesta, but it goes on sale in the UK in October. Britain's Channel 4 recently ran its first road test of the new mini car and was quite pleased with…
SEMA comes out against cash for clunkers
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced plans to introduce legislation on the first day of the new Congressional session that would provide funds that would be used to pay people for taking old cars off the road. The “cash for clunkers”…
Honda has new global ad featuring the FCX concept
Click on the image for a high-res gallery of the FCX
Over on the Honda global website they have a new ad that features the FCX concept fuel cell powered car. With the tagline Honda thinks, therefore FCX Concept is, the ad has video of the FCX…
Chinese carmakers debate hybrids vs fuel cells
As the Shanghai Motor Show opened up last week, local Chinese manufacturers showed off a wide variety of alternative powered vehicles including hybrids, battery powered cars and and fuel cell vehicles. As the vehicle population has exploded in the…
General Motors fifth-generation fuel cell stack
A plastic mock-up of the GM Gen5 fuel cell stack
General Motors built the first fuel cell-powered vehicle back in the 1960s when they created ElectroVan, a concept that was only tested briefly before being shelved. Over the past decade however, the…