Category: Autoblog

As Detroit revs up for the annual Woodward Dream Cruise, Detroit Free Press columnist Mark Phelan has been contemplating the kinds of cars that future editions might feature. Given the almost certainty of at least some degree of increased fuel…

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It's another day, so that must mean we have another electric vehicle-related announcement from Renault. This time around, the Renault-Nissan alliance is taking the next step in its…

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels is a fan of electric vehicles and wants his constituents to feel the same way. In recent months, the Pacific Northwest city has signed a deal with Nissan to be one of the first locations to get its upcoming electric…

Ever since the debut of the Chevy Volt concept in January 2007, some people have been wondering about Toyota's attitude toward plug-in vehicles. This situation was not helped by some negative comments by Toyota executives in fall 2007 denigrating the…

Toyota will be joining Ford and Volkswagen in presenting a new small car concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. In their pre-show press release, they announced the world premier of a “radical new small car concept” although no further…

The Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council have done a new study on plug-in hybrids and as you might expect they have found them to be a good thing. The study looked at what happens to the environment when…

Long Beach and Los Angeles provide the primary points of entry for all the cheap Chinese products Wal-Mart (and just about every other retailer in America) shoppers can't seem to do without. They are the largest container ports in America and there…

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Seven years into its existence Tesla Motors has achieved a milestone few Silicon Valley startups ever manage: the company was profitable in July 2009. According to a press release from the company today,…

This week, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded $115 million in grants to truck and engine makers for projects to develop cleaner, more efficient products. Daimler Trucks North America got the largest single chunk – $40 million – through the 21st…

Ford just can't seem to get a break when it comes to their new diesel engined Super Duty F-Series pickup trucks. First they had a conflict with diesel engine supplier Navistar, that stopped engine shipments. Now Ford is having to recall 37.400 trucks…