In this second part of our chat with Honda's Stephen Ellis we continue our discussion of the Honda Home Energy Station and get into the costs and practicality of hydrogen as a fuel. Read part one here.
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PSA pushes back diesel hybrid and moves it upmarket
While it has looked like Peugeot would be the first company to market a mainstream passenger vehicle with a diesel hybrid powertrain, it now looks like it won't come as quickly as previously thought. PSA (parent company of Peugeot and Citroen) has…
GM Launches two new turbocharged engines
At a Powertrain technology event in Europe, General Motors has announced a pair of new small displacement turbocharged engines. The 1.4L turbo is gasoline fueled and will be used globally in cars like the Opel/ Saturn Astra starting in 2010.…
Officially, official: 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, this one has lithium [W/VIDEO]
It's been a busy day for the PR troops at BMW as embargoes broke in Europe on two of its announcements for the Frankfurt Motor Show. We saw the ActiveHybrid X6 earlier today, and that was followed by the ActiveHybrid 7. The big sedan uses a different…
Paris Preview: BMW releases more details on 7-series active hybrid
click for a high-res gallery of the BMW 7 series hybrid
BMW has released more details on the 7-Series Activehybrid that will be debuting in Paris next month. We now know a few elements that differ from the Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid. While the…
Geneva '08 Preview: Mercedes-Benz announces Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid
Click the GLK Hybrid for a high-res gallery
Mercedes-Benz has just released details of the new Vision GLK BlueTec Hybrid concept they'll be showing at the Geneva Motor Show next month. The concept that's coming to Switzerland builds on the GLK…
VW Beetle goes from air-cooling to electron power
Over the past half century tens or hundreds of thousands of Type 1 Volkswagen Beetles have been transformed into other vehicles like dune buggies and assorted kit cars. Now a Methodist minister in Emporia, Kansas has used an old Beetle as the basis…
SAE 2010: Ford confirms Explorer, F150 Ecoboost, ups production target to 1.5M
On Tuesday, Ford's VP of global powertrain development Barb Samardzich will be addressing the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit and Ecoboost will again be at the top of her agenda. Samardzich will confirm that before the end…
Flying between London and Paris causes ten times more CO2 than the train
If you're traveling between continental Europe and Britain and care about the environment, you might want to consider alternatives to flying. Since there are no bridges across the English Channel, that leaves the channel tunnel and the EuroStar train…
Redesigned Nissan March goes on sale in Japan
2011 Nissan March – Click above for high-res image gallery
The all-new Nissan March, which debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in, you guessed it, March) went on sale in Japan this week. The March (or Micra, as it's known in Europe) is powered by a new…