Three Toyota assembly plants have received Energy Star awards from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Toyota assembly plants in Georgetown, Kentucky and Princeton, Indiana and the New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI) plant in Fremont,…
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Mercedes and McLaren to finally build open-top SLR
Click the photo for a gallery of high-res shots of the 1999 Vision SLR concept
Mercedes Benz originally showed off the Vision SLR coupe at the 1999 Detroit Auto Show, followed by the roadster version of the same car in September of that year in…
Video of the ENV fuel cell motorcycle in action
There is a now a video of the ENV fuel cell bike in action. The bike has a range of 100 miles and a top speed of 50 mph. The bikes shown in the video are pre-production prototypes. According to the video the creators aim to have the bike in…
Toyota already building EV prototype with Tesla battery pack?
During a interview with a group of American media this afternoon in Nagoya, Japan, Toyota president Akio Toyoda revealed that his company is already in the process of building a prototype electric vehicle with a Tesla battery pack. The statement came…
Connecticut governor hopes to implement electric vehicle incentives
After nine months of meetings, the Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Council created by Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has issued its final report on how to promote the use of plug-in vehicles in the state. The list of proposed incentives covers…
EasyJet wants adult jets grounded to help the environment
European low-cost airline EasyJet got some attention last week with their proposal to build a new, cleaner emissions jet and now they are striking out against their competitors. As fairly recent entrant to the airline business, EasyJet has a fleet…
Improved air quality contributing to global warming?
Perhaps the law of unintended consequences has struck again. Or perhaps we really don't have a clue about what might be causing the earth's atmospheric temperature to rise. Either way an interesting new theory has popped in the study about what may…
Spy Shots: New Lotus Esprit Mule caught in the Arctic
A Lotus Esprit that has clearly grown several inches in its midsection has been photographed playing in the snow of northern Sweden where all the European automakers like to spend their winters. The scribes at Autocar have traced back the license…
Cadillac will not race again next year
As the new 2008 Cadillac CTS hits the streets and the monster new CTS-V is still somewhere on the horizon, GM has decided to terminate the Cadillac Racing program with the close of the 2007 season. The current racing CTS-V will make its swan song…
Is the latest Zap announcement announcement another reborn Lotus?
It's speculation time again. Zap has announced that they will be making an announcement next month about another proposed electric vehicle. Based on what we know about Zap, what kind of vehicle might this be? With the $30,000 price target and Zap's…