One of my personal favorite congressional wing-nuts is Dana Rohrabacher of California. Last week during a hearing on UN climate change report, he enlightened his colleagues with a possible explanation of period of global warming fifty-five million…
Category: Autoblog
GM reportedly pondering new small truck, return to minivans
Chevrolet mid-size pickup patent drawing – Click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre was apparently quite chatty during his visit to the Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City, MI this week. In addition to his…
Obama Auto Task Force heads back to DC to decide what to do about Detroit
After driving the Chevy Volt prototype and sitting down for a number of discussions, the members of the president's task force on the auto industry have returned to Washington. While the team was in Michigan over the past few days, they had a chance…
That fancy sat-nav system could help you drive greener
We've all gotten lost at some point trying find some place we've never been to before and it certainly goes without saying that we waste a lot of gas driving around aimlessly trying to figure out where we are. A new study in Britain estimates that…
MIT working on semi-autonomous cars that adapt to drivers
The mavens at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are always up to something interesting. The latest project out of the MIT AgeLab is the Aware Car. What looks like a conventional Volvo to the casual observer is in fact bristling with sensors.…
California Attorney General drops greenhouse gas suit against carmakers
When I started posting here way back in 2006, one of the very first stories I wrote was about the state of California filing a lawsuit against six of the largest automakers over the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The original premise was…
Frankfurt Preview: 2010 BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics Edition, 57.4 mpg (U.S.)
2010 BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics Edition – click above for high-res image gallery
Next month at the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW will be rolling out an extra high mileage Efficient Dynamics Edition of its 320d sedan. Like most European BMWs, this one is…
GM moves nearly 2,000 hybrids in September
In yet another dismal sales month here in the U.S., General Motors actually did better than many companies with only a 15.8 percent drop in September compared to last year. There were even some bright spots in the numbers with the Malibu being up 192…
Clarification of the Chevy Volt mule spy shots
Apparently the the spy-shots of a Chevy Volt mule that turned up on-line late last night were not necessarily what they appeared to be. According to GM the photo's in question actually showed a ride and drive mule that is just testing suspension…
Googlebots to hit the road with Stanford sensing technology
Google began the latest online mapping craze a couple of years ago when it kicked old school stalwart Mapquest to the curb. Since then Microsoft and Yahoo have jumped into the fray and the gang from Redmond has made a lot of progress with 3-D…