Category: Autoblog

2011 Hyundai Sonata – Click above for high-res image gallery
It seems that Hyundai is having a very similar problem to Buick in its home market. Overseas customers can't get enough of its products, but buyers at home are rather ho-hum. Just as Buick…

We all know that electric cars are nothing new. I was driving electric cars three decades ago. I even had a whole fleet of them. Of course, they were each only a few inches long and could only run as long as the electricity supply stayed…

Chevy Volt going through a shake test as part of its durability evaluation – Click above for high-res image gallery
General Motors offered an update this afternoon on the current status of the testing and development of the lithium ion batteries for…

We know that producing fuels from plant material is probably beneficial from the perspective of carbon dioxide emissions. After all the plants are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow rather than just releasing carbon that was…

If you happened to be watching CBS Evening News this past weekend, you might have noticed a story about electric vehicles with a focus on the upcoming Nissan Leaf. While most of the report was pretty innocuous and familiar to readers of this site –…

Click the Peugeot 908 HY for high-res images
In the current world of big time international endurance racing, two cars stand head and shoulders above the rest, the Audi R10 TDI and the Peugeot 908 HDi. Put these two Le Mans Prototype class 1 cars,…

As the calendar rolls over to 2008, European drivers in the market for a hot hatch will have a new option. Toyota will launch a new version of their Auris hatchback powered by a 175hp 2.2L diesel. The 295lb-ft of torque helps get the Auris SR180 to…

Nissan has just announced that the Department of Energy has approved its request for a $1.6 billion low interest loan under the ATVM program. The money will be used to update the Smyrna, TN factory to build up to 150,000 battery electric vehicles and…

Chris Preuss, CEO of General Motors' OnStar division, recently revealed that the telematics system would be relaunching this summer with a bunch of new functionality courtesy of an unannounced partner. It now looks like that partner may be Google…

The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Metropolitan Company of Urban Transport of São Paulo (EMTU) have embarked on a hydrogen fuel cell bus test and development program. The project is being done in partnership with the United Nations…