Click on the image to go to the gallery of high-res pics of the Volt
Since we first told the story of the Chevy Volt concept here on AutoblogGreen, you, the readers have submitted a lot of comments about both the car and GM's intentions in the EV…
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LA Preview: Mazda2 to make its North American debut
2011 Mazda2 – click above for high-res image gallery
Mazda has finally made it official this morning: it will be bringing its B-segment Mazda2 to the North American market late next year. As you are likely aware, the current generation Mazda2 has…
Chinese may finally get their chance to buy real Smart ForTwos
Over the past couple of years, several clones of the Smart ForTwo have come from Chinese car factories. Unfortunately none of these companies have had any affiliation with Smart's parent company, Daimler. Daimler AG COO Rainer Schmueckle revealed in…
Frankfurt Preview: Lotus develops a range extender engine
The latest product of Lotus Engineering's ongoing development work on alternative drivetrains is a new engine custom designed for use as a range extender in electric drive vehicles. The engineers at Lotus have developed an optimized architecture…
Detroit Preview: MINI Beachcomber concept
MINI Beachcomber concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
We still have few more months to wait before the production version of the new MINI Crossover arrives, but the folks in Oxford will be dropping a new concept in Detroit next month to…
Oil refiner CEO advocates for higher fuel taxes
In recent weeks, as the price of crude oil and refined gasoline have continued to decline from their summertime highs, an increasing number of people have been jumping on the gas tax bandwagon. Many analysts and pundits have come out in favor of a…
Rumormill: Apple COO Tim Cook for General Motors CEO slot?
A top Apple Inc. executive is reportedly be being considered for the chief executive officer post at General Motors. Over the last couple of years as the Detroit auto industry descended into financial oblivion, numerous observers from (mostly)…
BP buys 50 percent stake in Brazilian ethanol venture
British Petroleum is acquiring a 50 percent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a Brazilian company that's currently building a new ethanol plant in Edéia, Goias State, Brazil and planning a second plant. The new plant will have a capacity of 115…
Norway adds bicycle trams to help cyclists up hills
Click on the drawing to go see a video of the bicycle tram in action
On RocketBoom the other day, Joanne mentioned a Norwegian city that has bicycle trams to help people climb hills. Norway is a very mountainous country and riding a bicycle can be…
Our future does not include an energy monoculture
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a monoculture as:
1 : the cultivation or growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural or forest land
2 : a crop or a population of a single kind of organism grown on land in monoculture
3 : a…