Category: Autoblog

The local police in Belmar, New Jersey have switched from using gas-powered scooters to patrol the beach area to GEM neighborhood electric vehicles. The scooters were apparently consuming up to fifty gallons a week of gasoline which has now been…

Back in my engine design class in college one of our lab experiments involved determining where the energy in gasoline goes in a running engine. Using an engine running on a dynamometer, we measured the amount of fuel going in, the power at the…

Kangoo be bop Z.E. – Click above for high-res image gallery
Since launching their collaboration last fall to make electric vehicles mainstream in France, Renault and power company EDF have made significant progress. One of the issues that must be…

Over the past few years millions of people around the world have joined online social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and, for those of you in Brazil, Orkut. Now a new site designed to bring people together has cropped up and unlike the better…

With the American Le Mans Series returning to Road Atlanta this weekend for its flagship event, the Petit Le Mans, Audi has returned to take on the French. Peugeot, of course, won this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans after a multi-year battle with the…

Dan Neil of the LA Times recently got a chance to spend some time with the new Smart ForTwo and came away less than impressed. The performance of the little three cylinder works fine in city driving but is barely adequate for getting on the highway.…

Big Dog quadri-cycle – Click above for high-res image gallery
Friday afternoon, we had the opportunity to walk around the site of the first-ever Maker Faire Detroit while exhibitors were getting set up. Among the wheeled contraptions we encountered…

Pre-production Chevrolet Volt – Click above to enlarge
An AutoblogGreen reader was out an about in the neighborhood this weekend and spotted an unusual car in a neighbor's driveway. Presumably the neighbor is a General Motors employee accumulating…

One of the many unfortunate casualties of General Motors' financial apocalypse is the loss of the Kappa platform, the small, rear-wheel drive architecture underpinning the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. With both of those brands being discontinued…

Click above for high-res gallery of our ride in the Corvette ZR1
Chevrolet officially kicked off series production of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 at its Bowling Green KY assembly plant this week and decided to celebrate by inviting the media out to drive…