Category: Autoblog

The New York Times has taken a look at the suitability of electric vehicles for use as Detroit taxis compared to gas and “other” vehicles. Needless to say, the Times found the EV to be a very good option for the low speed urban duty cycle typical of…

Chrysler has created some B-Roll footage of the Dodge Demon concept on the road and posted it up on YouTube. The clip is is intended for use as background footage to accompany news reports on the car, so it has no audio track. You'll just have add…

For some time now, Livonia, Michigan-based Roush engineering has been selling Ford F-series pickup trucks converted to run on either propane or both propane and gasoline. Availability of that conversion has now been expanded to include Ford's…

T.J. Donaghy runs a chauffeured car hire service in Orlando, Florida. It's one of those services that you can call up and a driver turns up at your door in a big black sedan to shuttle you around and you pay by the hour. The Lincoln Town Car has been…

We've written about ITM Power and their plans to build a home hydrogen generating station several times before. The British company now has a prototype unit running in a Sheffield along with a Ford Focus that has been converted to run on hydrogen.…

Everyone is all excited about biofuels today, but can you can guess who said “All the world is waiting for a substitute for gasoline.” It was Henry Ford, in 1916. Years ago I read a book called Ford, The Men and the Machines, that among other things…

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At the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, Audi made a big show of the Q7 TDI that they were planning to introduce to the U.S. market. That particular model is coming late this year or early next and will be powered by…

The momentum that General Motors was starting to get with its hybrid sales hit a major speed bump last month. October was a month were the business news was largely dominated by the a fast freeze in the world's credit markets making it incredibly…

Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of General Motors by Billy Durant. In spite of the financial crisis swirling around all three of the Detroit-based automakers, GM intends to take that day to celebrate. Part of that celebration…

The Renault-Nissan alliance's plans for world domination with electric vehicles takes another step forward today with the announcement of an agreement with LeasePlan. The Dutch leasing and fleet management company will be working with the automakers…