Category: Autoblog

By now plenty of people have seen concept vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Ford HySeries Drive Edge. One of the biggest advantage of the series hybrid drivetrains in these machines is the flexibility they provide in choosing an auxiliary power unit.…

During yesterday's preview of what GM will be showing at the Paris Motor Show, Ed Welburn showed off a new Saab concept. The 9X Air is an open-top variant of the 9X BioHybrid concept that debuted at Geneva last spring. The 9X Air adds a new…

2011 Chevrolet Volt – Click above for high-res image gallery
Engineering products that are meant to be sold to consumers is a process that is invariably about compromise. If you are building a one-off product for a single client, you can optimize it…

Ford unveiled the Verve Concept at this years Frankfurt Motor Show to give the world a preview of the replacement for their little Fiesta. The production version is expected to debut at the Geneva Motor Show next spring before going in sale in Europe…

The city of London, like all big cities, generates a lot of waste. Finding somewhere to put all that trash has become an increasing problem in recent years as dumps fill up. Trash usually contains a lot of organic material (according to the organic…

You might make a case that a car company that only sells a few hundred or even a few thousand vehicles in a 16-million-vehicle-a-year market doesn't really make much of a dent in emissions or fuel consumption. This is particularly true if the cars…

2010 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
It seems like cities all over America want to participate in the upcoming Nissan electric vehicle party. The latest locale to plug in to the program is Orlando, FL, home of more theme parks…

General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University have decided to continue the work that resulted in victory in the DARPA Urban Challenge last year. The school and the automaker are establishing a collaborative research lab to continue the work they have…

Fiat 500 – click above for high-res image gallery
For the first time in living memory, Chrysler/ Fiat won't be holding a press conference at the Detroit Auto Show, which starts next week, and hasn't given any confirmation of what it will be showing.…

As the next generation Global Compact Car platform from GM debuts over the next couple of years, one of the variants that's coming is a compact MPV. Currently, Opel has a Delta-based MPV called the Zafira which will be joined by a Chevrolet version…