Click on the photo for a high res gallery from the AEV factory tour
Here are AutoblogGreen, we've done several reports on various neighborhood electric vehicles such as the various models from GEM and a factory visit to American Electric Vehicle that…
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Mitsubishi to sell electric car in the U.S.
Mitsubishi President Osamu Masuko said the company plans to start selling an electric car similar to the hybrid concept they showed at the 2006 Detroit Auto Show. The car is likely to be based on the next-generation Colt platform which is smaller…
Toyota begins hybrid Camry production in United States
Toyota has been building Camrys for the US market in Georgetown, Kentucky for 20 years now and the plant has produced about 6.7 million vehicles. Since the first Camrys rolled off the line, Toyota has added production of the Avalon and Solara and…
Next-gen Saab 9-5 to get 1.6L base engine
Saab's decision to start down-sizing goes into full effect in 2009 with the debut of the new 9-5. The 9-5 is expected to break out the Geneva Motor Show in March. Saab's largest car will be built on the new Epsilon II architecture that debuted last…
Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles to enter Automotive X-Prize
Click to enlarge the 1/4 scale model of the EXV-LS
This morning serial automotive entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin announced that his Visionary Vehicles company is developing a car that they will enter into the Automotive X-Prize. Visionary Vehicles has…
Inhabitat looks at top green transport trends of the year
The problem with looking at apparent trends over a short time period is that what looks like a trend one day may be nothing more than a statistical blip. Looked at over a slightly longer period, it may turn out to be unsustainable. Nonetheless,…
Chrysler to adopt 8-speed ZF automatic transmission
Chrysler is set to become the first U.S.-based automaker to adopt eight-speed automatic transmissions. ZF announced on Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to provide its increasingly widely used 8HP transmission for Chrysler applications.…
Cheap paintable solar cells
Prof. Somenath Mitra at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and his research team have created a new type of photovoltaic cell that can be applied to flexible plastic sheets by either painting or printing processes. The hope is to eventually allow…
Lotus 2-Eleven GT4 finishes first 24 hour race in Dubai
The new GT4 version of the Lotus 2-Eleven track car made its competition debut in Dubai last week with a strong run marred by a mid-race gearbox failure. The car was campaigned by the Empire Motorsports team from Malaysia that took it easy in…
Green Street Fair coming to Plymouth MI May 3-4
For those of you in the southeast Michigan area, you might want to swing by the Green Street Fair in Plymouth MI this weekend. The street fair will feature exhibits and workshops on all things green, from gardening, recycling and transportation.…