Category: Autoblog

Click on the photo for a huge high-res gallery of the 2008 Escape Hybrid
Last November, Ford introduced the second generation of their Escape compact SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show with a new look to fit in with the latest Ford Trucks. When the…

All car sales in the UK have tanked in recent months just as they have here in the US market. Perhaps more surprisingly, sales of electric cars – which had been doing relatively well, especially in London – took a nosedive. Aside from the general…

For those aspiring racers interested in competing in the new Volkswagen Jetta TDI cup this year, you only have a few weeks left to register. VW has set a February 29 deadline for 16-26 year old drivers to sign up for the inaugural running of the…

Green Star Products has finished the first phase of testing of an algae biodiesel pond in Montana. The first pond contains 40,000 liters of water but doesn't contain any algae yet. This phase involved controlling the water temperature, pH,…

Aptera 2e final design rendering – Click above to enlarge
While Aptera has yet to respond to our request for a comment about about the reported turmoil there, Darryl Siry has apparently been able to talk to some people close to the situation.…

Smart ForTwos outside Cobo Hall. Click the image for a high res gallery
Smart USA is here at the Detroit Auto Show with the new second Generation ForTwo and they will be making an announcement this afternoon during the Mercedes-Benz press conference.…

A new bio-oil production facility is taking shape in Guelph, Ontario about 50 miles west of Toronto. Dynamotive Energy Systems is building the plant to produce 200 metric tonnes per day of oil from waste biomass. The first of eight production modules…

Over at Auto Fiends they have some new camera phone pics of the Volvo XC60 crossover out on a test drive in the Los Angeles area. While in and of itself, that is no big deal, the photographer noticed something unusual about this particular vehicle.…

One of the big stories today over on our sister site Autoblog is the new Corvette ZR1. The ZR1 is propelled by a new LS9 version of the classic small block V-8 that's been heavily beefed up and supercharged to yield at least 620hp. On several…

Boulder, Colorado based Solix Biofuels is teaming up with Colorado State University to commercialize the production of biodiesel fuels from algae. Algae are capable of producing 100 times more oil per acre than current oil crops like canola and soy,…