Australians looking for a cheaper alternative to gasoline now have a very cost effective option with a dual fuel conversion being offered by Holden. The installation allows Commodores and derivatives to be operated on either LPG or gasoline. Holden…

Although New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that all cabs in the city must be propelled by at least a hybrid powertrain by 2012, moving to full battery propulsion looks like it's going to have to wait a bit longer. The Ford Escape…

Click above for high-res image gallery of the GL320 BlueTec
Like the big Two-Mode hybrid SUVs from General Motors, the Mercedes GL320 BlueTec is designed to be a more efficient kind of brute. It's designed for those who still feel that they need to…

Click to enlarge the new Honda Insight
Honda has just released the first official photos of its eagerly-anticipated new dedicated hybrid car that will debut early in 2009. The car that until now had been referred to by Honda officials simply as the…

Click the Roadster for a high-res gallery from the Tesla store opening.
The very first Tesla Motors retail outlet had its grand opening party last night in Santa Monica, CA. We're still waiting for some first hand accounts from the event so if anyone…

Going on a month-long road trip and only managing to eek out 150 miles per day demonstrates that electric city cars should probably not be removed from their natural environment. The BBC's Peter Curran is in the midst of 4,500 mile journey around…

Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 – click above for high-res image gallery
For its current Le Mans prototype racing program, Aston Martin has teamed up with veteran chassis builder Lola to create a car powered by a race-ready version of its production V12. But…

In recent months most of the diesel discussion from Stuttgart has focused on the BlueTec 3.0L V-6 that's going into the E, ML and GL class vehicles. Next week in the dark, cramped environs of Cobo Hall in Detroit, Mercedes will be unveiling a new…

Following a customer town hall meeting held by Tesla Motors last week it was reported that the company was considering shipping some early cars with short-life transmissions and retrofitting them later. That information came from notes that were…

James Glickenhaus is best known in these parts as the rich guy who paid Pininfarina a lot of money to create a custom body for his Ferrari Enzo, thus creating the renowned and oft-driven Ferrari P4/5. Apparently Glickenhaus is not strictly a Ferrari…