Toyota wants to double worldwide sales of its hybrids to over 1 million units a year within the next decade and is adding production capacity to hep it get there. In Japan today, Toyota announced plans to add production of Camry hybrids at two more…

Fiat Doblo – click above for high-res image gallery
Earlier this week, Fiat unveiled a new version of its Doblo light commercial van and there has been speculation that it could come to North America as a new member of the Ram brand to challenge the…

The law of unintended consequences strikes again. There's a new twist in the soap opera that is Daimler minus Chrysler. A DaimlerChrysler without the US branch and its associated liabilities would be a significantly smaller company and a potentially…

Researchers at Rice University are studying a new way of potentially storing hydrogen within tiny carbon nano-structures called buckyballs. So far they haven't actually been able to physically test their ideas. They have only done computer…

As we mentioned last week, the first batch of a dozen Tesla Roadster has left the California coast on a ship headed to Japan. These are the first of 20 Signature Series Roadster Sport models for the Japanese market. The first Japanese customers…

Castroneves leads Franchitti into turn 1, click for more
The first IRL race at Belle Isle in Detroit is underway and twenty laps in pole sitter Helio Castroneves Castro Neves still leads Andretti-Green's Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan. The cars are…

1969 Opel Aero GT – Click above for high-res image gallery
While attending a General Motors media event in Germany last evening, the automaker laid out several old Opels, including this particularly unique example of the GT sports coupe. While the…

The tax credits that the federal government offers for buying hybrid vehicles are tied to sales. As the sales of any given model exceed 60,000 units total, the tax credit is phased out. The Toyota Prius is no longer eligible for federal tax credits,…

Arguments could be made about the green credentials of any alternative fuel vehicles such as the chemical content and energy required to produce batteries, the problem of producing and storing hydrogen and more. But here is a racer produced by a…

click above image for more pics of the Tesla Roadster
New Tesla Motors CEO Michael Marks sent out a letter to all their customers yesterday confirming both some good and bad news. The good news is that the efforts of Tesla's engineers over the last…