Nissan Light Commercial Electric Vehicle sketch – Click above to enlarge
At the Work Truck 2010 show in St. Louis today, Nissan Americas president Carlos Tavares announced that the company is working to bring its recently launched NV200 compact van…

I don't know how long it's been live, but Yahoo! has added a green center to their autos page. They have reviews and ratings of alternative fuel vehicles and articles explaining different technologies. They've also set up some discussion groups…

Over in Europe, Hertz has updated its “Green Collection” rental car fleet. The expanded fleet is available in more countries and all of the vehicles that fall under the “green” banner have CO 2 emissions below 140 g/km and more than half of the…

2010 Ford F150 Raptor R – Click above for high-res image gallery
Does the idea of a $100,000 pickup truck give you heart palpitations? If so, you might want to skip over the rest of this text. For the past year Ford has been using off-road races like…

The American Le Mans Series yesterday announced that Intersport Racing has decided to run their car on cellulosic ethanol for the 2008 season. They are the third team to announce plans to run on the new biofuel and the first to run it in a prototype.…

For the past century and a half, the developed world has relied on petroleum and its by-products for a large proportion of our energy needs. The reason oil has been so dominant is easy to figure: it's remarkably energy dense and at the same time it's…

AutoblogGreen had a chance to chat with Micky Bly, executive directory of hybrid vehicle development and batteries at General Motors the evening before the opening of the 2010 Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress. We asked Micky about GM's…

While Toyota is busy pouring cash into expanding battery production capacity for hybrid vehicles, they apparently haven't forgotten about the other end of their lineup. There remains the possibility that Toyota could add a heavy duty pickup to the…

The current economic turmoil has claimed another victim: the 2009 edition of the Michelin Challenge Bibendum. The event, which has been held more or less annually since 2000, was scheduled to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next April, but now…

At the Alternative Fuel Cars Forum in Ann Arbor the other day Sebastian, Jeremy and I got spend twenty minutes chatting with Dr. David Cole, the Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research. As a long-time professor at the University of Michigan,…