2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
You might think that Greenpeace would love the idea of electric cars, but you'd be sadly mistaken. Greenpeace Germany's Wolfgang Lohbeck spoke at last week's “The New Automobile” conference…

California gas station operators have known since 2000 that they would have to install new nozzles on their gas pumps by tomorrow. And yet, at least 2,000 of the 3,900 stations in the Southern California region and 60 percent of stations statewide…

Shai Agassi wants to address the infrastructure side of the electric car problem. While electric cars can nominally be “fueled” by any electrical outlet, the fact is accessible outlets don't necessarily exist where most electric cars will be used in…

Click on the Smart for a high-res gallery of the little car
SmartUSA, the American distributor for the Smart ForTwo, is currently doing a summer roadshow to give most of the country their first up close look at the diminutive city car. They actually…

Not content with a major flex-fuel push, Saab is joining in on the two-mode hybrid party at General Motors. At the Geneva Motor Show today, Saab Managing Director Jan Ake Jonsson indicated that future Saabs will be even more closely based on other GM…

Apparently Dodge hasn't completely given up on the the idea of a smaller cheaper sports car than the Viper. After showing a number of concepts over the last decade including the Copperhead, Slingshot and the Razor (shown above), Dodge may be showing…

CarScoop has the first photos of the new 2008 Smart ForTwo. This is the first major re-work to the Smart since it's 1998 introduction, but at a glance it looks much like the current model. The car is slightly larger, and has an upgraded interior. The…

Red Bull has been sponsoring all sorts of competition Volkswagens in the last few years including the Touaregs that ran the Pikes Peak Hill Climb last year, four Dakar Rallies and the Darpa Grand Challenge. For the first time VW will be bringing a…

Apparently even the limited safety requirements applied by the U.S. government to vehicles classified as motorcycles were a bit too much for Zap Xebra. The Chinese-built electric vehicles are classed as motorcycles because they only have three…

Click for a gallery of possible Prius images
What you are looking at here may well be the first unofficial, official image of the third (fourth according to Toyota) generation Toyota Prius. The original hybrid isn't supposed to debut until we get to…