One of the great things about a sunny summer afternoon is hopping into a pristine car and hitting the open road. The only problem is after a few hours of fun, the windshield is usually covered with little splatters that get increasing hard to see…

Codexis and Shell are expanding their collaboration on developing non-food based biofuels. Codexis develops what the company calls biocatalysts, the enzymes used to break down cellulose into simple sugar molecules. Codexis and Shell have had a…

One of the most iconic and recognizable shapes on the road is the Mini, and 2009 marks the golden anniversary of the original. The brainchild of Sir Alec Issigonis, the Mini was created in response to the 1956 Suez crisis which strangled the supply…

Enova Systems has been collaborating with IC Bus for the past couple of years to build a series of plug-in hybrid school buses for testing purposes. Enova recently had an independent CARB-certified lab conduct dynamometer tests on a pair of PHEV…

In the latest edition of AmandaAcrossAmerica, Amanda Congdon meets up with Nate, a Minneapolis man who lives in his motor home, and pays very little to operate it. The RV has been modified to run on recycled vegetable oil from restaurants. It…

The California Air Resources Board wants to implement new rules to reduce greenhouse gases from motor vehicles but they need a waiver from the EPA to do so. They initially applied for the Waiver back in December 2005 and the EPA is finally going to…

Click above for high-res image gallery of the Lotus Evora
When Lotus showed off its new Evora at the LA Auto Show in November, Engineering director Roger Becker made it clear that the car we were seeing was just the beginning. Lotus has never been a…

Honda U3-X – Click above for high-res image gallery
If you happen to be around New York City in the next few days or in Detroit for the SAE World Congress next week, you can check out the Honda's fascinating U3-X in person. The U3-X is personal…

Click above for a high-res gallery of the MB GLK Hybrid
When Mercedes-Benz premiered the new GLK compact SUV at the Detroit Auto Show in January, the styling struck most people as at best awkward. With the outward appearance of the full-size GL…

After several years of selling small volumes of its Altima sedan using Toyota's hybrid drive system, Nissan is finally ready to roll out its first gas-electric model using technology developed in-house. The first model to be so equipped will be the…