EcoV Electric LSEV – Click above for high-res image gallery
Richard Marks spent 25 years as a General Motors engineer, and at the end of his tenure he was toiling away on the EV1. Following the now-infamous demise of GM's first electric vehicle, he…
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Rumormill: Production BMW Efficient Dynamics sports car in 2013, M version too!
2009 BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
A production sports car based on last year's BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept will reportedly debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show and come to market by 2013.…
Chicago shifting city vehicles to hybrids, buys 300 Toyotas
Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US and they want to get greener. The city currently has 5,400 vehicles in their municipal fleet and they have decided to spend $8.7 million over the next three years on hybrid vehicles. They will be…
New York 2008: Saleen unveils E85 fueled S5S Raptor supercar concept
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A quarter century after Steve Saleen started building heavily modified high performance Ford Mustangs, the company that still bears his name, if not his direct involvement, unveiled a new concept car at the New York Auto…
Nissan showing off new technology at FISITA conference
All this week the annual World Automotive Congress of FISITA is going at Pacifico Yokohama in Japan. FISITA is the umbrella organization of automotive engineering societies around the world. This includes the Society of Automotive Engineers in the…
Report: Mark Fields tells dealers new compact Mercury is coming in 2011
Lincoln Concept C – Click for high-res image gallery
At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Orlando, FL on Sunday, Ford's President of the Americas Mark Fields announced the first new product for Mercury in several years. The…
Tesla's Martin Eberhard cuts Detroit a little slack
We reported the other day on a Wall Street Journal article on Tesla Motors and their Roadster which mainly covers the same ground that we and countless other outlets have discussed for the past year. Here's a little more context about what was said…
In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2008 Dodge Avenger SXT Flex-Fuel
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Here at ABG we've written pretty extensively about flex-fuel vehicles over the past year but we've never actually tried one out for a first hand evaluation. Thanks to Chrysler, that…
Nissan wants to bring its EVs to China in 2011
A local Nissan official has announced that the company wants to start selling its upcoming electric vehicles in China in 2011. Yasuaki Hashimoto, president of Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd. announced that Wuhan, in central China, would likely be…
Vectrix and Tesla together? It's not beyond the realm of possibility
With Vectrix's electric scooter's sales extremely disappointing there are plenty of questions about where the company goes from here. One interesting possibility could be a tie-up with Tesla Motors. Besides the price ($12,000!), range and performance…