Miles Electric Vehicles is continuing to beef up its executive lineup, this time naming a new Co-Chairman alongside founder Miles Rubin. Steven “Mac” Heller has been on the board since last November. Heller was formerly head of mergers and…

A new 130MW wind farm is being installed in Bahce, Turkey that will add to the 84MW of wind power in place in the country at the beginning of this year. General Electric Energy will be supplying 52 of their latest 2.5MW wind turbines for the project.…

Many Chinese car makers have been accused of copying other's designs, such as the Chery QQ. But at least one of the Chinese cars on display at this years Detroit Auto Show is most definitely not a clone. In recent years most car designers have worked…

BMW is launching a refreshed version of its mainstream 3-Series sedan this fall with tweaked front and rear styling. On the mechanical side, we already know about the coming 3.0L dual turbo diesel for the U.S. market. One other change that's coming…

The Los Angeles Times' Dan Neil recently wrote a review of the new 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid and, well, he pretty much likes it. In many respects it's very much like a new Toyota Camry Hybrid, which is to be expected since Nissan is licensing the…

DaimlerChrysler and BMW have announced plans to expand their hybrid drive-train co-development beyond the existing work the two companies are doing with General Motors. The German carmakers are working with GM on the two-mode parallel hybrid system…

Cenex is a public-private consortium that aims to help British companies move toward greener technologies. They run a knowledge transfer network that helps companies to share low carbon and fuel cell technology and also promotes activities that…

Canadian cellulosic ethanol developer Iogen Corporation and its joint venture partner Royal Dutch Shell have committed further funding to keep the venture going for two more years. Iogen Energy is currently running a demonstration plant near Ottawa…

A vehicle in motion has a lot of energy passing through it various ways. The limited capacity of electro-chemical batteries means engineers have to find any way they can to reduce wasted energy and recapture as much as possible. The primary means of…

The Telegraph is a major British newspaper and it's just published a list of what it deems the 100 most beautiful cars of all time. No matter what country you visit, regional automotive journalists seem to have some degree of bias toward the local…