What appear to be official press shots of the all-new 2009 Honda Fit have surfaced online for the first time. The new Fit should be making its official debut in a few weeks at the Tokyo Motor Show, with home market sales beginning this winter. The…

Now that the second edition of the Smart ForTwo has been on sale for a few months, Brabus has revealed their “high performance” edition of the diminutive city car. Brabus has added a turbocharger to the three-cylinder engine, increasing the output…

One of the many topics we discussed during the dinner last week with Gary Smyth and Nick Zielinski was end-of-life for batteries. As we all know batteries don't last forever and we can't dump them in landfills. Just because a battery doesn't have…

When the the Detroit automakers' financial crisis started getting more media coverage a couple of months ago, a study was released by the Center for Automotive Research estimating that the possible collapse of the industry could ultimately cost up to…

WIRED Magazine is setting up a custom house celebrating all things modern and high-tech and they've chosen the BMW Hydrogen 7 to occupy the garage. The WIRED LivingHome is supposed to ' serve as an example of how people can effectively balance green…

Renault Fluence Zero Emissions Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery
Renault has created a new website that is dedicated to promoting its upcoming model range of battery powered cars. The site is actually about more than just the Fluence,…

Mystery BMW concept – click above for high-res image gallery
It looks like someone at BMW is going to be in big trouble shortly. It appears that what we are looking at here is the concept car that the German automaker expected to unveil at the…

This fall, Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit will become the first university in the United States to offer a full graduate engineering degree program in electric drive systems. Wayne joins the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and other…

Late next year, dual clutch gearboxes will cease to be a Volkswagen Group exclusive when Volvo introduces a similar design in their S40/V50 models. The dual clutch gearbox first appeared in the mid-1980s in some Porsche 962 endurance racers and Audi…

John Dingell has been in the House of Representatives for fifty-two years, seven years longer than Barak Obama has been alive. When the prospective Democratic presidential nominee came to Detroit recently and berated the domestic carmakers for not…