Prior to the yesterday, AutoblogGreen got to tour the facility. This station was built by a partnership between Ford, BP and BOC Group. The BOC Group actually supplies the hydrogen for the station and BOC Project Development Manager for Hydrogen…

With the overall automotive market at best stagnant in recent years and in complete free fall in the past year, one way for suppliers to expand their revenues is to get into new product areas. Thus Continental, long known for tires, brake systems,…

A project in Finland is aiming to use the power of open-source to gather a critical mass of people interested in converting cars to electric power. The idea is get enough people who are interested in doing the project so that the cost can be brought…

While both General Motors and Ford have shown extended range electric vehicle concepts, only the former has committed to producing such a vehicle. We have written endlessly here about the Chevrolet Volt, but now there may be a new challenger on the…

Renault-Nissan Alliance EV in Lombardy – Click above for high-res image
The Renault- Nissan alliance is betting the farm on electric vehicles in the next few years and CEO Carlos Ghosn knows that the automakers can't do it alone. In order for EVs to…

In perhaps the most obvious move of the decade, MarketWatch is reporting that GM will in fact bring the upcoming Chevy Beat to the U.S. market. The Beat was one of a trio of mini-car concepts that appeared at the New York Auto Show in 2007. GM…

May was another dismal month for car sales pretty much everywhere, including Volkswagen. There was however one bright spot at VW: sales of its Jetta TDI. Overall, sales of the Jetta were up 27.6 percent in May and it appears that most of that gain…

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At the Frankfurt Motor Show today, BMW finally took the camo off their latest crossover and in the process showed off their first application of the Two-Mode hybrid system they have been co-developing with General…

Oil sands bitumen extraction cell – Wikipedia
The western Canadian province of Alberta comprises less than ten percent of the country's population but is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, due primarily to oil sands production. Extracting…

At some point in the coming months, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the organizing body for the the 24 hours of Le Mans, is expected to release a new set of technical regulations for the prototype classes. Among the changes the ACO is likely to…