To paraphrase the once great weekend update anchor Chevy Chase, “Generalissimo Saab is still dead” and appears likely to stay that way. Bloomberg reports that Spyker is the last bidder standing to pick up the Swedish brand from General Motors,…

Tesla Model S – Click above for high-res image
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda held a joint press in Palo Alto, California to announce that the two companies would be collaborating on electric…

Chevrolet Volt prototype at Pikes Peak – click above for high-res image gallery
One of the main concerns that many people have about the Chevy Volt is how well it will perform when running in charge sustaining mode with the engine-generator cranking…

2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery
Mercedes-Benz has confirmed that the S400 hybrid won't remain the only efficiency minded member of the S-Class family for long. The S350 Bluetec will be coming to the U.S. market…

Following last week's announcement by Toyota that it would recall several hundred thousand units of the 2010 Prius and Lexus HS250h to update the brake control software, there have been numerous questions about how these systems work. Vehicles with…

The reality of hydrogen as an energy carrier for transportation remains a painfully slow development, particularly the distribution of H 2. The total number of publicly-accessible hydrogen stations in the United States remains in the few dozen range.…

The single most expensive environmental initiative put forward by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Conservative) was a biofuels initiative that is now seeing significant new opposition. The CDN$2.2 billion (about a $ 1 trillion at current…

Analyst J.D. Power and Associates has put together a new report projecting future market share for hybrid and diesel vehicles in the US market. The company is projecting a steady rise in market share for both powertrain types in the next few years.…

It'll be another month before Tesla officially pulls the cover off the Model S, but Wired Had their in-house photoshopper Holl Liou take a crack at rendering the car. Tesla has sent out two teaser shots so far ( 1, 2) and Liou has used the enhanced…

The hybrid taxi movement is spreading to Chicago today as a brand new Ford Escape hybrid goes into service. Driver Cheikh “Bamba” Dione will be driving the new Escape out the Chicago Carriage Cab on his way to saving $6,000 a year in fuel costs. The…