By now we've all heard about “thermal incidents” with various type of lithium batteries and we've probably even seen videos of exploding laptops. Many of you have also complained about why it's taking so long for car-makers to get lithium batteries…

Jarno Trulli shakes down the Lotus Evora Cup racer – Click above for high-res image gallery
It's not at all unusual for Formula One drivers on teams that have connections to consumer automakers to spend some of their off time developing road cars for…

As we were discussing the Chevy Volt with some colleagues the other day, a potentially serious problem for EVs came up during the conversation. For the foreseeable future, the primary market for plug-ins and EVs will be urban areas where the range…

Formula One teams are continuing to develop their KERS hybrid drive systems in preparation for a 2009 season launch. This week, the Honda F1 team wrapped up its 2008 testing allotment at the Jerez track in Spain with a day of running the kinetic…

click for a high res gallery of GM's hybrid pickups
General Motors is currently in the midst of launching its hybrid full-size pickup trucks and our man Jeremy is in San Antonio this week to try them out. One thing about the auto industry is that as…

Click on the image above for a gallery of high-res images of the 2008 C-Class
TÜV is a German company that does certification testing to verify the safety and quality of products and services. Yesterday, Mercedes-Benz announced that TÜV has awarded…

BMW will unveiling the latest edition to its sport activity vehicle lineup this fall, probably at the Frankfurt Motor Show. While the new X1 isn't ready to be shown publicly just yet, the Munich automaker did let a writer from the Times of London…

2011 Buick Regal – Click above for high-res image gallery
Once up a time in the '80s, it was fashionable in Detroit to create so-called Euro-sedans by taking conventional mainstream grandma-mobiles and painting all the chrome black, dispensing with…

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid – front
The Fusion's tail-lamps have also been reshaped at the opposite end of the car. The reflectors have a molded in honeycomb shape that echoes the molding in the fog-lamp pockets up front. The rear vertical face of the…

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Shelby GT500 Mustang
Sometime around late 2003, I first saw the car that was at that time still known as Condor. Condor was the Ford internal code name for the SVT version of the yet to be publicly shown…