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Toyota iQ Wins Japanese Car of the Year Award
Thanks to Patrick Norton for the heads up on this: Just a year after it was unveiled, the Toyota iQ (super-compact) car won the Japanese Car of the Year award. The iQ is a super-compact car targetted directly at the Smart Car fortwo market, offering a similarly sized car that is designed to seat 4 people [...]
Continue reading...Poll Results: Hybrid Technology is Unimpressive to Most People
Friday, September 5, 2008
Well the results are in from our last poll, and most people agree that they would get a hybrid or alternative-fuel car once the technology improved. Given the combination of 1st and 2nd answers totalling almost 50%, then combining the “Yes when the style improves” giving us 60% of folks basically either saying “Yes I would [...]
Continue reading...Honda Unveils Prius-Fighting Hybrid Insight
Friday, September 5, 2008
Honda unveiled it’s plans to re-launch a lower-cost Hybrid Insight 5-seater sedan-hatchback back into the market in the form of the most competitive car the Toyota Prius has had to stand up to in the last 5 years. The Insight was originally a two-seater hybrid that Honda introduced in 1999 to much praise, averaging the highest [...]
Continue reading...MDI’s Air Car Brought to US by Zero Pollution Motors
Saturday, August 16, 2008
We covered the MDI-designed “Air Car” back in May, with a very cool video describing the design of the air engine and technology behind the futuristic “to be” car as well as the existing in-use applications of the hyper-powerful compressed-air-based engines. Jens Eckels has sent along news that it looks like US company Zero Pollution Motors [...]
Continue reading...Antro Solo Human-Solar-Gas-Electric-Hybrid Does 150mpg
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Antro Solo, pictured above, is a Solar-Gas-Electric and “Human” powered hybrid vehicles that came out of design shops in Hungary. The car is designed to go 150mpg and is planned to enter the market in 2012 at a $20,000 price point. The entire car, chasis made out of carbon fiber, weighs less than 600lbs but [...]
Continue reading...The Air Car / Hybrid
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Brad Agdern sent in a hell of an interesting movie from the show Beyond Tomorrow covering the advancements made in air-based engines from the company MDI. The idea being that instead of combustion moving the pistons in the car up and down the car holds compressed air in fiber-carbon tubes that are compressed to roughly [...]
Continue reading...Greenest Cars on the Planet, Prius #12
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
This was a shock to me, but a report from Cardiff University and automotive consultants Thames Clifford rated the top 12 greenest cars in the world, and the Prius surprisingly came in #12. The entire list is as follows (in order of greeness): Smart Roadster Smart Fortwo cabriolet Citroen C1 1.0i Peugeot 107 1.0 Citroen C1 1.4 HDi Fiat Panda 1.2 Ford Ka [...]
Continue reading...Electric Car War Heats Up
Friday, September 14, 2007
After GM intentionally destroyed it’s lead with the electric car in early 2000, it looks like the battle to win the electric car race is heating up. First GM announces the Volt and starts promoting it years before a production model is completed. The way the Volt works is to run completely off of internal batteries, [...]
Continue reading...NC Man Fined $1000 for Using Alt. Fuel
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Slashdot reports that a North Carolina man was fined $1000 “Fuel Tax” by city officials when it was discovered he was burning Vegetable Oil in his car, instead of standard gasoline. Reggie Little, assistant director of the motor fuel taxes division said: We’re not here to hurt the small guy, we’re just trying to make sure [...]
Continue reading...Ford Airstream, Hydrogen/Electric Concept Car
Sunday, January 14, 2007
This is slick. Ford took the wraps off of its new Hydrogen/Electric hybrid concept car called the Airstream. Autogreen had the scoop. Check out Autogreen’s gallery for more shots.
Continue reading...Chevy Volt, Rechargable Hybrid by 2010
Sunday, January 7, 2007
AutoblogGreen has the scoop on the new Chevy Volt (think of a mini version of the sporty Cadillac) that can get up to 40miles on a single electric charge, can recharge in 6 hours, and with gas or ethanol can run up to 640 miles on a single tank. Those are some pretty incredible stats [...]
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
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