Ford Focus EV Now Available for Lease at $199/Month - Same as Nissan Leaf
30 Oct 2012, 13:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Lease rates for the Nissan Leaf have been steadily falling ever since its launch, and now you can lease a Leaf, for a period of 24 or 36 months, with 199$/month. Now, Ford is fighting back, and appa...
New Nissan Leaf Ad Is Simple and Straightforward
30 Oct 2012, 13:02 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Instead of relying on complicated concepts and ideas to get a car ad to work at its peak intended efficiency, as some manufacturers tend to do, when they try to hard to sell a car as being in a cert...
Jay Leno Is Impressed by Tesla’s Model S
30 Oct 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Jay Leno’s opinion on cars matters to a lot of people, and with good reason, as he always knows what he’s talking about, and always seems to ask the right questions - the same questions ...
Can You Move a Fridge with a Golf Cart?
29 Oct 2012, 16:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The answer appears to be yes, as this man proves. You do need an extra set of wheels underneath the fridge, but it seems like a perfectly feasible way to move it around. Furthermore it is all-green ...
Mitt Romney Promises Reevaluation of Efficiency Standards and EVs
29 Oct 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mitt Romney doesn`t really agree with the way the Obama administration has handled the idea of new and stricter fuel efficiency standards, as well as its outright support for EVs, virtually ignoring...
The New Rotary Engine: How to Make it Feasible
26 Oct 2012, 16:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Mazda may have used the Wankel rotary engine extensively in many of their cars, since back in 1967, when they launched their first rotary-powered offering, the Cosmo 110S, a lightweight sports...
Why Are Electric Motorcycles So Damn Expensive?
26 Oct 2012, 15:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The question isn't by far something new, but we were expecting something more form the E-industry after all this time. I mean, yes, all new technology comes with a significantly highe...
BYD Zero-Emission London Cabs Coming
25 Oct 2012, 15:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Chinese carmaker BYD has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with British company Green Tomato Cars which will see the two offer the first fleet of all-electric taxis for London. BYD wi...
Audi Reportedly Stopping R8 e-tron Project
25 Oct 2012, 14:00 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / What do you do after you’ve created the fastest production electric vehicle ever to go around the Nurburgring? You sell it to people at a huge price of course. That was the original plan, t...
CARB Approves $1,500 Rebate for Ford C-Max Energi
24 Oct 2012, 12:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The recently-launched Ford C-Max Energi has officially been approved by the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board (CARB), as well as the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program...
Green Sales in the Netherlands Triple in 2012
24 Oct 2012, 12:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Last year, some 1,658 EVs were sold in the Netherlands - a good performance, for such a small country. However, in the same time frame, this year, they have managed to sell three times as many, reac...
Fiat Announces Unveiling of All-Electric 500E at LA Auto Show
24 Oct 2012, 11:52 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Fiat (and Chrysler) have been reticent about launching an electric version of the popular 500, California state laws, rules and regulations have forced them to do so. It does away with any con...
US Ethanol Production Falls to Lowest Point for More than Two Years
24 Oct 2012, 09:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The production of ethanol in the US has reached its lowest point for the last 27 months, mainly due to the shutdown of several plants, including the one at Abengoa, in Madison, Wisconsin, which prod...
Kia and Hyundai to Offer More Turbocharged Engines and Diesels to Lineup
24 Oct 2012, 09:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Hyundai and Kia’s current crop of engines is more than adequate for the kind of cars they are selling, yet they are beginning to lag behind the competition, who use turbocharging throughout th...
GM Announces Magnesium Sheet Metal High-Strength Panels - Lighter than Aluminium
24 Oct 2012, 08:46 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ford recently announced that they are working on bringing carbon fiber to the masses, and they showed off a bonnet for the new Focus, which was entirely made out of the stuff. Now, not to be outdone...
Audi Is the Greenest Premium Carmaker in Germany
22 Oct 2012, 15:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / A recent study that was published by Center of Automotive Management (CAM) tells us that Audi is the greenest premium carmaker in Germany. The research shows that Audi has average CO2 emissions of 1...
LiquidPiston Explains Ultra-Efficient X2 Rotary Engine
22 Oct 2012, 14:40 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The internal combustion engine is already 150 years old, and while we may have improved the concept over the years, it has always been through the addition of something. Air filters, oil filters, tu...
Toyota Prius Is Doing Great in California - 25% of US Sales
22 Oct 2012, 10:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The fact that the Toyota Prius is popular in California is no secret, but it seems that the ever-increasing gas prices are really beginning to affect the way in which the American car buyer thinks. ...
Watch the Kepler Motion Hybrid Supercar in Action
22 Oct 2012, 09:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Since it was first shown some three years ago, the Kepler Motion hybrid supercar has largely been ignored, and we had not heard of it in a while. Well, now, it wants to demonstrated that it is still...
Be Properly Green - Don`t Buy Any New Car!
20 Oct 2012, 10:53 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Extensive marketing campaigns have slowly but surely indoctrinated us to believe that we need to change the car that we drive every three-to-five years, and replace it with something that is new, an...