Las Vegas is better known for its excess than its frugality, but city bosses are turning that image around by trialling a fleet of electric cars, the first of which is GM's range-extended electric vehicle, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. The trial will make the city the only government agency in the state to test electric vehicles. So far the Volt is...
On August 27th, Nissan North America opened up online reservations for the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Two hours later, Nissan had received more reservations than it had cars to sell, prompting some news outlets to report that the car was sold out. Just 40 cars While we’re happy to see that the 2011 Nissan Leaf is just as popular in Canada with early...
German electronics giant Siemens is no stranger to electric motors or electric cars -- and now it has announced a formal partnership with the Volvo Car Corporation to work on a new generation of electric car technology. Confirmed at a joint press conference held in Munich, Germany, the two companies outlined their plans for the partnership...
If any brand has emerged from the bottom of the market into awareness lately, it's Kia. The Korean brand is halfway through introducing an entirely refreshed line of smart, stylish, and inexpensive vehicles that are getting noticed--and selling well. The 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid we recently road-tested is a good example; few buyers are even aware...
Yesterday we brought you news that a team from Toyota Motorsport had successfully smashed the electric car lap record at the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife race track in Germany. Beating the previous record of 9 minutes and 1.3 seconds set by Peugeot's EX1 electric racing car prototype in April, the Toyota PV001 EV set a lap time of 7...
Sport-utility vehicles aren't known for their gas mileage, but at least one crossover aims to change that perception, with direct injection, turbocharging, slick tires and an intriguing approach to winning over converts. The 2012 Ford Edge joins the Explorer in offering Ford's EcoBoost four-cylinder engine, and in the Edge, the combination of the...
Today Ford unveiled the Evos Concept Car that will be at the center of its display at next month's 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. The bright-red concept is a sports coupe that the company says shows off an evolution of its global "kinetic design" language. It will also preview research into new ways for a driver to interact with his "personal cloud of...
For some time automakers have been under increasing pressure from the government to make their cars as green as fuel efficient as possible in order to improve air quality, reduce pollution and diminish our dependence on fossil fuels. But makers of medium and heavy duty vehicles -- like semis, buses and 3/4 ton pickup trucks -- haven’t been...
To increase gas mileage, carmakers can use smaller engines that produce the same power from less fuel. But they can also work to recapture part of the 70 percent of fuel's energy content that internal combustion engines waste in producing heat, noise, and momentum that has to be halted via braking. Hybrid-electric systems that use regenerative...
The 2012 Ford Explorer isn't the typical green car. A seven-seat crossover vehicle, the Explorer gets an intriguing new option this year in the form of a turbo four-cylinder drivetrain, rated at up to 28 mpg highway--and that's why it earns our attention, and a rating of 7 here at GreenCarReports. The standard-issue drivetrain in the 2012 Ford...
Las Vegas is better known for its excess than its frugality, but city bosses are turning that image around by trialling a fleet of electric cars, the first of which is GM's range-extended electric vehicle, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. The trial will make the city the only government agency in the state to test electric vehicles. So far the Volt is...
On August 27th, Nissan North America opened up online reservations for the 2011 Nissan Leaf. Two hours later, Nissan had received more reservations than it had cars to sell, prompting some news outlets to report that the car was sold out. Just 40 cars While we’re happy to see that the 2011 Nissan Leaf is just as popular in Canada with early...
German electronics giant Siemens is no stranger to electric motors or electric cars -- and now it has announced a formal partnership with the Volvo Car Corporation to work on a new generation of electric car technology. Confirmed at a joint press conference held in Munich, Germany, the two companies outlined their plans for the partnership...
If any brand has emerged from the bottom of the market into awareness lately, it's Kia. The Korean brand is halfway through introducing an entirely refreshed line of smart, stylish, and inexpensive vehicles that are getting noticed--and selling well. The 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid we recently road-tested is a good example; few buyers are even aware...
Sport-utility vehicles aren't known for their gas mileage, but at least one crossover aims to change that perception, with direct injection, turbocharging, slick tires and an intriguing approach to winning over converts. The 2012 Ford Edge joins the Explorer in offering Ford's EcoBoost four-cylinder engine, and in the Edge, the combination of the...
Today Ford unveiled the Evos Concept Car that will be at the center of its display at next month's 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. The bright-red concept is a sports coupe that the company says shows off an evolution of its global "kinetic design" language. It will also preview research into new ways for a driver to interact with his "personal cloud of...
For some time automakers have been under increasing pressure from the government to make their cars as green as fuel efficient as possible in order to improve air quality, reduce pollution and diminish our dependence on fossil fuels. But makers of medium and heavy duty vehicles -- like semis, buses and 3/4 ton pickup trucks -- haven’t been...
To increase gas mileage, carmakers can use smaller engines that produce the same power from less fuel. But they can also work to recapture part of the 70 percent of fuel's energy content that internal combustion engines waste in producing heat, noise, and momentum that has to be halted via braking. Hybrid-electric systems that use regenerative...
The 2012 Ford Explorer isn't the typical green car. A seven-seat crossover vehicle, the Explorer gets an intriguing new option this year in the form of a turbo four-cylinder drivetrain, rated at up to 28 mpg highway--and that's why it earns our attention, and a rating of 7 here at GreenCarReports. The standard-issue drivetrain in the 2012 Ford...
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