The U.K. National Grid -- the company responsible for maintaining the entire U.K. high-voltage electrical grid -- has just taken delivery of four 2011 Nissan Leafs which will help it complete a massive eight-year project to construct new power-conduit tunnels throughout he city of London. The project -- one of the largest tunnel building projects...
With Fisker just starting to deliver its first Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedans--no, still not a single road test by any journalist--attention now turns toward the Frankfurt Motor Show. Next week, the company will pull the covers off a concept for what it says will be the next model in the Fisker Karma lineup, a car it had discussed as long ago...
Volvo isn’t the largest automaker in the world -- but it is one of the safest thanks to a long-standing passion about passenger and pedestrian safety dating back to when the company was founed nearly 85 years ago. But recently Volvo has developed a new passion to put alongside its aim to have no-one die as a result of a Volvo accident by the...
Bringing a new car to market costs a lot of money -- around $1-2 billion per platform on a new volume vehicle. As any auto industry insider will tell you, it isn’t just money either -- it’s about years of planning, development and testing before a car is ready to make the transition from computer renderings to the dealer’s lot...
Late last week Audi released some teaser sketches of its A2 concept car due at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, now less than a week away. Due to be positioned between the A1 minicar and upcoming Audi A3 Sedan compact car, the new A2 is spiritual successor to the original A2, an aluminum-bodied, ultra-efficient subcompact that went on sale in Europe...
The new 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid achieves EPA gas mileage ratings of up to 43 mpg city, 39 highway—which, if you need to haul a full family of five or even four adults, makes it possibly the greenest roomy sedan pick on the market. For that reason, the 2012 Toyota Camry lineup achieves an excellent 9 out of 10 rating here at GreenCarReports...
We’re just back from vacation in the U.K., where we witnessed third-hand--through the eyes of the British media--the carnage and horrors that were about to befall the east coast of the United States. In other words, we got to watch Hurricane Irene rip its way through North Carolina just before we jumped on an airplane headed home to New...
Imagine the scenario: You’re heading to a meeting and leave your shiny 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car plugged in at the local charging station, confident that it will have enough charge to get you back home when you return in a few hours. Then you return to find another electric car owner has unplugged your car to charge their own vehicle...
For as long as electric cars have been on the roads of the world, people have needed to find a place to plug in. So what happens when a company obtains and publishes details of several hundred addresses and contact details for a privately-run and moderated peer-to-peer charging network? That’s exactly what has happened in the U.K., when...
The U.K. National Grid -- the company responsible for maintaining the entire U.K. high-voltage electrical grid -- has just taken delivery of four 2011 Nissan Leafs which will help it complete a massive eight-year project to construct new power-conduit tunnels throughout he city of London. The project -- one of the largest tunnel building projects...
With Fisker just starting to deliver its first Karma plug-in hybrid sports sedans--no, still not a single road test by any journalist--attention now turns toward the Frankfurt Motor Show. Next week, the company will pull the covers off a concept for what it says will be the next model in the Fisker Karma lineup, a car it had discussed as long ago...
Volvo isn’t the largest automaker in the world -- but it is one of the safest thanks to a long-standing passion about passenger and pedestrian safety dating back to when the company was founed nearly 85 years ago. But recently Volvo has developed a new passion to put alongside its aim to have no-one die as a result of a Volvo accident by the...
Bringing a new car to market costs a lot of money -- around $1-2 billion per platform on a new volume vehicle. As any auto industry insider will tell you, it isn’t just money either -- it’s about years of planning, development and testing before a car is ready to make the transition from computer renderings to the dealer’s lot...
Late last week Audi released some teaser sketches of its A2 concept car due at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, now less than a week away. Due to be positioned between the A1 minicar and upcoming Audi A3 Sedan compact car, the new A2 is spiritual successor to the original A2, an aluminum-bodied, ultra-efficient subcompact that went on sale in Europe...
The new 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid achieves EPA gas mileage ratings of up to 43 mpg city, 39 highway—which, if you need to haul a full family of five or even four adults, makes it possibly the greenest roomy sedan pick on the market. For that reason, the 2012 Toyota Camry lineup achieves an excellent 9 out of 10 rating here at GreenCarReports...
We’re just back from vacation in the U.K., where we witnessed third-hand--through the eyes of the British media--the carnage and horrors that were about to befall the east coast of the United States. In other words, we got to watch Hurricane Irene rip its way through North Carolina just before we jumped on an airplane headed home to New...
Imagine the scenario: You’re heading to a meeting and leave your shiny 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car plugged in at the local charging station, confident that it will have enough charge to get you back home when you return in a few hours. Then you return to find another electric car owner has unplugged your car to charge their own vehicle...
For as long as electric cars have been on the roads of the world, people have needed to find a place to plug in. So what happens when a company obtains and publishes details of several hundred addresses and contact details for a privately-run and moderated peer-to-peer charging network? That’s exactly what has happened in the U.K., when...
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