Last week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show we saw lots of new plug-in hybrid and purely electric concept cars from many different automakers. But mysteriously bucking the trend with not a single electric concept was South Korean auto group Hyundai Kia, choosing instead to represent electric drivetrain technology with two existing production cars --...
Ford is using the Frankfurt Auto Show to familiarize consumers with its latest EcoBoost engine offering. The 1.0-liter, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine will debut in European Focus, B-Max, C-Max and other compact and subcompact segment vehicles in April of 2012. While no fuel economy numbers have been published yet, the engine is said to produce a...
This year hasn’t been easy for Chinese automaker BYD, thanks to abysmal performance on the Chinese stock-market, accusations of copyright infringement and a launch schedule that it just can’t seem to keep to. But over the summer the automaker has been busy, trying to turn its reputation around and updating improving some of its...
Although we’ve been covering electric and fuel-efficient green vehicles here at Green Car Reports for a long time now, a lot of first-time readers are completely new to the idea of buying an electric car. Exploring electric cars for the first time, these readers are looking for a simple primer to the world of plug-in vehicles before they...
Though about half the new cars sold in Europe are diesels, the technology has never had much traction in the United States, partly because much stricter U.S. clean air regulations made it virtually untenable. But several years ago Daimler and Volkswagen introduced cars powered by clean diesel technology capable of meeting U.S. requirements. Audi...
Last week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show we saw lots of new plug-in hybrid and purely electric concept cars from many different automakers. But mysteriously bucking the trend with not a single electric concept was South Korean auto group Hyundai Kia, choosing instead to represent electric drivetrain technology with two existing production cars --...
Ford is using the Frankfurt Auto Show to familiarize consumers with its latest EcoBoost engine offering. The 1.0-liter, three-cylinder EcoBoost engine will debut in European Focus, B-Max, C-Max and other compact and subcompact segment vehicles in April of 2012. While no fuel economy numbers have been published yet, the engine is said to produce a...
This year hasn’t been easy for Chinese automaker BYD, thanks to abysmal performance on the Chinese stock-market, accusations of copyright infringement and a launch schedule that it just can’t seem to keep to. But over the summer the automaker has been busy, trying to turn its reputation around and updating improving some of its...
Although we’ve been covering electric and fuel-efficient green vehicles here at Green Car Reports for a long time now, a lot of first-time readers are completely new to the idea of buying an electric car. Exploring electric cars for the first time, these readers are looking for a simple primer to the world of plug-in vehicles before they...
Though about half the new cars sold in Europe are diesels, the technology has never had much traction in the United States, partly because much stricter U.S. clean air regulations made it virtually untenable. But several years ago Daimler and Volkswagen introduced cars powered by clean diesel technology capable of meeting U.S. requirements. Audi...
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