It’s been three years since whispers of a hybrid version of the Honda Fit (marketed as the Honda Jazz in Europe) first began stirring the imaginations of car aficionados, and now it’s finally happening: next month, and the Paris Motor Show, the 2011 Honda Fit Hybrid will make it’s debut, and, according to Hybrid Cars, [...]
Korean automaker Kia has unveiled a new concept car, destined to debut at the Paris Auto Show on September 30th.
The car, known as the Kia Pop is a three-seat electric “city car” that is 3,000 mm long, equal in length to the four-seat Toyota iQ minicar, and 300 mm longer than Smart’s two-seat ForTwo. [...]
According to HybridCars.com, the average garbage truck pulls up, stops, idles, loads and moves on between 300 and 1,200 times per day. Most of these trucks are fueled by diesel, and on a good day, they’ll manage about 4 or 5 mpg. We won’t even talk about the number of pollutants those trucks spew forth. [...]
Car and Driver reported today on their blog that the Porsche 918 Spyder, the concept car originally revealed the night before the start of the 2010 Geneva auto show, last March, will go into “limited series production.
This car is a performance hybrid with four different driving modes, and a KERS-type overboost feature similar to [...]
Legislation approved by a Senate committee earlier today could put millions of electric-powered cars and trucks on the road, significantly reducing the United States’ dependence on foreign oil, as well as dramatically lowering carbon emissions.
The legislation, which was passed by a 19-4 vote, was one of several bills cleared by the Senate Energy [...]
