While Toyota has not announced any revised predictions for 2011 sales, the automaker announced today that it expects to sell more of it’s hybrid Prius cars by the end of the year than it did in 2010, despite setbacks in production after the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in early March. In some parts [...]
There’s only one natural gas car available in the United States and made by a mainstream auto company, and that’s the Honda Civic GX, but despite this, General Motors formed an agreement to work with Westport, a manufacturer of natural gas engines, on the joint development of small compressed natural gas (CNG) engines that could [...]
Ahh, the 4th of July. A day to celebrate Americana, whether it’s with hot dogs and watermelon, apple pie, or Chevrolet. Not just any Chevrolet will do, however – we’re a decade into the twenty-first century so for this Independence Day, we’re celebrating the 2011 Chevy Volt, which represents the perfect blend of environmental consciousness [...]
Most of the time, hybrid vehicles outsell clean diesel cars at a rate of about three to one, but – at least this summer – that may be changing. Why? Because the reduced supply of hybrid cars and the components necessary to produce them, a result of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami in March, has made [...]
While it’s not likely to arrive in the United States any time soon, or even be seen at dealerships in Europe for a good while, Volvo announced earlier this week that production has officially begun on it’s new C30 Electric. Since last Fall, Volvo has been testing its existing fifty C30 Electric cars internally, but [...]