If you’re considering a new car before the year’s out, a hybrid might be your best bet, or at the very least you should be looking at cars that rate highly in terms of fuel efficiency. Why? Because experts are predicting that the price of gasoline might hit $3.00 by January. Just this past Monday [...]
Yesterday morning, General Motors, the company that had picked up the uncomfortable moniker “Government Motors” due to the high levels of government bailout money it received, returned to the New York Stock Exchange for the first time since last year’s emergence from bankruptcy protection. As a result, the stake that American taxpayers have in the [...]
The HybridCars Blog is reporting this week on this year’s World Energy Outlook, recently released by the International Energy Agency (IEA). For the first time, the IEA is forecasting not the coming of “peak oil,” but stating that the global crude oil production peak that we all thought was looming over us actually arrived four [...]
Automotive News reported yesterday that Subaru, the only car brand to show increased American sales over the last three years, has revealed its new global brand slogan: “Confidence in Motion.” The slogan will go into use after Subaru debuts a new concept car which embodies the new theme at this month’s Los Angeles Auto Show, [...]
News out of Tokyo today is that Nissan has ended the pre-order window for it’s new Nissan Leaf electric car, having reached their 20,000 order target three months before the car’s official launch this December. According to a representative of Nissan, there will be no new orders taken until after the first of the year. [...]