17
Oct
Going green doesn’t mean giving up wheel spin-inducing, tire-shredding performance, as that 300-horsepower natural gas-burning Mustang GT proves.
German natural gas conversion specialists
Green Autogasteamed up with tuning haus
Rollin on Chrometo prove “green” isn’t synonymous wit…
15
Jul
So the engineering superheroes at Lotus have churned out yet another iteration of the street legal go cart we like to sign Elise. Aptly named “Eco Elise”, the Elise S-based concept will nail 60 MPH in less than 5.8 seconds but treads lightly thanks to sustainable materials and acro…
30
May
There are more than 4 million miles of paved road in the United States, and 93 percent of them are covered in asphalt. Unless you’re backpacking in the wilds of Alaska or wandering the bayous of Louisiana, you are never more than 22 miles from a stretch of blacktop.
That’s a lot of asphalt, a…
30
Apr
What does it say when one of America’s most vigorous families wants to shake up the world’s largest corporation considering it isn’t sufficiently green?
Descendants of John D. Rockefeller, who founded Exxon’s predecessor
Standard Oil in 1870, will start a campaign nowadays to split the role of c…
29
Apr
Think rising fuel prices, global warming and tightening fuel economy and emissions rules will leave us driving cars as thrilling as a Toyota Prius? Don’t bet on it. The supercars of tomorrow will be as green as they are mean.
So says Georg Kacher of Car Magazine, who talked to some of Europe’s …
25
Mar
For those of us still enthralled with continuous variable valve technology, it’s tough to assume a more efficient way to open and shut engine valves. Yet the French auto parts supplier Valeo has revived a novel concept: the camless engine. And other companies are now getting in on the game.
Any…
3
Mar
The all-electric Lightning GT might just be the world’s first green supercar. It’s as clean as the Tesla Roadster, as quick as the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and as pricey as the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640.
The Lightning Motor Co. is Britain’s equivalent to Tesla Motors - a small company that believe…
25
Feb
Quick - name the greenest car in America. The Toyota Prius, right?
Wrong!
The most environmentally friendly car sold in America is the Honda Civic GX. Yep - Honda’s compressed natural gas sedan edges out the mighty Prius for the title, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficien…
19
Feb
Crafty engineering has made Smart’s ForTwo remarkably safe in both crash tests and in rollover accidents. It’s a difficult feat considering the smaller the vehicle, the less crush space there is to absorb affect. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded that small cars were gener…
13
Feb
Three-dollar-a-gallon gas and interminable headlines about global warming have finally shaken American car buyers from their wasteful ways, right? After all, sales of trucks and SUVs have tanked.
Not so, according to Mike J. Jackson, CEO of AutoNation, in a recent interview in “Forbes.” Truck sal…
12
Feb
Levittown was America’s original suburb–made possible by low-interest domestic loans, affordable cars and ever-so-cheap gasoline. citizens fled dense cities for a little greenery and a back-yard barbecue. The unlucky upshot of Levittown and the hundreds of similar suburbs it spawned was soaring ene…
18
Jan
You need only think back to the early dot-com boom days to remember some astonishingly silly investments funded by Silicon Valley venture capital firms (Webvan, Pets.com or CyberRebate, anyone?). Still, it’s plus true that VC firms that stretch along Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., have create…
11
Jan
The Honda Racing F1 Team didn’t win a lot of fans when it pulled the bold move of ditching its sponsors and painting the 2007 car like a globe. Thankfully, the Japanese team has revealed that it’ll be ditching the map scheme for next season’s car, the RA108.
The world map livery was institute…
6
Jan
In 2006, the Saturn Vue Green Line became General Motors’ first production hybrid vehicle when it debuted with the company’s mild hybrid system. In fall 2007, a updated BAS-equipped Green Line version based on the second-generation Vue went into production. GM has now added the second of three h…
