Ford Motor Company and SunPower are offering a rooftop solar system option which will be sold alongside the upcoming Ford Focus EV. The “Drive Green for Life” program, as it’s being called, involves mounting solar panels on a customer’s home.
The highly anticipated Honda Fit EV Concept All Electric Car offically unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show today.
The EV model is a brother to the gas sipping standard Honda Fit but with an “electric motor similar to that it developed for the Clarity fuel cell vehicle and a lithium-ion battery pack”
Quick Facts about the [...]
The Nissan Leaf is a zero emssion, plug-in electric card. It tops the Chevy Volt stagger fuel efficiency with whopping 367 MPG. Business week reports that the Leaf [will] run a 100 miles on a single charge [and] will cost no more to buy and run than a traditional gasoline-powered car. Charging time is [...]
If the new Chevy Volt actually hits the market next year, there will finally be a car that addresses the majority of driving styles, if not the majority of pocketbooks. With their announcement that the Volt will travel about 40 miles on a charge, many drivers will not have to buy gasoline for months at [...]
Toyota has been working on the Highlander FCV, and they claim that the latest version of the hydrogen-powered SUV (the FCV-adv) traveled for 431 miles on just one tank of compressed hydrogen.
Impressive indeed. But as Christopher DeMorro points out in an article on Gas2.org, the claim is rather misleading. Toyota merely drove 331.5 miles from [...]
Its been a while since any reports of the google streetview team visiting portland, but they are cetainly making their way around the world. The google team has ditched their car for a more ecco friendly tricylce and are now visiting France.
"The riders, wearing Google tee-shirts and white helmets, are visiting well-known sites such as [...]
Not even the most optimistic greens could have predicted that the federal government's cash-for-clunkers program would work this well — at last count more than 240,000 Americans have traded in their clunkers for more fuel efficient cars, and the program has already burned through its first $1 billion of funding.
Have you traded in a clunker? [...]
UPS is about to field-test "hydraulic hybrid" delivery trucks, developed with the help of the EPA. They estimate that "savings on fuel and maintenance over the life of the truck could be as much as $50,000, while reduction in carbon dioxide emissions would be 30% or more."
High Hopes for a New Type of Hybrid Vehicle
Toyota FT-EV unveiled a electric car for under $20,000 that can be driven up to 80km without using a drop of petrol
Ford Fusion Tops Toyota Camry, Honda Accord Again With Best-in-Class 34 MPG 4-Cylinder Model
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