Archive for July 24th, 2008

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Manufacturing/Plants, Legislation and Policy, Opel, UK
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Opel Flextreme
Despite Carl-Peter Forster’s recent assertion that Euro Volts would be built in America and shipped overseas, GM’s European leader is now claiming that Europe may get its own plant. This change of heart could have something to do… »

Filed under: Hybrid, Honda

Over at Honda’s web-site the company has launched a page dedicated to its upcoming dedicated hybrid model. The gas electric hatchback will be going on sale early next year and we recently saw our first spy pics of the new car. In the text on the micro-site it appears that Honda will… »

Seems the boss-man has been moonlighting again over at Popular Mechanics, this time advising Detroit about which of its dead nameplates should remain six feet under. We won’t give away Ray’s picks; you’ll have to head over to PopMech for those, but we’ve tossed our own version together after the jump.
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Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota

Toyota may have lead the way to mass-market hybrid vehicles with its Prius, but that institutional knowledge is apparently not helping it on the Formula One circuit. While Toyota reportedly spends more money on its F1 program than any other team (and perhaps several small countries) it has yet to win a… »

Recently, it’s been fairly well reported that both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day: February 12, 1809. It isn’t that surprising that this coincidence (and that’s all it really is) has captured so much interest, given that these two men were giants of the 19th century and managed to live… »

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that’s the coolest… and the most hellish! Yesterday, we saw the triple-’49-Mercury deal obliterate the six-four by what may be the biggest-ever margin in Choose Your Eternity Poll history: 80-20 for the Mercuries in the Low And Slow Edition poll. Today… »

The entire run of Audi R8s for 2009 has sold out. There’s now an 18-month waiting list for Audi’s hand-built supercar. This news comes just as we were about to place our order, meaning it’ll be even longer before Wert gets to drive get driven around in one. It also comes despite a price hike… »

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Aptera, USA
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Way back in September of 2006, Google.org, the philanthropic part of the Internet giant, announced that it would be investing in PHEVs. The following year, Google followed that bit of news up by launching its RechargeIT initiative which would… »

GM is partnering with the US Postal Service to place its fuel cell-powered Chevy Equinox into service in Irvine, California and other yet-to-be-identified locations. The idea is to put the fuel cell SUVs into heavy-use situations to help work out the development kinks. Not only that, but they’ll be able to test the operation of… »

If you’re squinting at a poorly-rendered map on your Blackberry, turns out you’re not alone. According to an industry report released today, up to 8% of Americans are now downloading driving directions and online maps via mobile devices, which equates to a whopping 82% increase over last year. Ironic that mobile map use is increasing… »