Filed under: Tesla Motors, USA
Tesla Motors has hired Deepak Ahuja away from the Ford Motor Company to serve as its new Chief Financial Officer. This announcement comes right after the automaker’s hiring of Franz von Holzhausen from Mazda to serve as its Design Director. Seems like Tesla is serious about bringing in talent from Detroit… »
Filed under: Biodiesel, Diesel, Vegetable Oil
Although we haven’t spoken too much about tractors, I think it’s good to know that green technologies are improving these vehicles. Take this example, German tractor manufacturer Fendt has announced that its new lineup of Vario tractors which reach the Com III emission standards which come in effect next year…. »
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, South/Latin America
Endesa, a Spanish-based (Italian-owned) utility company will be soon distributing to its customers in Santiago Chile an EV car. The model, the Reva EV (which we tried in Barcelona last year) hasn’t been much of a big seller in most of Europe (40 units in Spain) so the distribution via the… »
galleryPost(’helicronrun’, 6, ‘1932 Helicron Providing Cool Breeze For The Masses’); We just had to throw the 1932 Helicron in at the end of the day for good measure, moment of zen-style. This thing is loud, it’s incredibly dangerous, it’s crude, and we love it. Leave it up to the French to design a car… »
When we think of the Meadow Brook Concours D’Elegance, motorcycles don’t normally come to the front of the mind — it’s all about old and exotic automobiles. This year Meadow Brook featured a selection of classic motorbikes featuring sidecars. Great fun was had trying to figure out the mechanism details: Every motorcycle seemed to have… »
While walking the grounds of the 2008 Meadow Brook Concours D’Elegance, you’d have been excused if you mistook this next vehicle as nothing more than a shadow, or perhaps a garbage bag that had gotten away. What we have here is the creation of Swiss tinkerer Rudy Kurth, a machine dubbed the Cat III. Hand-built… »
Comedy most often relies on familiarity or absurdity. This is why jokes about husband and wife are so popular; marriage is at the same time both familiar and a little absurd. Some of our greatest comedic duos have been married couples: Burns and Allen, Luci and Desi, and Roseanne and Tom Arnold. Henny Youngman, King… »
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mazda, Tesla Motors, USA
Click above for more shots of the Mazda Furai concept
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/autos/Breaking_Franz_von_Holzhausen_to_Tesla_Motors_as_design_dir’; We’ve received confirmation from both Darryl Siry and Mike Bumbeck at Tesla Motors that Franz von Holzhausen, the designer who since February of 2005 oversaw the design and development of all concept and… »
Rumor has it that the Decepticon bad boy, Megatron, may be making a return to the screen for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. This time, Megatron is said to be in the form of a military tank, but that’s caused some people to wonder if that means the Autobots have resurrected him to help them… »
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Legislation and Policy, Japan
One of France’s most prestigious newspapers, Le Monde, has published a very interesting article about the real impact and the future of green cars regarding Japanese automakers. Basically, the idea is that automakers are asking (and getting) help to develop green technologies. It quotes Carlos Ghosn’s concerns about… »