Toyota's Hybrid Cars Attacked By New Pollution Figures: Scoring Higher Than Average
The Toyota Prius has been one of the most driven cars by Hollywood movie stars and green lovers. Even I would love to drive one, and I'm not much of star myself. The advertisements of low CO2 emissions and low fuel consumption are tempting enough to take you to the showroom and buy one.
Chevy Volt's Drivetrain: A Big Lie From GM, Or A Last-Second Desperate Measure?
Politicians lie, husbands lie, wives lie, even your local grocer lies about something, sometimes, to get his merchandise sold. If everybody lies, why shouldn't GM? The fact is, if you haven't already heard, that GM promised for years that they'll have an electric car coming with the Chevy Volt.
Rumour Saying Toyota Collaborates With Daimler for Exporting Hybrid Tech to Mercedes
The German automaker had also signed contracts with Renault-Nissan and BMW, joining efforts to bring hybrid cars to their maximum efficiency. The collaboration would also cover fuel cell vehicles and other next-generation concepts.
Some Diesels Cleaner Than Electric Cars, Swiss Researchers Say
European cars often get a fuel economy of about 42 mpg, with some newer models even getting 60 mpg or more. The technology adopted for electric cars, on the other hand, uses mainly lithium ion batteries, made of metals extracted from mountains by using complex chemical processes that not only generate CO2, but also pollute the environment and help to deforestation.
9 Electric Car Battery Factories Opened in Michigan: Experts Say Too Many
Michigan, once a prosperous area for the auto industry, saw a decline once the economy collapsed. Now, because of government incentives through grants under the Recovery Act, nine electric car battery factories have reborn there, creating new jobs and putting things on track again.
Better Place: Electric Car Battery Swapping Service Envisioning Worldwide Expansion
You may have probably heard of Project Better Place before - it's the business led by Shai Agassi that imposes itself a truly hard to get goal: to make a network of battery swapping and charging stations for the not-so-distant electric cars.
Agreement Between Toyota and Tesla Motors to Materialize With 2 Prototypes by End of...
Often seen as having the closest resemblance with the Iron Man, Elon Musk has brought Paypal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity to their best, and now, in the middle of a financial crisis, is trying to make his deal with Toyota work, and have the first electric car designed by both on the market as soon as possible.
Honda Planning to Market Solar Powered Home-Based Hydrogen Refueler Starting 2015
Having your hydrogen fuel cell car powered by some solar panels in your own backyard looks like a dream not able to come true in a lifetime for some. For others, this is already a reality and a long-term plan. Honda, GM, Toyota, Mercedes and several other car manufacturers, joined by fuel providers including Shell, look at home-based refueling stations quite seriously and plan to have the first ones implemented in as little as five years.
Toshiba's SCiB Ultra-Fast Charging Battery Selected to Be Used By Multiple Automakers
It looks natural for that to happen, since names like Sanyo and Panasonic had already been added as battery manufacturers on lists of Suzuki Motors and Toyota, respectively.
Tesla Motors + Toyota: Electric Car Joint Venture or Fusion Plan?
Arnold Schwarzenegger had first leaked this news while in a visit to Google's HQ in Mountain View, and stirred powerful reactions in the media and in Downey City, to whom Tesla Motors promised that they will build a car factory there.
