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Tuesday, Aug 4
Consumer Reports say Fusion hybrid is equal to Camry, sportier
The new Fusions are very impressive especially the Hybrid," said David Champion, senior director of CR's Auto Test Center. "The Hybrid successfully blends excellent fuel economy with driving pleasure, something all other hybrids have failed to do."
Thursday, Jul 9
Hyundai: Production Volster to be positioned as Eco-Sport car
Last February, we revealed that a production version of the Hyundai Veloster was in the works and would likely hit the market as a late 2011 or 2012 model. Speaking to Inside Line, Hyundai of America's President and CEO John Krafcik says the Korean automaker plans to position the Veloster a...
Monday, Jul 6
Hyundai gets 1,000 retail orders for its Avante LPI hybrid in South Korea
The Avante uses a 15 kW electric motor mounted between the engine and transmission along with an integrated starter-generator to provide stop-start functionality. Hyundai has no plans to sell this or the Kia Forte hybrid outside of Korea in their current forms. However, Hyundai will lau...
Friday, Jul 3
BMW building more MINI Es for European testing
The popularity of BMW's MINI E test program in the United States has evidently prompted the company to expand production beyond the original 500 cars and add a smaller test fleet in Europe. The original plan, as announced last fall, was for 500 of the battery-powered MINIs to be made availa...
Friday, Jun 19
Hyundai to launch direct injection for 2010 Santa Fe, Sonata
Power from the DI four cylinder gets bumped from 176 to 200 hp, and it will likely get around 5-10 percent better gas mileage. The all-new Sonata will be unveiled at the LA Auto Show in November. Next year, a hybrid model will join the lineup, as well.
Tuesday, Jun 2
Vancouver 2009: learning about the Vancouver Fuel Cell Vehicle Program
Aside from the Focuses, Vancouver has hosted other hydrogen vehicles. Ford's HySeries Edge made its public road debut in Vancouver in 2007 and, for the LA Auto Show that year, Toyota drove its fuel cell Highlander through town. The city is not solely interested in hydrogen vehicles, thoug...
Saturday, May 9
REPORT: Dodge Circuit DOA? Not according to Chrysler
In a report primarily focused on future product plans for British sports car maker Lotus, AutoCar happens to mention at the end the Dodge Circuit program has been killed as a result of the current financial crisis. The Circuit is the electric sports car first unveiled by Chrysler last fall...
Thursday, May 7
BMW X6 and 7 Series hybrids expected this fall
We first saw the 7 Series ActiveHybrid in North America at last year's LA Auto Show. This luxury sedan will be equipped with a lithium ion battery and will use a mild hybrid powertrain co-developed with Mercedes-Benz. A 20 kW electric motor is sandwiched between the car's twin-turbo 4.4L V8 e...
Tuesday, May 5
E85 Revenge Verde: a 110 MPGe super car coming in December
Revenge Designs Inc. is not releasing any pictures of the Revenge Verde, so we'll have to make due with the logo and pics of the converted Mustang taken during the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. Pelmear's HP2g website says that two versions of the Verde, both left-hand and right-hand d...
Sunday, Apr 19
Hydrogen-powered salt flat racer concept fleshed out, complete with goldfish
Remember the 5th Annual LA Auto Show Design Challenge from a few months back? Designers put pen to paper (or, probably more accurately, mouse to mouse pad) in an effort to imagine what eco-friendly racecars would be like in the year 2025. The winning entry was the Mazda KAAN from the Mazda No...
Saturday, Apr 11
New York 2009: Hyundai Nuvis concept hints at next-gen CUVs
Gallery: New York: Hyundai Nuvis Concept Gallery: Hyundai Nuvis Concept Photos Copyright (C)2009 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.Continue reading New York 2009: Hyundai Nuvis concept hints at next-gen CUVs Filed under: Hybrid, Hyundai, New York Auto Show
Monday, Mar 23
Kia introduces production Forte LPI Hybrid in South Korea
Kia has just introduced its first mass production hybrid model based on the new Forte compact sedan in its home market of South Korea. The Forte LPI hybrid uses a smaller 20-hp version of the hybrid system that Hyundai showed at the LA Auto Show last November. That system uses a pancake motor s...
Tuesday, Mar 10
Review: 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid
Gallery: ABG Garage: 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid Photos Copyright (C)2009 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc.Continue reading Review: 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid Filed under: Hybrid, Mercury, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, In The AutoblogGreen Garage
Monday, Mar 2
Geneva 2009: Kia c'eed hybrid and ISG
The second variant is a hybrid model of the c'eed using a system similar to that shown at the LA Auto Show for the next generation Sonata. The main difference is the use of a 15 kW motor rather than the 30 kW unit used for the Sonata, along with a CVT in place of the conventional automatic transmis...
Sunday, Mar 1
Geneva Preview: 37 mpg (U.S.) Lexus RX 450h CUV
When we first met the RX 450h hybrid CUV - excuse me, the "car-based luxury utility vehicle," during the LA Auto Show last November, Lexus wouldn't say what mileage the vehicle would get. Now that we're a bit closer to the release date and the CUV's European debut at the Geneva Motor Show this...
Tuesday, Feb 24
16 VW's Passat Lingyu fuel cell vehicles finally make it to the U.S.
We expected to see the hydrogen fuel cell-powered versions of the Passat Lingyu at the Los Angeles Auto Show last fall. We didn't spot any back then, but these fuel cell VWs should be easier to find in California now that Volkswagen Group of America has announced that 16 of them will be used fo...
Sunday, Feb 22
Hybrid Technologies changes it name to EV Innovations Inc
Hybrid Technologies, whose considerable range of models doesn't actually include any hybrids, have changed their name to the more apt EV Innovations and their stock symbol to EVII. The reason given for the change is that the company is morphing from "a development stage technology comp...
Saturday, Feb 7
Fusion hybrid vs Prius? USA Today picks the Ford
Related: In the Autoblog Garage: 2007 Toyota Prius TouringFirst Drive: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid Source: USA Today]Fusion hybrid vs Prius? USA Today picks the Ford originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Tuesday, Feb 3
Ford picks Johnson Controls Saft for PHEV batteries, adds 7 utility partners to test program
Related: ABG First Impression: Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid w/VideoAutoblogGreen Drives the HySeries Ford Edge and fuel cell ExplorerFord's Nancy Gioia discusses hybrids and plug-ins Gallery: ABG First Drive: Ford Escape PHEV Source: Ford]
Tuesday, Jan 20
Detroit 2009: College for Creative Studies students reimagine the car
Vehicle models designed by students at the College For Creative Studies are on display at Cobo Hall as part of the Detroit Auto Show this year. Fanciful and outlandish, these models give an idea of what the automobile of the future could be like. That vehicle above, for example, is a redesign...
Friday, Jan 16
Volkswagen will bring the Polo to America
With American consumers showing an increasing taste for small cars like the MINI, Honda Fit and others, Volkswagen apparently wants to return to its roots. VW development chief Ulrich Hackenberg confirmed during the Detroit Auto Show that the next-generation Polo will be sent to the U.S....
Wednesday, Jan 7
Lexus refines hybrid drivetrain for RX450h, 28 mpg city/27 highway
A few months back at the LA Auto Show, where Lexus introduced the world to its latest RX450h hybrid crossover, the automaker was not yet ready to reveal its price or fuel mileage ratings. Things are still a bit hazy on the pricing front, but we do have some preliminary mileage data to share, al...
Saturday, Dec 27
Green Car Journal picks 5 nominees for Green Car Vision award
Having honored the VW Jetta TDI as the Green Car of the Year at last month's LA Auto Show, the editors at Green Car Journal are not done with awards just yet. Next up they will be selecting a winner for the Green Car Vision award. The nominees go beyond ordinary concepts and are either current low...
Friday, Dec 19
Spyshots: Chevy Beat spotted on the wild!
The Chevy Beat was voted the favorite of the trio of subcompacts that GM introduced at the 2007 LA Auto Show. Although it's set to start production next year in South Korea, we've gotten a sneak preview courtesy of Autoblog reader Kyle Swift, who sent a few cellphone pics he took of a camo'd Be...
Thursday, Dec 18
Rendered Speculation: 2010 Hyundai Sonata
Filed under: Hybrid, Hyundai, LightweightLast month at the LA Auto Show, Hyundai America CEO John Krafcik told us that the 2010 Hyundai Sonata will debut next November in LA with the hybrid version coming the following year. Weight reduction will be a major part of the new Sonata program. A...
Tuesday, Nov 25
Honda may add production of the Fit in US factory
Ever since its debut in the US market two years ago, the Honda Fit has proved enormously popular and sales have been limited by supply from the Japanese factory that produces the Fit. With the continuing decline in sales of the Pilot and Odyssey, Honda now has some extra capacity in North Ame...
ABG chats with SmartUSA president David Schembri about EVs, diesel, micro-hybrids and more
One of the newest cars to drop into the US market is the Smart ForTwo. A decade after its European debut, the two-seat city car finally arrived stateside after several abortive attempts by both its parent company Daimler and independent distributors. This time around Daimler worked with a...
Monday, Nov 24
AutoblogGreen visits our founder to try out his Tesla Roadster [w/VIDEO]
Gallery: Jason Calacanis' Tesla Roadster Gallery: Trying out Jason's Tesla Roadster Photos copyright (C)2008 Drew Phillips, Sam Abuelsamid, Sebastian Blanco / Weblogs, Inc. Continue reading AutoblogGreen visits our founder to try out his Tesla Roadster [w/VIDEO]
New Hyundai America CEO discusses new hybrid system
Last week at the LA Auto Show, Hyundai showed off its first hybrid system for the US market that will debut in the next generation Sonata. Following the press conference, Green Fuels Forecast sat down with John Krafcik, then VP Product development (as of today, he's Acting CEO of Hyundai Am...
VW Touareg TDI Trophy Truck finishes Baja in 13th place
We took a pretty in-depth look at the first-ever turbocharged oil-burning machine to compete in the Trophy Truck class of the famed Baja 1000 race while we were at the LA Auto Show. The machine itself was a Touareg in name only and is an extremely impressive piece of kit in person. Still, while...
ABG Quick Drive: Battery-powered MINI-E w/VIDEO
For three days before and during the media previews for the Los Angeles Auto Show last week, BMW had about a dozen electric MINIs available for evaluation drives. We finally got our crack at one Thursday morning at the LA convention center. The 6.5 mile loop that BMW laid out was both a terrible...
Sunday, Nov 23
SoCal Edison gets its Mitsubishi i MiEV
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, LA Auto Show, USARight on schedule, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E) have received all-electric Mitsubishi i MiEVs to begin their testing programs with. Although the cars displayed on the LA Auto Show floo...
Friday, Nov 21
Lotus Engineering director talks about Dodge EV
While strolling around one of the smaller exhibit halls at the Los Angeles Auto Show I ran into an old acquaintance I hadn't seen in about 15 years. I met Roger Becker early in my engineering career when I was working on the ABS system for the ill-fated Lotus Elan. Roger is the director of vehicl...
Thursday, Nov 20
LA 2008: Kia's offers ex-Scion buyers a Soulful alternative
Kia is stretching a bit with its model designations in an attempt to appeal to the young audience they are targeting with the Soul. Let's see, there is the base model, the Soul+, the Soul! (exclaim) and the Soul sport. Standard is a 120 (or so) horsepower 1.6L four cylinder and a 5-speed manual t...
LA 2008: Volkswagen Touareg V6 TDI, 25 mpg highway
Volkswagen is showing off the new Touareg V6 TDI at the LA Auto Show before it goes on sale in around March of 2009. The V6 TDI replaces the old V10 TDI in the lineup and uses the same 3.0L V6 diesel that's going into the Audi Q7 TDI. At 221 hp and 407 lb-ft of torque, it should offer plenty of performan...
LA 2008: Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI
Filed under: Diesel, Volkswagen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, LA Auto Show Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Green Car of the Year 8:45 am - So, the choices for the 2009 Green Car of the Year are: Continue reading LA 2008: Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI
Wednesday, Nov 19
LA 2008: Honda pulls a surprise with FC Sport concept
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Tuesday, Nov 18
LA 2008: Nissan announces electric car partnership with Oregon
Toyota recently announced a partnership with the city of Portland to test old RAV4 EVs there. We also got a tip from AutoblogGreen reader Littlejohn this morning that said: "Portland's mayor-elect Sam Adams told our class tonight that we have been selected as a city for testing of 26 minut...
