Obama’s patsy?
President Obama has axed his plan for a car czar in favor of a presidential task force led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a move sure to bristle many on Wall Street.
Last week Geithner was hammered by Wall Street, and the stock market, for the lack of details on how the Treasury Department is [...] [...]
Monthly goals met in first week
The new Honda Insight hybrid has only been on sale for little more than a week, yet Honda’s newest hybrid has already achieved its monthly sales goal of 5,000 cars for the Japanese market.
The Insight hybrid goes on sale in April for the US market. Currently, it’s price in Japan [...] [...]
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, UK
Click above for high-resolution gallery of the Škoda Superb GreenLine
Last year at the Geneva Motor Show, Skoda announced that it would offer a GreenLine version of its Superb sedan and that fuel-saving model is finally ready to show up in dealerships in the U.K. Like the Passat BlueMotion on which the [...] [...]
Escalade hybrid versus the mini Cooper?
Have you seen the latest Cadillac Escalade hybrid commercial? The one comparing the Escalade hybrid to the Mini Cooper in city fuel economy?
I hate to say it, but that was mine.
At the LA Auto Show in 2007, I made the same comparison, except it was the Chevy Tahoe hybrid, which [...] [...]
Hybrids, small cars or EVs?
OK, before I get started, I have to give Ford a few props. Ford has been selling about 25,000 hybrid cars per year for many years now. Soon, it will lift that production to about 50,000 hybrids per year.
Of course, that’s nothing compared to Toyota’s hybrid vehicle sales, and Ford has [...] [...]
How much will it take to save GM?
GM is preparing to submit its viability plan, but it won’t include the needed concessions from the UAW and bondholders, although those concessions are not absolutely required right now. Nonetheless, GM is already acknowledging that it will need more money.
Originally, GM had requested billion when it first [...] [...]
Do you really need it?
A number of my neighbors drive large SUVs. None of them are married or have kids. Most of them are single. They own neither a boat nor a camper. Not even a few motorbikes or bicycles.
Others own fancy sports cars full of horsepower – impossible, however, to use on most occasions [...] [...]
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