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Shanghai 2009: Peugeot RD Concept

Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Peugeot, Motorcycles, Shanghai Motor Show

Peugeot RD Concept – Click above for an image gallery of live and high-res renderings
Last year at the Beijing Motor Show, Peugeot announced a contest for budding car designers asking them to “Imagine the Peugeot in the Worldwide Megalopolis of tomorrow.” By all accounts, the [...] [...]

Shanghai 2009: Haima Fushida Me EV is too cute for gas

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, China, Shanghai Motor Show

Haima Fushida Me EV – Click above for a high-res image gallery
Haima Fushida, a joint venture between FAW and Mazda, has followed up its Fstar EV released at last year’s Beijing Motor Show with this, the Me EV. According to the automaker, the Me features a set of high-performance [...] [...]

Natural Born Winner: VW returns to the ‘Ring with Scirocco GT24-CNG

Filed under: Motorsports, Hybrids/Alternative, Hatchbacks, Volkswagen
Volkswagen Scirocco GT24-CNG – Click above for a hi-res gallery
Phase 1: Dominate your class in endurance racing. Phase 2: Continue to dominate your class in endurance racing, only this time do it without gasoline. That seems to be the game plan with the Volkswagen Group’s racing programs, so after winning [...] [...]

Biofuel Skycar headed for production in 2010

Filed under: Coupes, Hybrids/Alternative, Etc., Special/Limited Editions

Parajet Skycar prototypes – Click above for high-res image gallery
Earlier this year, the Parajet Skycar Expedition, featuring the “World’s First Bio-fuelled Flying Car,” flew from London, England to Timbuktu in Mali, Africa. If you lusted over something so incredibly cool – a car that can transform from ground to [...] [...]

Vue: Another kink in GM’s plug-in chain?

Is the Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid dead?
Well over a year ago GM was road testing an almost production ready plug-in hybrid. No, not the Chevy Volt, which GM prefers to call a range extended electric vehicle rather than a plug-in hybrid, but the Saturn Vue dual mode plug-in hybrid.
Now that Saturn is almost assuredly dead [...] [...]

Some deals on GM’s hybrid SUVs

If you have to…
I’m sorry. I know there are some people out there that actually utilize a large SUV for moving lots of people around and/or some towing. Still, I just have a hard time getting behind such vehicles.
Nonetheless, if you are a fan of large SUVs, it just became easier to buy something more [...] [...]

Time to revisit plug-in tax credit legislation?

Is its battery big enough?
There has been an AP story all over the Internet covering the difficulties of reaching President Obama’s 1 million plug-ins by 2015 goal. Cheap gas, a struggling economy, bankrupt automakers, and excessively expensive technology, etc. make the goal impossible without massive help from the government.
Thus far the government has offered tens [...] [...]

Lexus HS 250h

Never again let it be said that high-mileage hybrids are grim, joyless, or Spartan. The 2010 Lexus HS 250h sedan is the smallest and most economical car Lexus has ever built, but it’s unquestionably luxurious. Lexus has noted [...] [...]