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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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