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Would you buy a GM hybrid made in China?

Is China GM’s future The Chinese automarket is growing, fast. This year more cars might be sold in China than in America, yet the auto sales potential in China has barely been scratched. Today, GM is a strong player in China and its Buick brand is probably the hottest name in the Chinese auto market. Consequently, GM [...] [...]

Making Sense of Rising Gas Prices, Or Not

As we approach the one-year anniversary of gas, once again prices at the pumps are on the rise. In the past week, the national average price for regular gasoline surged more than 16 cents to .24 per [...] [...]

Spy Shots: Is this the face of the next Mini Cooper? Probably not.

Filed under: Spy Photos, Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Hatchbacks, BMW, MINI Take a good look at the spy shot above. The car you see is obviously a MINI of some sort, though nobody seems quite sure what to make of it. There’s a possibility that it’s nothing more than a clay mock-up of a possible design direction that [...] [...]

REPORT: Fisker planning third Karma variant, low-cost hybrid

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green Fisker CEO Henrik Fisker feels like the automotive world is at the beginning of a renaissance, and he believes now is the first time in 40 years that start-up automakers can compete and even thrive against the established OEMs. Fisker has already began to rage against the machine with the Karma. It [...] [...]

Energy Secretary Chu: Win a Nobel, save world

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the Department of Energy plans to establish research centers modeled on Bell Laboratories to spark the development of disruptive energy inventions. Chu delivered the Compton lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday, where he told academics and local green-tech business people … [...]