Electric Car Blogging

The Ford inspired Tribute hybrid
By 2013 or so, Mazda will seek to sell about 100,000 hybrid vehicles per year using a hybrid system provided by Toyota that will include batteries, motors, control units, etc according to GreenCarCongress.
In the past Mazda has developed hybrids with Ford, but that original Ford technology included licensed Toyota hybrid technology, [...] [...]

Auris hybrid to begin production next year
Toyota has confirmed that it will begin producing a full hybrid version of the Auris in England in mid-2010.
‘With today’s announcement, Toyota has taken a significant step forward in ensuring that full hybrids become more accessible to a wider range of customers. Such efforts are crucial if we are [...] [...]

Beholden to the corn lobby?
I am not an ethanol fan. It’s corrosive and inefficient. It’s polluting our water systems, and it probably takes as much energy to produce ethanol as it provides, if not more. And, after many years of massive government subsidies, E85 is still only available at just 2 percent of the nation’s [...] [...]

National average at .49
Gas prices continue to trend downward, and as America heads into the winter, gas prices should fall even more. And, if the recession sticks into 2010, prices could be, overall, cheaper next year than this year.
Coincidentally, this decline in gas prices could continue as automakers begin a more serious roll out of [...] [...]

Tesla Motors is the drama queen of the auto industry. But if you can look beyond the company’s histrionics—lawsuits, financial struggles, exaggerated promises, repeated delays, and inflated egos—the brilliance of its vehicle design shines through. So far, the best example of its ingenuity is the Tesla Model S—a bright vision of what a practical [...] [...]