F-150 SVT Raptor orders speed past expectations; Breathe easier with new Ford cabin air filters; Lincoln MKT earns top safety ratings; adds to Ford’s safety leadership; Ford named one of Fast Company‘s top 10 ‘Most Innovative’ companies [...]
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Only for Europe? Here’s the latest sketch of the Hyundai i-flow diesel hybrid concept. The i-flow hybrid is powered by a 1.7-liter turbodiesel, six-speed dual-clutch transmission, coupled with an electric motor and a lithium-ion-polymer battery. Interestingly, outside of European automakers, there has been little interest in diesel hybrid cars. Sure, there have been concepts, such [...] [...] Tax money required for hybridization? Last year Jaguar received almost $800 million in government loans to keep the automaker alive. This year the EU has granted another $500 million to Jaguar to develop hybrid cars. Why? Does the world really need Jaguar, even a hybrid Jaguar? [...] Styling changes to the RAV4 Hybrid will be revealed at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. A hybrid version is due in 2012. UK’s Autocar website reported yesterday that Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motors Sales, confirmed development of a hybrid gas-electric version of the company’s RAV4 crossover SUV. Lentz added that Toyota’s 1.8-liter hybrid [...] [...] By John Gartner Planners from Johnson Controls map out a new battery facility in Holland Michigan. Government grants, like the $299 million supplied to Johnson Controls by the Department of Energy, could mean 20,000 new jobs and a future glut of lithium ion automotive batteries. In advance of this fall’s launch of plug-in hybrid and electric [...] [...] Leaving her babies behind? Denise Gray, GM’s Director of Global Battery Engineering, is leaving GM to take a senior leadership position with an unannounced California start-up. Gray has worked with GM for 30 years and took over her director role in 2006. Her main task has been building GM’s battery labs in preparation for the Chevy Volt, [...] [...] The back end of the Lotus Evora 414E hybrid OK. I know that most following this blog don’t really care about luxury hybrids, such as Porsche’s latest Cayenne hybrid, or hybrid sports cars, such as the latest announced by Lotus. Nonetheless, I though the Lotus Evora 414E plug-in hybrid was worth a little ink this morning. Not [...] [...] On sale now in Japan The Honda CR-Z hybrid is now on sale in Japan and will make its way to the US and Europe this summer or a little thereafter. Based on Japanese pricing, the CR-Z hybrid should retail for $25,340, while offering Honda fatter profit margins than both the Honda Insight hybrid and the [...] [...] |
 
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