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Lutz out, new Prius-fighting hybrids in?

Time to take on the Prius I’ve met GM’s Bob Lutz a number of times, and I’ve largely been in awe of the guy every time, even though I’ve never really agreed with him on hardly any issue. Consequently, I’m glad that Mr. Lutz is retiring. It’s not that Lutz didn’t do a lot of great things [...] [...]

Geography, Oil and the Coda Electric Car

The all-electric Coda sedan will have a range of about 100 miles—on a full charge of about 6 hours. It will sell for around $40,000. The Coda all-electric sedan, due late this year, is the underdog in the race for an affordable mass-market pure electric car. As a start-up, it doesn’t have the financial and [...] [...]

Other automakers just as culpable as Toyota?

Congress = Clueless? Reactionary? Complicit? “If you look at the entire market size and fleet size of Toyota, I think they were the largest fleet during that time period as well. If you look at it on a per capita basis, I think our investigators and the data shows that while they had more sudden [...] [...]

$7.00 gas only way to curb global warming emissions?

Harvard’s eye-popping study To reach President Obama’s global warming emission’s cuts, according to a new Harvard study, gas prices will have to reach $7.00 per gallon. Sadly, tax credits for hybrid cars and EVs were not seen as an effective path towards reducing emissions, as such tax credits can actually make people drive more according to the [...] [...]

The Geneva hybrid vehicle show, kind of

But is it all just hype? Auto shows and hybrid cars. It’s the norm, right? So far the Geneva Auto Show has seemed a bit like a hybrid festival, particularly with the debuts of Porsche and Ferrari hybrids sucking up a lot of press. But what do these hybrids really mean? Not much. Probably the most important debut thus [...] [...]