Electric Car Blogging

How much longer can pickup trucks butter the Big 3's bread? Or some time this decade? Due to increasing worldwide demand for oil, a former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister is predicting $5.00 gas in 2012 according to CNN. Another analyst, Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with Oil Price Information Service, believes $5.00 gas is coming this [...] [...]

On Nov. 12, 2010, we ran a story about the fuel-saving technology known as stop-start or micro-hybrids. The article read: “There are virtually zero micro-hybrids currently on U.S. roads, mostly because the technology is dismissed in favor of sexier alternatives, like electric cars…[but] the reluctance to shift to micro-hybrids could turn around very quickly. [...] [...]

Start stop isn't just for hybrid cars. Ford plans greater use of start/stop technology For decades automakers, particularly US automakers, have taken every opportunity to increase fuel economy as a means to also increase horsepower and/or size. Of course, such a phenomenon isn’t really that surprising. Since trucks are the bread and butter of the US auto [...] [...]

Nearly three years ago, on the first business day of 2008, the price of oil rose above the symbolic mark of $100 a barrel. Later in the year, the price spiked to $147 a barrel, with gas prices surpassing $4 a gallon. That event dramatically shifted consumers toward hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars. [...] [...]