Many American states, primarily amongst them Texas and Florida, have advanced the cultivation of and fostered defensive driving courses.
Those states have given businesses incentives to build these tuition-based education facilities by offering what amounts to moving violation credits. In many areas, this means you may have that speeding ticket cancelled in exchange for attending traffic [...]
Needless to say, green advocates were not pleased with the news that sales of gasoline-electric hybrids in the United States fell 9.9 percent in 2008. Not pleased, but not surprised either. When gasoline was going for $4 a gallon, hybrids looked good — vital even. But with the automotive industry in the er . . [...]
An updated version of Microsoft Sync will show up in the 2010 Fords and will include:
- traffic info
- directions, and
- voice navigated news.
The guys over at Engadget, who haven’t been big fans of Sync, did a hands on review earlier this month complete with video shot inside a Ford Escape.
It’s short and sweet, but [...]
So Ford says it will release a range of plug-in electrics between 2010 and 2012, the results of its so-called Project M, an internal campaign started last summer with the goal of producing an all-electric in six months. In an industry where a model can be in development for months — years even — that’s [...]
These days everything automotive seems to be gloom and doom, but there are innovations and indications of progress out there under the layer of black mourning cloth. For instance, the world’s largest supplier of carbon fiber, Toray Industries Inc., of Japan, has acquired a 21 percent take in ACE Advanced Composite Engineering GmbH, its chief [...]