In the midst of the reorganization of General Motors and Chrysler, it’s disappointing to learn that Chrysler is bailing out of the electric vehicle game, jettisoning a plan to have 500,000 Chrysler EVs on the road by 2013 and shuttering its “Envi” division. (Even more disappointing since the company took $70 million from the Department [...]
ABCNews is running a story today by Lisa Stark and Lindsey Ellerson, “New Technology Successful in Reducing Severity of Car Crashes.” Basically it’s a run down of technologies (available and in development) to combat driver distraction for collision and accident avoidance. (The article runs to three pages and is well worth your time to get [...]
Now that the Obama administration has acknowledged that global warming is real and bad and Americans have had a taste of $4 a gallon gasoline, going green is no longer just a fashion statement. But driving a Porsche? Honestly people, when is that not a fashion statement?
Can the two be reconciled? According to Porsche sales [...]
Okay, I confess, for as much as I lust over a Smart car, I also nurse an ill-concealed desire for a Segway. When I actually saw one on the streets of Fort Worth, I almost drove off the road rubber necking. Now, General Motors has announced a partnership with Segway to produce a two-passenger, two-wheeled [...]
One of the more interesting tidbits to come out of the Geneva Auto Show is the news that Ford’s iosis Max concept could actually be headed for our fair shores and I must say, it’s a tasty intro to the carmaker’s new global design.
Make no mistake, the isosis is futuristic but functional with a low, [...]
According to a post over at Engadget, Nissan is working on a system to keep drivers from going the wrong way. Using a cellular-connected GPS, the unit would warn the driver if they head off in the wrong direction as well as tell them as they’re approaching an area “prone to congestion.” Well, unless, the [...]
Almost since the creation of affordable automobiles for the general public, cars have been immortalized in art. Sometimes the art is the design itself – blueprints, models, and even specifically chosen lines, curves, and proportion. Other times the art has been in the form of hand-painted advertising posters, often created by well-known artists, in much [...]
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 . . [...]
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 [...]