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Suzuki Alto Lapin – Click above for high-res gallery
According to reports from Reuters and Manager Magazin in Germany, Volkswagen is keen to purchase a 10 percent stake in Suzuki in order to cooperate on future small cars for emerging markets. In its home market of Japan, Suzuki is the second-largest automaker (behind Toyota) and dominates [...]

Might a $6.5 billion hybrid-electric car factory be coming to Mississippi? Depending on what happens with a lawsuit that has shone light on the previously unknown deal, we think it’s a definite maybe. Or maybe not (c’mon, we’re bloggers, not soothsayers). Apparently, quiet plans had been afoot to begin building on a 3,500 acre site [...]

Wayne Gerdes explains hypermiling before the Ford Fusion 1,000 mile challenge
Recently we got a question from a reader regarding the benefit of using the common hypermiling technique of “pulse and glide” with a battery electric vehicle. Given the relative scarcity of pure electric vehicles, P&G has mostly been used by hybrid drivers as one of [...]

2009 BMW 750i – Click above for high-res image gallery
This fall, BMW will be introducing two new upgraded diesel engines to the recently launched 7-series in the 730d and 740d. Both engines have a 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder layout with common rail injection and turbochargers. The 740d gets the 306 hp twin turbo engine we reported [...]

Yuneec E430 electric airplane – Click above for high-res image gallery
It isn’t the first electric airplane we’ve seen, nor is it the fastest. It’s not even the first one to be shown at the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. What makes the Yuneec E430 unique is that it may be the first fully-enclosed battery-powered aircraft to [...]

Chevrolet Volt Integration prototype – click above for high res image gallery
The Chevy Volt is, as has been repeatedly said, the car that could save GM. With the auto market in China poised for expansion (at some point), it’s no surprise that The General is thinking of making and selling the extended-range electric vehicle (ER-EV) [...]

2011 Chevy Volt – Click above for high-res gallery
It’s going to be awfully tough to hit President Obama’s stated goal of one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. After all, that’s just over five years away and there aren’t actually any affordable plug-in-capable vehicles available as of today from a major automaker [...]

The crew at BWM’s M division are all about performance and extracting all of it that they can from run-of-the-mill bimmers. However, they are not immune to the realities of the modern world and the demands for improved efficiency and reduced carbon emissions. With the X5 M and X6 M launching this summer, the next [...]

Bright IDEA EV van – click above for high-res image gallery
The amount of the money flowing from Washington, D.C. into green car companies these days is pretty astonishing (well, unless you’re working on hydrogen cars). The DOE announced $8 billion in loans from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program (ATVMLP) this week, but there [...]

In conjunction with the launch of its diesel engines in the U.S., Audi has created a Facebook Causes page to benefit the Nature Conservancy. For every person that joins the cause, Audi has committed to donating a dollar to the Tensas River basin project where the Nature Conservancy is conducting a carbon offset program. The [...]