About Technology – Mitsubishi has produced the i-Meiv with an electric motor Green cars powered by alternative fuel sources have become more visible. … But another factor is an increase in the range of eco-friendly cars on offer. These include hybrids with a combination of petrol engines and electric motors, fully battery-powered electric vehicles

Bigger is not always better as consumers give green light to fuel efficient carsKENS 5 TVAt the Los Angeles Auto Show this week, eco-friendly cars are the stage. … Related posts: San José Leaders Give the Green Light to Traffic Safety at Back-to … – California Chronicle · Fuel efficient Green Cars | Hybrid | Electric | Air-…

Toyota the plug-in naysayer? During a period of more than 3 years Toyota tested about 150 lithium-powered plug-in Prius hybrids – a fleet still larger than GM’s current Chevy Volt fleet – logging more than 1 million real world miles in almost every type of driving condition imaginable. The lithium batteries used proved safe and reliable, but still cost-ineffective. Next month, Toyota will produce another 350 plug-…

Some of the eco-friendly university vehicles on display at Tuesday’s announcement. The University of South Carolina unveiled its “Genesis 2015 Initiative” Tuesday (Dec. 1) that will create a college campus with 90 percent fewer … Within five years, all vehicles on the Columbia campus will be powered by ethanol, biodiesel , liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), electricity or hydrogen fuel cells. A hydrogen hybrid bus will become part of

A whole new take on the MiEV The PX-MiEV plug-in hybrid concept Mitsubishi’s first electric vehicles will hit the American market in 2011. Hopefully, that will include the very interesting PX-MiEV plug-in hybrid. The PX is a plug-in series hybrid, or a plug-in parallel hybrid; a two-wheel drive hybrid or a four-wheel drive hybrid. It’s all about your current driving conditions. Smart, very smart. Now, can it be…

GM’s hybrid story still developing Sure, the Chevy Volt is the poster child for GM’s clean and green efforts. And, even though GM doesn’t like to call the Volt a hybrid, the Volt is also GM’s marquee hybrid. But that doesn’t mean GM’s hybrid story is anywhere near the end. Yesterday, I learned that GM isn’t …

38 mpg in the city? Earlier this week Edmunds.com suggested a few new things about the Chevy Volt that I covered in Chevy Volt EV range and fuel economy updated . First, Edmunds claimed that the Chevy Volt, once EV range expires, would only achieve about 38 mpg. Second, Edmunds claimed that for the average driver – 15,000 miles per year – the Volt would cost about the same as a 59 mpg vehicle to fuel per year. Earlier today…

Can it shock the the Golden State? The Chevy Volt should meet its late 2010 production date, however, the Volt will only be available for sale in California until sometime in 2011. Overall, seems like a fairly smart move. California is the by far leading state for the purchase of hybrid cars

Some of the U.S. Armed Forces’ other green maneuvers are a bit more conventional, such as switching its gas-guzzling fleet of 50000 commercial cars and trucks to electric and hybrids by 2015. Whether these new programs are actual …

The Volt’s lithium-ion battery pack GM finally confirmed that the Chevy Volt will utilize an 8 gallon fuel tank to supplement the Volt’s EV range. So, what does that mean for the Volt’s real world range and fuel economy? Once the lithium ion battery pack drops down to 30 percent of its …

First, there are the new lines of green cars that are now available on the market, including fuel hybrids that are suppose to cause less pollution than cars of the past. Then we have the little city cars running on electricity that …

The hybrid car technology has become very popular that almost all carmakers would like to ri… Eco friendly cars · The Saturn Hybrid And Other Green Cars : An Review Of Eco-Friendly Vehicles (25.1667) Hybrid cars or the hybrid electric …