The Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid, will not arrive in showrooms until late 2010. But it is already straining under the weight of an entire company....
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Foreign car companies that embraced green technologies rather than fight them are now the global leaders.
Matthew DeBord | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green
Assuming a federal bailout, it makes sense that, over the next few years, American carmakers will be re-engaging with the small-car market.
Wired | Stuart Schwartzapfel | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green
Everything about Alison Gannett is green, from her straw-bale house to her solar-powered appliances. But when you're as serious about curbing carbon a...
New York Times | Richard S. Chang | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business
Next year Honda and Toyota will go head-to-head with new flagship gas-electric hybrid cars. We all know what to expect from Toyota; its Prius is the b...
Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green
John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
Michael Brune | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
Rather than scour the world for oil that is increasingly expensive and difficult to get, we can jumpstart automakers to build a fleet of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles that get in excess of 100 mpg.
Jessica Catto | Posted 07.05.2008 | Green
What we know for certain is that if we are not actively involved in our future, our future may not happen. Democracy imposes this responsibility on us. Are we up for the challenge?
Diane Francis | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
North America should forget a continental energy policy which will guarantee its economic pre-eminence -- but this will only work if the US imposes strict conservation and Mexico changes its oil policies immediately.
GreenUpgrader | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green
They keep getting better and better! Here's another killer eco-friendly sports car. While this is still a concept, Hybrid Technologies has some pret...
Diane Francis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
America needs an energy intervention right now which will help the environment, slash trade deficits, reduce dependency foreign regimes and finance new technologies. Here are my ideas.
ENN.com | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green
Gasoline-powered cars are perhaps the most inefficient devices that many of us use daily. The internal combustion engine is inefficient in term of pol...
New York Times | BILL VLASIC | Posted 05.31.2008 | Green
They've been criticized as gas hogs, dinosaurs and land yachts. Now Detroit is hoping to cast its biggest sport utility vehicles in a new light: gree...
Business Week | David Welch | Posted 05.30.2008 | Green
Practically every automaker on the planet is being forced to make cars and trucks that pollute less and go farther on a tank of fuel. Here is what GM ...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
DETROIT — Kim Fenske drives a bus in Colorado by day, but when he's not working, he zooms around the mountains in a 2007 Toyota Prius. Fenske, ...
CNN/Money | Allan Chernoff | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
Buyer's remorse fills the New York International Auto Show at Manhattan's Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center this week. Owners of gas-hungry Sport Util...
Michael Drucker | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
The Hubble Telescope Found Organic Gas on an Extrasolar Planet: I don't know whether or not this distant planet has life or not but, you know what they say, where there's organic gas, there's butt sex.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. says it expects to bring its first lithium-ion battery powered hybrid engine system to market in North America in...
USA Today | James R. Healey | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
The expected introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two r...
Forbes Via MSNBC | Jim Gorzelany | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business
Hybrids are still niche vehicles, but at their current rate of growth, they could dominate the roads in another five or 10 years. U.S. hybrid sales j...
Los Angeles Times | Ken Bensinger | Posted 11.15.2007 | Business
American Honda Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. announced plans at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday to put alternative fuel te...
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New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business