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VIDEO: Lightning Hybrids' LH4 hits the road
Lightning Hybrids LH4 - Click above to watch the video after the break Back in early April at the Denver International Auto Show, Lightning Hybrids' showed off its new biodiesel-powered hydraulic-hybrid LH4, the design of which was inspired by the classic 1963 Split-Window Corvette. Although the team had to scramble to get the prototype together in time for its unveiling, things have now settled down a bit and Lightning has managed to get the vehicle in running condition. Assuming everything goes to plan, the car – supposedly capable ... Read more →
EDITORIAL: Attention Wall Street Journal - Ford does not use Toyota's hybrid system! Sam Abuelsamid
2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery in an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal, Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute starts by making a few decent points ...
REPORT: Toyota hopes to boost profits by licensing hybrid technology Jeremy Korzeniewski
2010 Toyota Prius – Click above for high-res image gallery Over the last ten years or so, Toyota has amassed a wide-ranging assortment of more than 2,000 patents related to its proprietary ...
Yamaha files patents for hybrid motorcycle based on Gen-Ryu, LUXAIR concepts Jeremy Korzeniewski
2005 Yamaha Gen-Ryu patent filing - Click above for high-res image gallery Yamaha is reportedly developing a hybrid motorcycle based on the Gen-Ryu concept that first debuted at the Tokyo Motor ...
Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70! Sam Abuelsamid
By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for General ...
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Two-mode hybrid buses debut in the UK 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
Hybrid transit buses using the GM-Allison Two-mode hybrid system are becoming fairly common in North America with several thousand now on the road. In the UK however, the two-mode buses are brand new, with the first four recently going into service in London. The two-mode hybrid transmissions are ...
Dean Kamen working on hybrid scooter with Stirling engine 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Dean Kamen's Stirling-powered hybrid scooter patents - Click above for image gallery We've known about Dean Kamen's work on the Stirling engine for hybrid vehicle use since the inventor introduced the DEKA Revolt late last year. According to some recently-filed patent applications, though, it ...
Toyota will continue focusing on "clean halo" hybrids, not EVs or diesels 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Toyota FT-EV concept - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not terribly surprising that Toyota – the automaker often credited for creating the first modern mainstream hybrid automobile – would seek to continue establishing its marketplace dominance in hybrid automobiles. The ...
Ford could electrify 10-25 percent of its fleet by 2020 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Ford Escape PHEV - Click above for high-res image gallery With Ford taking on a $5.9 billion loan from the DOE and President Obama in favor of a million plug-in vehicles by 2015, how might the money help Ford put plugs on upcoming vehicles. Ford was quite clear that the DOE money will be used to ...
Columnist: electric vehicle hype needs to be tempered 2 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Coda sedan - Click above for high-res image gallery Is the Detroit News becoming a home for anti-electric vehicle advocates? Last week, the News published a mostly confusing article by Manny Lopez that criticized the DOE loan that Tesla received. Another column, this one by Neil Winton, is ...
McLaren looking for hybrid powertrain engineer 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
McLaren F1 LM - Click above for high-res image gallery McLaren has put up a job posting for a Senior Engineer for Powertrain Hybrid Technology on its official website, which may offer a few clues as to where the automaker may be heading in the near future for its road cars. The listing rather ...
Toyota stung by possible Prius HID headlight defect 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery We'd wager that the last thing Toyota wants in the midst of the super-important launch of its new third-generation Prius is a negative stigma attached to the previous model. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the Japanese automaker may ...
"New energy car" classifications revised by Chinese government 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 BYD F3DM - Click above for high-res image gallery In China, the government tries to keep a tight reign on what companies can produce and sell. For example companies aren't allowed to get into the car business without prior approval from Beijing which is why the company trying to buy Hummer ...
Consumer Reports blasts Honda Insight, ranked 21 of 22 tested 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 Honda Insight - Click above for high-res image gallery Calling it "the most disappointing Honda Consumer Reports has tested in a long time," America's most influential product testing magazine has given extremely poor marks to the Japanese automaker's new Insight hybrid. In a verdict that ...
Honda still targeting its engines as a key to hybrid improvement 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Honda Insight - Click above for high res image gallery Electric motors and batteries are only part of the equation when it comes to hybrid vehicles. Hybrids still need an engine and Honda is a company that has built its reputation on engines over the past half century. As Takeo Fukui ...
GM: Volt to be sportier alternative to Prius and Insight 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high res image gallery Now that the Chevrolet Volt has progressed to the point where vehicles with production-looking bodywork are running around the automaker's testing grounds in Warren, Michigan, the time has come for the crew to begin ironing out details ...
REPORT: GM execs to meet with Toyota regarding hybrid sharing 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Toyota Prius – Click above for high-res image gallery Rumors that General Motors may get access to Toyota's proprietary hybrid technology just won't go away. Today, Bloomberg cites two unnamed sources in reports that Toyota President Akio Toyoda and GM chief Fritz Henderson will meet ...
Pics aplenty: Mercedes-Benz BlueZERO concept 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Mercedes-Benz concept BlueZero - Click above for high-res image gallery Without an accompanying announcement about any changes to the status of the Mercedes-Benz Concept BlueZERO, Daimler today released a bunch of new pictures of the hydrogen/gas-electric hybrid/pure electric concept car. The ...
Tong Jian S11 hybrid sports car attempts to channel inner Audi and Ferrari 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Tong Jian S11 - Click above for image gallery Somehow, we managed to miss China's first-ever hybrid sports car at the Shanghai Motor Show earlier this year. The car is called the S11 from Tong Jian – which incidentally also seems to be the name of a popular Chinese figure skater – ...
REPORT: U.S. to get four versions of Fiat 500 by 2011, no word on hybrid 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Fiat 500C - Click above for high-res gallery Fiat is confirming that the U.S. will be getting four versions of the Fiat 500 by 2011. The tiny 500 is the only Fiat model that has been officially greenlighted for American consumption under the Fiat banner. Other models will likely show up as ...
Mulally: Ford's path to profitability based on electrification 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery Ford CEO Alan Mulally says the automaker is on track to return to profitability by 2011, despite posting a record $14.7 billion loss in 2008 and a forecast to continue posting losses through the rest of 2009 and 2010. A major ...
Sanyo to crank up hybrid battery production capacity by 75% 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Sanyo is one of the biggest suppliers of nickel metal hydride batteries for hybrid vehicles, along with Panasonic EV energy. Currently, Sanyo's primary customers are Honda and Ford, but the company also has deals with Volkswagen and Audi for future products from Germany. Ford's ability to sell ...
Rendering: 2011 Honda CR-ZX hybrid 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Honda has said for almost two years that the very good looking CR-Z hybrid concept would make it to production. We've heard that the production version of the CR-Z would harken back to the original two-seat CRX and would be more aggressive and sporty than the 2009 Insight. Now, Japan's Best Car ...
$6.5 billion Chinese hybrid-electric car plant for Mississippi up in the air 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Greenlings: Can pulse and glide work to improve electric vehicle highway range? 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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, ...
REPORT: Chevy Volt will be built, sold in China 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
GM will do "heavy lifting" toward plug-in goal [w/POLL] 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
BMW likely to use KERS hybrid on next generation M5 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Bright Automotive looking for ATVMLP money, too 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
REPORT: Compact hybrid Range Rover LRX gets go ahead 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Land Rover LRX Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Automakers that hope to continue doing business over the next few years need to be increasingly aware of their fuel consumption, emissions and environmental credibility. In deference to this fact, Auto Express in the UK is reporting ...
Volt chief engineer takes first drive in integration prototype [w/VIDEO] 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Chevrolet Volt Integration prototype - click above for high res image gallery The technicians and engineers at GM's Pre-Production operations center at the Warren, MI tech center have been hard at work for the last several weeks trying to finish up the first of about 75 integration prototypes of ...
Fisker Karma Sunset, Converj, BlueSport Roadster win Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Fisker Karma Sunset Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Fisker's undeniably gorgeous Karma Sunset concept was named the 2009 Production Preview Vehicle of the Year at the North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards last night at the Automotive Hall of Fame in Detroit. ...
GM Veep Beth Lowery: Future Volts will turn a profit 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Chevy Volt powertrain mule - Click above for high-res image gallery Since the automaker's descent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a number of people have taken to referring to GM as Government Motors. That's clever, but Beth Lowery, GM Vice President, Environment, Energy & Safety Policy, has a ...
Chevy Malibu Hybrid up for grabs in Times Square today 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Chevy Malibu Hybrid - Click above for high-res image gallery You soon won't be able to buy a new Chevy Malibu Hybrid (they're being discontinued), but if you think GM's fuel-conscious sedan is the car for you - and you happen to be in NYC today, head on down to Times Square. eBay has been ...
REPORT: GM persuing Chrysler for repayment of Two-Mode Hybrid development 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
In a case that's sure to light up our own comments section along with untold numbers of message boards across the web, our friends at PickupTrucks.com are reporting that General Motors has filed documents in court in an attempt to get New Chrysler to honor its full pre-bankruptcy debt of $531,275 ...
Toyota Prius ad campaign most liked by TV viewers (w/VIDEO) 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Toyota Prius Harmony commercial - Click above to watch the video after the break By now, we've all probably seen the commercials from Toyota's latest marketing campaign for the 2010 Prius hybrid... and we've all probably developed an opinion on them. Any time an advertising campaign is as ...
