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Quick Drive: Ford Fiesta 5-door hatchback
Ford Fiesta - click above for a high res gallery For all the strength that the U.S. automakers have shown in the realm of big trucks and SUVs over the last thirty years, they are remarkably weak when it comes to small cars. However, all that appears to be about to change quite dramatically. A plethora of stylish small cars are coming to market over the next 12-24 months wearing the badges of, at least, Ford and General Motors. Chrysler may even get in the action if it can consummate a deal with Fiat and get the 500. At the moment however, ... Read more →
New York 2009: Fisker says plug-in hybrids will cost just $20,000 in a decade Sebastian Blanco
According to Henrik Fisker, the auto industry is due for some big changes. As the only representative of a young automaker participating in the Newsweek Future of Automotive Panel Discussion at the ...
New York 2009: Hyundai Nuvis concept hints at next-gen CUVs Sam Abuelsamid
Hyundai Nuvis concept – Click above for high-res image gallery The first hint of what we can expect from the next generation Tucson and Santa Fe crossovers was revealed today at the New York ...
New York 2009: Mitsubishi details global iMiEV plans Sebastian Blanco
Mitsubishi i MiEV - click above for high-res image gallery Mitsubishi's big electric car announcement at the New York Auto Show was that the iMiEV would be coming to the U.S. All we could get out ...
It's Friday! EVcast vs. the New York Auto Show Domenick Yoney
The New York International Auto Show has been going on this week and it appears that AutoblogGreen was not the only media on hand with an interest in checking out the latest in ...
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New York 2009: EVII shows off the Wave and Inizio 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
EVII Wave – Click above for high-res image gallery EV Innovations Inc. (EVII) was formerly known as Hybrid Technologies. The old name never really fit, because the company specializes in electric vehicles, not hybrids. Here at the New York Auto Show, EVII began rectifying that oversight ...
Peapod, up close and personal with the electric vehicle in Manhattan 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Peapod - click above for a high res gallery Breaking away from the excitement free food here at the New York Auto Show today, we joined up with our friends over at Engadget to pay a quick visit to Peapod Mobility. You know, the GEM version 2 folks. While saying this is the next-generation GEM is ...
New York 2009: Performance, the past and the hoped for future 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The Dodge Viper sits in the shadow of the Circuit EV prototype Out in the middle of the Dodge display here at the Javits center lies the past and future of performance cars. Sitting on the floor is the epitome of old school performance, the Viper SRT-10. With a rip-roaring 8.4-liter V10, the ...
New York 2009: How the Mitsubishi iMiEV electric car will be welcomed to Portland, OR 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mitsubishi i-MiEV – Click above for high-res image gallery Following today's announcement that the i-MiEV will come to the U.S. in the near future, we took a few minutes to speak with Charlie Allcock, director of economic development at PGE (not PG&E, because, as I found out, saying ...
Quick Drive: 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid, two-mode goes German 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high res gallery of the Mercedes-Benz ML450 hybrid An hour after Mercedes-Benz unveiled its new ML450 hybrid at the New York Auto Show, we got to take our first quick drive in the first German version of a two-mode hybrid. Mercedes-Benz has been collaborating with General ...
New York 2009: Mitsubishi confirms i-MiEV will come to U.S. 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mitsubishi i MiEV - click above for high-res image gallery At a press conference here in New York in a few minutes, Mitsubishi representatives will officially announce that the i-MiEV electric vehicle - already a hit in test drives and displays the world over - will be coming to the U.S. This ...
New York 2009: And the WCOY's World Green Car is ... 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high res gallery of the finalists In New York this morning, the organizers of the world car of the year competition honored four cars that garnered the most votes in their respective categories from an international jury of journalists. While other categories where open to all ...
New York 2009: Chrysler shows off its battery packs 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Lou Rhodes and the Dodge Circuit battery pack I've heard of carrying extra batteries for a laptop but this is a bit ridiculous. Actually, that's the president of Chrysler electric vehicle ENVI division Lou Rhodes with his laptop sitting on top of the battery pack case for the Dodge Circuit. When ...
New York 2009: Counter Balance - the batmobile of yellow, expandable trucks 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Counter Balance – Click above for high-res image gallery Sometimes the words fail me. Here in the press room at the New York Auto Show, though, people had all sorts of things to say about the Counter Balance, um, truck ... thing ... concept ... vehicle. The best of the bunch: "that's what ...
New York 2009: The Scion iQ goes Big Wheels! 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Scion iQ Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery To no one's surprise, Toyota unveiled the Scion iQ concept today at the New York Auto Show. Ever since the iQ debuted in Europe last year, the expectation has been that Toyota would sell the micro compact car as a Scion here in the ...
New York 2009: Mercedes-Benz ML 450 hybrid can go 34 mph on batteries 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mercedes-Benz ML 450 hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery The road to production for the Mercedes-Benz ML450 hybrid wasn't always smooth, but now that the Germans have shown off the new SUV here at the New York Auto Show (following its early debut at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor ...
New York 2009: Mercedes E250 Bluetec concept would get 28/39 city/hwy rating 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mercedes-Benz E250 BlueTEC – Click above for high-res image gallery Mercedes-Benz brought the new E250 BlueTEC concept sedan to the New York Auto Show today, showing the type of clean diesel sedan that could follow in the wake of last year's BlueTEC SUV mini-fleet. The E250 BlueTEC boasts ...
New York 2009: GMC Terrain gets all-DI engine lineup 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Like its mechanical twin, the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox, the new GMC Terrain is getting an engine lineup that consists entirely of direct injected engines. The base 2.4-liter EcoTec four cylinder is expected to give the Terrain an EPA highway fuel economy of 30 mpg and get cleaner cold-start ...
GM and Segway's PUMA live reveal 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the GM/Segway Project P.U.M.A. You know how the oil companies are all trying to become energy companies now? The new PUMA (aka, the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility Project) from GM and Segway shows one way that auto companies could shift over to ...
Auto X Prize teaser update, more coming Wednesday and Thursday 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
With the New York Auto Show just around the corner, representatives from the Progressive Automotive X Prize will use the occasion and will mark the one-year anniversary of the official start of the competition by revealing the list of all registered teams, possibly as early as tomorrow. 80 teams ...
GM and Segway working on new balancing 2-wheeler? 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the GM/Segway Project P.U.M.A. Please hold a moment while we check our calendars. Nope, it's definitely not April 1st. That must mean the stories circulating the internet tonight of a GM tie-up with Segway must be true. The Personal Urban Mobility and ...
New York Preview: GMC adds Yukon Denali hybrid and Terrain SUVs 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
General Motors is planning to add another SUV to its hybrid vehicle fleet, in this case wearing the Yukon's top-level Denali trim. There's not much new to report here, as the Yukon Denali Hybrid will feature the same exact drivetrain that's fitted to its siblings from The General, including the ...
New York Preview: Mitsubishi to add "idle neutral logic" to Outlander 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mitsubishi Outlander GT Prototype – Click above for high-res image gallery Next week in New York, Mitsubishi will reveal a new version of its Outlander crossover. The Outlander GT Prototype includes a new feature dubbed Idle Neutral Logic. According to Mitsubishi, this system shifts the ...
Spy shot: Scion iQ already in New York? 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
In mid-March, Scion confirmed that a new concept car would be headed our way during the New York Auto Show. This "micro-subcompact" sounded like a Scion-badged iQ to us, and now we think we have the first spy shots of the car being unloaded in New York. Of course, this being April Fool's and all, ...
Land Rover working on new 8-speed automatic transmission, refinements for fuel economy 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res image gallery of the Land Rover LRX Land Rover is set to unveil a newly-revised line of SUVs at the New York Auto Show in a couple of weeks, and we're expecting to see the latest version of Jaguar's excellent 5.0L all-aluminum V8 engine underhood, mated up with a ...
EV Innovations to debut two new cars at NY Auto Show 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
According to a report on AutoWeek, EV Innovations (which used to be called Hybrid Technologies) has plans to introduce two new electric vehicles at the 2009 New York Auto Show next month. We've been hearing about the Inizio supercar for a while and we're thinking it's the production version of the ...
Scion confirms new concept car headed for New York, iQ on the way? 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res image gallery of the Toyota iQ Scion has decided to end speculation about whether a new concept vehicle will be unveiled at the New York Auto Show by issuing a press release confirming our suspicions. In the process, though, the automaker has stirred the pot back up ...
World Green Car of the Year Finalists announced: iMiEV, iQ and FCX Clarity 3 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Honda FCX Clarity and the Toyota iQ were named the top three contenders for the World Green Car of the Year award that will be announced during the New York Auto Show next month. While there were some European and American vehicles in the original list of 22 cars, only ...
Hybrid Technologies changes it name to EV Innovations Inc 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
While perusing YouTube the other day, we happened across some re-posted videos from the Hybrid Technologies collection. Nothing out of the ordinary, but then we read a video description that said ,"EV Innovations, formerly Hybrid Technologies, shows off one of thier [sic] electric vehicles." Huh? EV ...
Lutz thanks the "Volt Nation" for their enthusiasm 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Back on the March 20, we recapped a bit of news from the first ever meeting of the so-called "Volt Nation" which took place at the New York Auto Show. Now, Lutz would like to thank the Volt Nation, along with ringleader Dr. Lyle Dennis (left, in the photo above), creator of the popular GM-Volt fan ...
New York 2008: everything on the Progressive Automotive X Prize in one place 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
We had a heap of posts on the Progressive Automotive X Prize (that still doesn't quite roll off the tongue) following the big announcement from New York last week. In the flurry of posts, it may have been easy for someone who doesn't check AutoblogGreen with an F5-trigger finger fanaticism ...
ABG First Impression: Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid w/Video 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
At the New York Auto Show last week we had our first opportunity to actually go for a drive in one of Ford's new plug-in hybrid Escapes. Last year Ford announced a partnership with Southern California Edison to build and test twenty plug-in hybrid Escapes. SCE will be using the crossovers in their ...
New York 2008: Best rumor heard at the show = Aptera in Star Trek 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Out of the 60+ teams signed up to potentially participate in the Progressive Automotive X Prize, there were four teams that brought cars to the big announcement at the New York Auto Show last week. One team we would have liked to see was Aptera with their Type I three-wheeler. But the vehicle was a ...
New York 2008: BMW North America CEO takes a swipe at Mercedes' clean diesel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
During the BMW press conference at the New York Auto Show last week, BMW North America president and CEO Tom Purves made a nice swipe at the earlier announcement from Mercedes about those clean diesel SUVs. While Purves talked about the BMW's ActiveHybrid and clean diesel systems in general, he ...
New York 2008: Jory Squibb returns with an X-Prize entry 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
click to enter gallery We met Jory Squibb way back in late 2006 over at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo. How can you miss a guy driving a tiny, 100+mpg bubble car called the Moonbeam? Jory, from Maine, is now back on the ABG radar with his presence at the New York Auto Show. He didn't have a car with ...
New York 2008: Motive Industries' muscular X Prize entry vehicle needs a name 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Of the 60+ teams that have signed a letter of intent to participate in the Progressive Automotive X Prize, about 15 were on hand at the New York Auto Show. With only four cars on stage, it's easy to calculate that some teams arrived sans vehicle. The group from Motive Industries had just a little ...
