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Nearly 10,000 Can Am Spyders recalled over faulty steering
Can-Am Spyder - Click above for high-res image gallery It shouldn't come as a surprise that a vehicle as innovative as the three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder would face a few teething problems during its first few years on the market. Unfortunately, one particular aspect of the machine's power steering system has reportedly caused at least three injuries, though none have so far been life threatening. To remedy the apparent defect, Can-Am has agreed to voluntarily recall some 12,500 Spyders (9,932 of them sold in the United States) that were ... Read more →
Shell station starts selling E10 in Ottawa using wheat straw ethanol Xavier Navarro
A Shell station near Ottawa, Canada is leading the way in offering cellulosic ethanol at the pump. While many companies, including some in Canada, are working on making the biofuel, not many have ...
Martin Eberhard building mobile charging units for Tesla Roadster Xavier Navarro
Could we be watching the birth of the Tesla equivalent of Mopar? Inside Line thinks so, what with the news that one of the founders of Tesla Motors, Martin Eberhard, is one of many who are interested ...
First Drive: 2010 Lexus HS 250h is pretty on the inside Jonathon Ramsey
2010 Lexus HS 250h – Click above for high-res image gallery Just because The Cold War is over doesn't mean that all cold wars have come to an end. Two protagonists in the auto industry ...
Canadian E5 mandate to move ahead despite concerns Sam Abuelsamid
Despite growing concerns that the widespread production and use of corn ethanol is actually counter-productive to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Canadian government is moving ahead with a ...
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Canada to get the Mazda2 within a year 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mazda2 - click above for a high res gallery Toronto's Globe and Mail is reporting that Canadian car buyers will soon have a new small car option available when Mazda introduces it's B-segment 2. The little 2 shares its underpinnings with the Ford Fiesta and Mazda has hinted in the past at ...
Fuelmaker goes bankrupt, Honda to blame? 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Fuelmaker, the company that creates the PHILL compressed natural gas filling stations for residential and commercial use, has just been driven into involuntary bankruptcy. You may recall that Fuelmaker is owned by Honda, which had been in negotiations last year to sell the company to a number of ...
Chevy Volt scheduled for Canadian launch in August 2011 2 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high res image gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt General Motors has said time and again that it will not delay the introduction of the Chevy Volt here in the United States, despite growing concerns that the automaker's financial difficulties could put the project in danger. ...
Canada wants North American fuel efficiency standard 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice believes that there should be a single fuel efficiency standard for all countries in North America. He says, "At this point in the United States, it would appear as though they are headed toward a 35 mile a gallon standard by 2020 and that would start to ...
Tesla Roadster on sale in Canada as of... today, deliveries start in Q4 '09 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Tesla Roadster Canada has not always been the friendliest territory for electric cars, but that's changing. After the Tesla empire officially expanded to Chicago yesterday, the company has announced it will join the northern rush and is now ready to take ...
Win a maple leaf smart fortwo edit10n, eh 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a gallery of the Canadian edit10n To celebrate the tenth year of the smart brand, Mercedes-Benz is making some incredibly limited editions of the fortwo called edit10n. For the Canada-specific version of the edit10n, only be ten copies will be made. What makes this edit10n ...
It's Friday: Making roadkill live again through recycling 5 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It's bound to happen. If you travel very many miles, especially at night, it's quite likely you'll create roadkill. Even some of the expert drivers here at AutoblogGreen have taken the life of a street-crossing animal. (I'm sooo sorry, Mr. or Mrs. Bunny, I tried to miss, I really tried.) While ...
Reasons to quit: Millions of gallons leaking from oil sands tailings ponds daily 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Just in case you needed another reason to cut back on your gasoline consumption, you might consider the pollution catastrophe we are creating in Canada, America's main oil supplier. A new report (PDF) released by Environmental Defense, using industry figures, estimates that tailings ponds created ...
Ontario will allow low-speed electric vehicles, with warnings, on public roads 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Photo by El Gran Dee. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Ontario, the Canadian province that's thinking of not letting kids onto three-wheeled eco-cars, has made a green car-friendly move by deciding that Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs) will soon be allowed on the road. The rules for LSVs ...
Solar-powered Power of 1 (Xof1) sets new distance record 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Way back in 2006, we spoke with Marcelo da Luz about his ambitious project to drive a solar car farther than anyone had ever driven one, about 14,000 kilometers across North America. This past weekend, he reached his goal up in Victoria, British Columbia after cruising over 15,070 km (9,364 miles) ...
BlueTEC microsite now available from Mercedes-Benz Canada 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Mercedes made a big red, white and blue balloon-y smash with their BlueTEC SUVs at the New York Auto Show earlier this year and the vehicles are in American showrooms now. In the Great White North, Mercedes-Benz Canada has just launched a new BlueTEC microsite to introduce Canadian car buyers to ...
smart sales skyrocket in Canada 8 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The 3,152 smart fortwos that Daimler has sold this year in Canada through the end of September represent a gain of 46% over the same period last year. That is the single largest year-on-year gain ever recorded in Canada. There are a number of reasons for the sales increase, with high fuel prices ...
Mexico considers hybrid tax exemption 9 months ago on AutoblogGreen
It's been 40 years since Mexico began taxing vehicles. Originally, the money was meant to fund the Olympic Games that took place there in 1968, but the income has apparently proven indispensable as it's still collected to this day. If proposed legislation from the Partido Verde Ecologista (a.k.a. ...
Electric Jeep DJ-5E undergoing restoration in Canada 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more high-res shots of the Electruck Back in the '70s (when the Big 3 were really the Big 4), American Motors flirted a bit with electric vehicles. Perhaps their greatest successes came from the Jeep side of the ailing brand. Known internally as the DJ-5E and to the outside world as ...
Bombardier signs $485 million dollar contracts for hybrid locomotives 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Canadian-based train manufacturer Bombardier announced two contracts to supply hybrid locomotives in North-America. According to Bombardier, these two will be the first deliveries of such technology, which uses diesel and/or electricity to power the locomotives. The contracts were signed with the ...
Subaru asks, Pogo or PZEV? 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Subaru doesn't have any hybrids in its line up and its electric car program, based around the R1e, is still in its (seemingly never-ending) infancy, but it does have partial zero-emission vehicles (PZEVs) and , apparently, pogo sticks. In an effort to promote the sale of its PZEV vehicles in ...
Volkswagen now has to decide where to produce diesel and hybrid powertrains 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Last week, Volkswagen of America announced it would build it's first US factory since it's Pennsylvania factory closed in 1984 in Chattanooga Tennessee. The new plant will build a new mid-sized replacement for the Passat. What CEO Stefan Jacoby didn't announce was where powertrains will come from. ...
Nemo found near old Camaro factory site 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
The recent lifting of the low speed vehicle (LSV) ban in Quebec has shone the light of discovery on another electric vehicle manufacturer getting ready to go gangbusters. In Ste.-Therese, Quebec, very close to where the Chevrolet Camaro plant was once located, sits the home of Nemo. Locally ...
High gas prices a bonanza for Zipcar 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
High gas prices have us all feeling the pinch ($65 bucks last night for me), and as you're all well aware, many folks are changing their driving style, the amount of driving they do, or, in some cases, saying good-bye to their cars or trucks entirely. One beneficiary of people's changes of heart is ...
States pay drivers to replace their older cars 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Considering that the legacy left behind by American car companies has little to do with being clean, there seems to be an increased sense of urgency by some U.S. states to replace the older fleet of vehicles with newer, and therefore cleaner, vehicles. The states with the two largest vehicle ...
U.S. mayors call for oil sands boycott 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Oil sands mining transforms the landscape Photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute American mayors attending their annual meeting in Florida this week adopted a resolution that "supports federal legislation that prohibits government use of unconventional or synthetic fuels" derived from CO2-intensive ...
Enerkem and GreenField Ethanol ready for Edmonton waste-to-ethanol plant 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Making fuel from waste is just brilliant. Up in Edmonton, Canada, a company called Enerkem is ready to set up the world's first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility. Hopefullly, the implementation will be as brilliant as the idea. Enerkem and its partner GreenField Ethanol and the ...
Canadian 50-liter challenge finds the most efficient compact 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Back in 2005, when gasoline cost $1 Canadian per liter and it was already considered expensive, Canadian Driver inaugurated the 50-liter challenge. This event highlights the fuel-saving benefits of driving a compact car, and tries to promote an efficient driving style. But why choose 50 liters ...
"Electric fuel station" company gets millions of $$$ 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the hurdles in the way of the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is the ability to pull into a fuel station for a quick fill-up. A "multi-million" dollar injection from Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital could very well give Dutch company Epyon just what it needs to leap over that ...
Diesel Nissan Maxima may be stick-shift only 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the new Maxima for a high-res gallery of 60+ photos According to Yo Usaba, senior veep of powertrains for Nissan, the upcoming clean diesel engine for the next Nissan Maxima may be paired only with a manual transmission. Although the stick would likely be the most efficient transmission ...
Can-Am hosts Inaugural Spyder Homecoming Owner Event in Canada 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for more shots of the Can-Am Spyder We are certain that there are quite a number of people on the roads who don't quite know what to make of the Can-Am Spyder. In case you've forgotten about this unique vehicle, it places two wheels at the front with one in back. Powered by a Rotax ...
Thousands take part in world-wide nude bicycle ride 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you live in a major city on just about anywhere on the planet and had reason to be out and about Saturday afternoon you may have noticed a large group of cyclist causing traffic chaos. It wasn't only that they were on a large group ride, in many cases carrying signs protesting pollution and ...
GM considers the future of the full-size pickup truck 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
It's no secret that the pickup truck market is shrinking, with high gas prices as one obvious culprit. In fact, Toyota's ridiculously popular Camry midsize sedan is nipping at the heels of full-size truck stalwarts such as the Chevy Silverado and Ford F-Series. So far this year, General Motors has ...
Electricity from MARS 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the things you'll hear critics of renewable energy often say is that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. But of course we know that isn't the case. If you go high enough from the earth's surface, the sun never stops shining and though no one has seen it, the wind is ...
Phoenix Motorcars to use Electrovaya batteries? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
In an interesting twist to the saga that is the development of the Phoenix Motorcars electric SUT & SUV program comes news that they are now partnering with a Canadian battery maker. In a press release from that company, Electrovaya says that they are now negotiating an arrangement with Phoenix ...
Wheat being touted in western Canada for ethanol 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
While the United States and the eastern half of our friendly neighbors up north are using corn as the primary feedstock for ethanol and Brazil has been concentrating on sugar cane, the left-half of Canada is considering wheat. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association hopes that the creation ...
