French motorwonk savages hybrid cars
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Je crache sur le Prius, voiture des puanteurs A French automotive-industry researcher has published an attack on hybrid cars, suggesting that they aren't a good sustainable way to save the planet and will prevent other technologies from developing.â¦
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Stamping camembert with a "carbon footprint" rating. Charging Parisians for the empty Bordeaux bottles they discard. Banning high speeds through the pasture-lined highways of the Loire Valley.
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France's biggest carmaker, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, unveiled a new system on Tuesday to reduce emissions and save fuel by allowing drivers to cut their engines when they are not moving.
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Honda introduced the gas-electric car to America, but Toyota's Prius became the synonym for 'hybrid.' Here's how Honda hopes to regain its enviro street cred.
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BMW and DaimlerChrysler plan to co-develop luxury-model hybrid for market by 2010. Plus: Green Car Journal picks two "clean" diesels among the top five greenest cars. In Autopia.
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European carmakers are hoping that diesel power will become an alternative to the hybrid cars popularized by Toyota and others.
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Amid the automotive weirdness that typifies the Tokyo Motor Show, there are to be found a few truly stirring examples of mechanical art. Honda's EVO6 concept bike is just such a machine: It looks truly evil.
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Swedish furniture chain Ikea  announces it its to replace its company car fleet with hybrid vehicles.
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Hot air now figuring prominently in debate The struggle among motor-industry biggies regarding who can seem the greenest (while simultaneously not actually doing very much about carbon emissions) continues. Toyota and GM are vying for supremacy in the plug-in hybrid stakes, Ferrari has dipped a toe in biofuel, and out of left field come French and Indian contenders with a car powered by compressed air.â¦
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Hybrid engines manufactured by General Motors Corp. will be used to power some buses in California&#39;s Yosemite National Park -- a move aimed at curbing emissions in the pristine reserve.
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Readers remark on the hybrid car battle, the coming election and Netvibes widgets. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts.
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The Paris Motor Show will roar into life next Saturday when international car makers converge on the French capital hoping to wow crowds with prototype models and woo critics with green technologies.
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Cool concept cars from Toyota and Honda compete with slick new designs from Lotus and Aston Martin. Bruce Gain reports from Geneva.
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Three gasoline-electric hybrids, the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, and Nissan Altima, are rated among the "greenest" cars of 2007 in the 10th annual "greenest" and "meanest" rankings released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
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One of the biggest motor shows in the world is set to take place in Paris this week -- but not before the city makes another display of its crusade against the car that it hopes will transform the capital into ...
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Detroit needs to get its hybrid rear in hybrid gear.
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The EU environment commissioner is happy with his Japanese-made hybrid car, but the search for an even greener choice goes on.