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REPORT: Independent Hummer sees alt-fuel model within five years, still looking at H4 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Now that General Motors has officially offloaded the HUMMER brand to Chinese machinery and equipment manufacturer Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd., the next logical question is where does the brand go from here? Perhaps the best person to answer that question would be ...

Institute of Mechanical Engineers: Electric cars aren't enough (w/POLL) 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

According to a recent survey from the Royal Automobile Club Foundation in the UK, there will be lots of people who want to buy electric vehicles but are going to get frustrated by the long delay in getting EVs ready for mass consumption. That's a problem, but the Institute of Mechanical Engineers ...

Money's not there for flex-fuel and other advanced technologies, automakers say 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Here's the thing: American automakers used to fully support E85-capable (aka flex-fuel) vehicles. With a few cheap additions to a standard engine ($100, or thereabouts), a car could get a special badge, drink corn (where available) and get the automaker a bit of goodwill, especially from ...

"Great ethanol scam" can easily cost you $1,000, says BW 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

The undeniable shift towards E15 continues, but not everyone is liking it. Business Week's Ed Wallace has collected a series of anecdotes that shows what he calls the "unpublicized trend" of ethanol destroying fuel systems in America's cars even without the increase to E15. A lot of mechanics are ...

Spy shots: Bentley gets ready to run the 'Ring in the E85 Continental Supersports 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

At the Geneva Motor Show in March, Bentley unveiled its first-ever flex-fuel car, the Continental Supersports. Not only is this car the first production Bentley that will be capable of running on either gasoline of E85 ethanol, it also happens to be the most powerful production Bentley ever, putting ...

GTA Spano supercar makes 840 horsepower on ethanol 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

The massive 8.4L V10 engine from the Dodge Viper has never been short on power. This undeniable fact hasn't stopped enterprising souls from tweaking the powerplant to offer even more, however, and past efforts have focused on doing so through the use of ethanol in lieu of gasoline. That route is ...

Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel to enter production? 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Could the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel enter production? According to a post on Lotus Enthusiast, that's an entirely real possibility due to interest from Youngman Auto, which is the British automaker's Chinese partner. It seems that the Tri-Fuel was a bit hit at the recent Shanghai Motor Show, ...

GM makes the case for testing E15 ethanol blend 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

GM has long been a proponent of using high-level ethanol blend, E85, in motor vehicles. But, with all of the talk of putting E15 or E20 (gasoline with 15 or 20 percent ethanol blended in) into the national supply - see these earlier posts about the EPA, the Minnesota Ag Department, the Secretary of ...

SAE 2009: Honda Titan Mix flex-fuel motorcycle looks good, can burn E100 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Over at the Honda booth on the SAE World Congress expo floor, we spotted a very beautiful motorcycle known as the CG150 Titan Mix. Currently on sale in Brazil, the Titan Mix is the world's first production flex-fuel motorcycle, and it looks great. It's small but not weak, slippery but not ugly, ...

Automakers and utilities reach agreement on plug-standard 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Just days after General Motors put out the call to settle on a plug standard for electric vehicles, it appears that an agreement has been reached - in Europe at least. The plug design will be unveiled at a German technology fair on Monday by energy company RWE. The plug design uses three prongs and ...

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