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Chevy Volt gets 230 mpg, but how?

Neither General Motors nor the EPA are making declarative statements about how, exactly, the 2011 Chevy Volt will achieve it's much-touted 230 mpg rating that was announced today. GM's most clear statement (available in full after the break) says that some consumers "may be able to be in pure electric mode on a daily basis without having to use any gas" and that "key to high-mileage performance is for a Volt driver to plug into the electric grid at least once each day." Without access to the actual method that the EPA is tentatively going ... Read more →

Chery plans to launch 5 eco-friendly cars by 2010? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Chinese automaker Chery is on quite a roll these days. Last week at the Shanghai Motor Show, Chery showed off a couple of electric vehicle concepts: the Riich M1 EV and Tiggo 3 EV, both powered ...

Skybus offers 10 seats for $10 on every flight but ... Lascelles Linton

Took a flight this holiday season? How much did you spend? Can you believe you can spend $10 for a flight? You can, with Skybus, a new airline that began flights in May, sells at least 10 tickets on ...

Cracking the physics of traffic jams Sebastian Blanco

If you sit in a some gridlock this holiday season, you might come to the end of the line of cars and realize, hey, there's nothing there. No accident, no police on the shoulder, just a bunch of cars ...

A Christmas with pricier beer? Blame ethanol Sebastian Blanco

Is the ethanol lobby prepared to be the grinch of Christmas present? According to a recent article in The Economist, growing more profitable corn (for the ethanol market ) turned many Pacific ...

Can't wait for a Tesla? You can still get some electric cars this holiday season 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We all know that electric cars are nothing new. I was driving electric cars three decades ago. I even had a whole fleet of them. Of course, they were each only a few inches long and could only run as long as the electricity supply stayed connected. They were, of course, slot cars. Scale model cars ...

Ho, Ho, Huh? High gas prices putting a damper on car sales but not holiday spirit 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In one of the least surprising announcements of the season (coming in not too far behind "It's cold" in most of America), the folks over at Kelley Blue Book Marketing Research are saying that high gas prices are causing many new car shoppers to spend less. The reason, "shoppers spend less on self ...

ABG Top 10: Greenest toy cars for the holidays 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/arts_culture/Top_10_Greenest_toy_cars_for_the_holidays'; It's almost Christmas, so I compiled a list of the top 10 green toy cars for you. Any toy on this top 10 list would be a great gift for that green, gear-head kid (or kid at heart) on your Christmas/holiday ...

Grinch-y! Biofuels increase the price of Christmas trees 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Christmas tree sticker shock in Germany is due in part to biofuels demand, according to HDH, the German timber industry group. Christmas tree land that was lost in order to grow crops for biofuels is a reason given by HDH along with more single person house holds and, of course, demand from China. ...

Santa changes his reindeers for a BMW 1-Series coupe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Christmas is coming and Christmas-based sales campaigns are here. While some might argue (and I agree) that reindeers are, by far, a greener mode of transportation than cars, BMW has decided to use a 1-Series coupé to power Santa's Saint Nikolaus's sled, which is, at least, better than an ...

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