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0Detroit 2008: More photos than you can shake a stick at 1201136760
The Detroit Auto Show is open to the public this week. If you're the type of person who really wants to be there, but can't find the time or money to arrive, allow me to present you with a viable alternative. Sure, we already brought you news about the green cars that were revealed or are on ...
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Cool videos of Mazda's Furai, the ethanol-fueled racing car concept 1200862020
The first video below the fold is Mazda's Director of Design, Franz von Holzhausen talking about the Furai concept at the Detroit Auto Show. The Furai is a racing concept that runs on E100 (100 percent ethanol) and the car's design is inspired by the wind. The video includes a look at a really cool ...
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Videos: Toyota's self-driving electric car, GM's paint shop goes green 1200773040
Lori Harfenist, a really funny vlogger, was hired by GM to cover the Detroit Auto Show and she filed a report all about green stuff. You can watch Lori interview a GM's color and pigments designer, NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon, Designer: Project Runway winner Jeffrey Sebelia and Def Jam Founder Russell ...
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Bob Lutz explains exactly why Volt delayed: batteries late, engineers want perfect software 1200663960
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Detroit 2008: Bill Ford talks about hybrids, EcoBoost and sustainability 1200611940
During the Detroit Auto Show, a Ford press liaison invited AutoblogGreen and around a dozen other journalists to an on-the-record dinner to talk about sustainability and related topics. As a guy who writes for AutoblogGreen, I couldn't help but notice that every single person around the dinner ...
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Jesse James to break land speed record in hydrogen car but says Gore is still "a dork" 1200585960
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/celebrity/Call_HIM_a_Treehugger_He_would_kick_my_a'; Michigan Live caught up with popular custom bike maker and host of Monster Garage, Jesse James, at the Detroit Auto Show Wednesday. Jesse was at AutoWeek's annual design forum awards dinner promoting recycling and ...
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Detroit 2008: Dodge ZEO BEV concept live reveal 1200520140
click the ZEO for a high-res gallery from DetroitThe Dodge ZEO lies somewhere between it's Jeep and Chrysler concept siblings in aesthetic terms. Like its siblings, the ZEO gets drive torque exclusively from an electric motor, although this one relies entirely on electrons retrieved from an ...
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Bob Lutz video: it's "immaterial" who's first on EVs, guarantees "internal" release date for Volt 1200441780
The video above is GM chairman Bob Lutz eating a little crow on Bloomberg Television. In the past, Bob has said GM would beat Toyota by "a year" in the lithium-ion battery race. Now, that Toyota has said they will release lithium-ion plug-in hybrids ahead of GM's new EVs, Bob does not want to play ...
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Detroit 2008: Volkswagen Passat CC to launch TSI engines in US market 1200429360
click the Passat CC for a high res galleryVolkswagen has been offering their 1.4L TSI engine range in several of their European models for the past several years but has yet to make them available in the U.S. The TSI engines are reduced displacement, turbocharged direct injection engines that offer ...
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Detroit 2008: Mercedes-Benz E320 BlueTec is only sort of 50-state legal 1200426480
Back in October, Mercedes-Benz made something of a splash in California when they re-introduced the E320 to the California market. It was the first new diesel available in the state in over two years. However, it now appears that the E320 BlueTec is not actually technically legal in California or ...

