EcoCar

The Challenge-X student design competition sponsored by General Motors and the Department of Energy is now in the last of a four-year schedule with the final phase coming up in May 2008. The Challenge-X gave teams of engineering students the opportunity to convert a Chevrolet Equinox to an ...

Toyota told Reuters they will join Thailand's plan to be the eco-friendly car production capital of the world. Trying to repair the economic damage to the Thai car industry from the 2006 coup, the Thai government is offering green car makers 50 percent cut in the excise tax, no income tax for 8 ...

First called ACES, the EcoCar project in Thailand is on again. But conflicting forces that killed it a couple years ago might appear again. The idea is to build a low-priced vehicle smaller than the Toyota Yaris or Honda Fit that meet Euro crash standards and gets outstanding fuel economy with low ...