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Gas-siphoning HUMMER leads police on high-speed chase

After Pittsburgh police noticed a Hummer (yep, a Hummer... what else?) sitting conspicuously close to a five-hundred gallon tank of gas at a golf course, the vehicle suddenly took off. Considering that the top speed of a Hummer is right around one-hundred miles per hour, we can safely say that the driver was giving it all he had in an attempt to get away. The high-speed chase ended as the Hummer smashed into a tree and rolled several times in a nearby parking lot. The eighteen-year-old-driver sustained leg injuries which required a hospital ... Read more →

KBB survey shows new-car buyers spend less money on other items Jeremy Korzeniewski

The Kelley Blue Book seems to track nearly everything related to cars and transportation. We recently became aware that a new KBB survey indicated that consumers are changing their car-buying habits ...

More coal to liquid fuels research from Penn State Jeremy Korzeniewski

Penn State University has really been on a green roll these last few days, getting three stories featured on our site. One had to do with a novel way to extract hydrogen from water using ...

Gasoline: the newest biofuel? Maybe, if LS9 is successful. Jeremy Korzeniewski

What if we could speed up the process of making petroleum for use in our automobiles? Even better: what if we could just produce all of the hydrocarbons we need when we need them? Would we then have ...

Toyota to start offering flex-fuel models in Brazil Jeremy Korzeniewski

I'll admit that I was mildly surprised to read that Toyota was going to start offering flexible fuel vehicles for sale in Brazil soon. Well, let me clarify that: I was surprised to hear the Toyota ...

HCCI: Combining gasoline and diesel combustion 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The New York Times has a nice summary on a form of combustion all major automakers are actively pursuing, called HCCI, short for homogenous charge compression ignition. HCCI was discovered quite some time ago through investigation of so-called "run-on", the continued running of an engine after the ...

Dubious fuel tip debunked 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

While posting in his blog about ways to increase fuel economy, der5er goes into considerable depth covering the offbeat tip of buying your gas in the morning instead of the afternoon. The theory goes that fuel is denser in cooler temperatures and that you get more fuel for your money if pump in the ...

First Indian Hybrid 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

On the coat tails of the Mexican hybrid we reported on a few days ago, a group of seven mechanical engineering students of the Delhi College of Engineering claim to have invented India’s first gasoline-electric hybrid car. The car will make it to U.S shores, as it will participate in the ...

New engine design: cheap and efficient. 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

A group of MIT professors have invented a new type of ethanol-boosted, turbocharged, gasoline engine that promises to be almost as efficient as a gas-electric hybrid, but at a much lower cost. The main idea behind the concept is to reduce fuel consumption by reducing engine size, adding turbo ...


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