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Paris business district will test self-driving NEVs in busy square

If you think that crossing la Défense square on foot is tiring, you'll be glad to know that you might soon be able to do it while sleeping. How, you ask? Because Paris' largest business district is going to test self-guiding NEVs on the square soon. Hervé Bonnat, Director of the Etablissement Public de Gestion de la Défense (EPGD), the public group that manages la Défense, has announced a test involving several Cycab models, self-guiding NEVs developed by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et ... Read more →

Peugeot BB1 spotted in its natural habitat...France [w/VIDEO] Domenick Yoney

After enduring some amount of scorn and ridicule at the recently held Frankfurt Motor Show, the bizarre (and we're being kind) BB1 concept from Peugeot hasn't quietly disappeared graciously from ...

New train-sponsored carpool system comes to Paris Xavier Navarro

SNCF, the public company that manages the French railway system, has launched a new carpool service. Aimed at people who live in the large Paris metropolitan area and use the commuter train system, ...

Smart ED on view in Paris soon, but driving one will have to wait Xavier Navarro

2009 Smart ED - Click above for high-res image gallery Parisians will be able to meet the smart ED in person from September 11-16 at the city Hôtel de Ville (City Hall). Despite persistent ...

Fed-Ex adding small electric vehicles to Paris fleet Domenick Yoney

It seems those Urban-Cabs we told you about last year aren't just handy for hauling tourists about "La Ville-Lumière." Apparently, once they are adorned with the famous FedEx logo, they ...

Paris' electric vehicle car-sharing system put on hold 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced an all-new EV public rental service, called Auto'lib, one year ago. Inspired by successful public bike rental system Ve'lib and the German Car2Go system (pictured above), the idea was that you could rent an electric car for short trips in the city. ...

Paris tests a new hybrid bus that uses ultracapacitors 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

RATP, the public-owned company that manages most of Paris' public transport system, is currently performing tests using a hybrid bus outfitted with ultracapacitors. For now, the test buses are passenger-free. The model, called Lion's City Hybrid, is supplied by German manufacturer MAN and the ...

Paris launches online map of EV charging stations 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

You might expect a city's future (or current) EV charging network to be quite dense. I think it's also reasonable to expect charging stations to be easy to find. Paris now makes this a reality. If you look at the map above, which can be found on the City Hall's official webpage, you can see that ...

Do you want an electric ride? Paris will give you ?400 to head to the store 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Do you live in Paris and want to buy a two-wheeled EV? If so, you are eligible to receive €400 (or up to 25 percent of the purchase price) for an all-electric scooter. You might wonder which electric scooter models are currently available in France. There's the neo-retro eSolex, a few EVTs ...

Paris 2008: Peugeot-Citroen HYmotion4 hybrid drive system 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Traditionally, automakers use the biggest auto shows in their home countries as a platform to display their latest and greatest ideas, both aesthetic and technological. Such was clearly the case this week at the Paris Motor Show for PSA, the parent company of Peugeot and Citroën. One of ...

VIDEO: Live reveal of Honda Insight and a new company blog 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Honda this week launched its first blog in conjunction with the debut of the new Insight concept in Paris. If Honda's usual practice and the spy photos we've seen are any indication, the concept Insight that is on the show stand right now will be almost identical to the production model coming ...

Paris 2008: Peugeot Prologue HYmotion4 diesel hybrid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Peugeot's Prologue HYmotion4 concept is in many ways the opposite of the same company's RC HYmotion4 concept. The upright crossover style Prologue is a different animal from the sleek four-door coupe. Both vehicles use the same through the road hybrid architecture but flipped front/rear. The ...

Paris 2008: Peugeot RC HYmotion4 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The RC HYmotion4 concept unveiled by Peugeot at the Paris Motor Show is just one of several hybrid drive concepts being shown by that brand and Citroen. All of these feature an interesting new through the road hybrid system that I'll write more about later. The RC is a four-door GT coupe that ...

Ferraris greener than Priuses? Statistics to the rescue again! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At some point everyone has probably heard the phrase "Tell me which side of the argument you are on and I will give you the statistics to prove you are right!" That is certainly true when applied to comments made by Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa at the Paris Motor Show this week. While speaking to ...

Renault to launch Fluence sedan in 2009, electric version in 2011 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Renault on Thursday revealed the third generation C-segment Megane at the Paris Motor Show. The sedan version of the old Megane will be replaced by a new sedan in 2009 called Fluence. The Fluence will start off using conventional drivertrains, but two years after introduction, it will go electric. ...

Paris 2008: Video of Saab 9-X Air and designer Mark Adams 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You can check out a video of the Saab 9-X Air in action along with some discussion with GM Europe Design VP Mark Adams after the jump. Like the 9-X BioHybrid we saw at Geneva last spring, the Air is based on GM's compact Delta platform and it uses a variant of the same 1.4L Family 0 four ...

Paris 2008: Citroen C4 WRC HYmotion4 hybrid rally car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Citroën today became the first manufacturer competing in the World Rally Championship to announce a hybrid drive WRC competitor. The C4 WRC HyMotion4 adds an electric kinetic energy recovery system to the C4 WRC. A 125kW electric motor generator is geared to the rear axle of the ...

Paris 2008: Debut of the Opel Insignia EcoFlex 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Opel has added a special low fuel consumption ecoFlex model to the expanding mid-size Insignia lineup. The new Insignia that debuted this summer is the replacement for the mid-sized Vectra and the first product off GM's Epsilon II platform. The newest addition to the family uses GM's new 2.0L ...

Paris 2008: Mazda Kiyora city car concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Mazda is using its new Kiyora city car concept as a platform to demonstrate how it plans to achieve fuel efficiency improvements of 30 percent in the next few years. The Kiyora takes the design themes seen on recent Mazda concepts like the Furai and Ryuga and applies it to a 12.4 ft long ...

Paris 2008: Renault Z.E. concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Renault has rolled out a new concept in Paris today that gives a preview of what we might expect when Project Better Place kicks off in a couple of years. The Z.E. Concept is based on the Kangoo Be Bop that is also debuting at the Paris Show. The Z.E. Concept however is propelled purely by ...

Paris 2008: Chevrolet Orlando MPV debuts 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Chevrolet has fully taken the wraps of the new Orlando compact people mover for its debut at the Paris Motor Show. We still don't know for sure if the Orlando will be offered here in North America, but the rest of the world will get this compact seven seater. For its debut in Paris, the Orlando ...

Paris 2008: GTbyCITROEN fuel cell concept brings video game to life 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GTbyCITROEN In Paris today, Citroën revealed a new concept called the GTbyCITROEN. Reportedly inspired by a car in the Gran Turismo 5 racing game, the GT lives up to the peculiar standards of a brand that is considered an oddball even by French standards. Citroën's press release is ...

Paris 2008: Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion II, 57.4 mpg mid-size wagon! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

How would you like to have a mid-sized sedan or station wagon that gets over 57 mpg (U.S.)? That's exactly what Volkswagen has unveiled in Paris as the Passat BlueMotion II. It's being shown as a further evolution of the latest Passat BlueMotion, part of VW's lineup of cars optimized for low CO2 ...

Paris 2008: Officially, official Audi A1 Sportback concept 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Audi has released the official details on its new A1 Sportback concept that debuts at the Paris Motor Show. At 13.09 ft long, the A1 is a couple of inches longer than a MINI Clubman and features a hybrid drivetrain. Power comes from a 150 hp TFSI four cylinder with turbocharging and direct ...

Paris Preview: Audi A1 Sportback hybrid concept leaks out 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The leakage leading up to the Paris Motor Show continues as the first pics of the new Audi A1 Sportback have surfaced. The A1 Sportback is likely what the production version of Audi's new small car will look like when it hits the streets in 2010. The A1 is about a foot shorter than the Golf-based ...

Paris Preview: South African Joule electric MPV to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The first images of the Joule from Optimal Energy have now turned up on the interwebs. The Joule will be officially unveiled this week in Paris at the Motor Show. The six-seat hatchback stores energy in a lithium ion battery pack that can nominally propel it for about 120 miles. A second pack can be ...

Paris Preview: Volkswagen Passat BlueTDI sedan and wagon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen will be debuting a new BlueTDI version of the mid-sized Passat at the upcoming Paris Motor Show. The BlueTDI Passat uses the same 2.0L common rail injected turbodiesel as the new U.S.-spec Jetta TDI. However, unlike the smaller Jetta which can meet NOx reduction requirements with a lean ...

Paris Preview: BMW releases more details on 7-series active hybrid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

BMW has released more details on the 7-Series Activehybrid that will be debuting in Paris next month. We now know a few elements that differ from the Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid. While the Mercedes has the lithium ion battery mounted in the engine compartment, the BMW has its battery in the ...

Paris Preview: BMW 7-Series ActiveHybrid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After revealing the new generation 7-series earlier this summer, BMW will be showing off the full lineup at the Paris Motor Show including the hybrid version. We knew a 7-series hybrid was coming soon but it had been thought the 7 would use the same Two-Mode hybrid system that will go into the X6. ...

Paris Preview: More Saab 9-X Air details revealed 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the Paris Motor Show in a couple of weeks, Saab will be showing a companion to the 9-X BioHybrid concept that came out at the Geneva show last spring. The 9-X Air takes the same platform, powertrain and body from the belt-line down but lops the top off to make a compact four-seat ...

Paris Preview: Joule from Optimal Energy sure to dazzle 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Optimal Energy is the latest company to announce that they are unveiling a new electric car at the Paris Motor Show this year and it's one that should definitely impress. Coming all the way from South Africa, the Joule may very well be the world's most practical electric car to date as well as one ...

Paris Preview: 4-door Audi A1 concept expected to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

After showing the A1 Metroproject concept at last year's Tokyo Motor Show, Audi is reportedly planning to reveal a four-door variant in Paris next month. The production version of the A1 will go into production in 2009 at an Audi factory in Brussels, Belgium. Audi will be targeting the A1 at ...

Paris Preview: Venturi and Michelin to unveil electric vehicle collaboration 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This year's edition of the Paris Motor Show is shaping up to be quite a collection of ecological innovation, ranging from the presently practical to the futuristically fanciful. The just-announced vehicular offspring from a Michelin and Venturi collaboration is bound to fall into the later ...

Paris Preview: Renault Ondelios diesel hybrid crossover, 52.3 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Ondelios for a high res gallery Renault is taking the wraps off a new diesel hybrid crossover at the Paris Motor Show next month. The gull-winged Ondelios is described by Renault as an "environmentally friendly long-haul journey." The nearly 16 ft-long, three-row six-seater has an ...

Paris Preview: Mazda introducing new, smarter Smart Idle Stop System 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Automatic start-stop systems for engines are becoming increasingly common on vehicles in Europe. However, these systems typically use the conventional starter motor to re-start the engines after a stop. This can result in slow re-starts and additional load on the starter. Mazda has devised a new ...

Paris Preview: Mazda to introduce new 2.2L diesel engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the Paris Motor Show next month, Mazda will be showing off its new 2.2L MZR-CD clean diesel engine that will be installed in the Mazda 6. The new engine is rated at 182 hp and yields 42 mpg (U.S.). One of the interesting elements of the new engine is a Mazda-developed diesel particulate filter ...

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