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A US district court judge in California threw out a class-action lawsuit from owners of Toyota Prius and Lexus HS 250h hybrids who had filed a claim against the Japanese automaker over a 2010 recall involving the vehicles' anti-lock braking system, Bloomberg News reports. The claim, made by four ...

Earlier this month, Tesla Motors announced a software update for its Model S all-electric luxury sedan. No less an authority than our old friend Damon Lavrinc over at Wired has blessed the upgrade. Lavrinc calls Tesla's upgrades a "solid, feature-rich update" that overcomes what had been ...

"Wow, this car really is quiet." While that could be the response of someone new to riding in the Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug in hybrid, the fact is that Chevy parent General Motors is addressing an issue where the car's engine shuts down abruptly, a time when anyone would wish for a bit ...

Even if you can add fuel to your electric car to go for hundreds of miles, they're not fun if you don't have a good soundtrack. Fisker has enacted its second recall on its Karma in less than a month, this time for a software issue that causes the extended-range plug-in hybrid's entertainment and ...

Massachusetts-based Clean Energy Innovations (CEI) was recently awarded the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Emerging Business grand prize for its innovative software system that supposedly enhances the performance of mobile phone batteries. What's that got to do with automobiles? Well, ...

Competition is a good thing and you'd be hard pressed to find a more competitive segment in the car industry than full-size trucks. Ford, General Motors and, to a lesser extent, Chrysler are continuously trying to outdo each ...

In terms of efficiency, cars driven by humans are fickle. There's only ever one optimal accelerator position for the best fuel efficiency, no matter what gear you're in. This leads to the situation where the imprecise driving of humans is responsible for lowered fuel efficiency and performance. But ...