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2010 Nissan Leaf electric car: In person, in depth -- and U.S. bound [*UPDATED w/vids & live photos]

It would be easy to paint Nissan as late to the burgeoning U.S. green party, as the company essentially only counts the Altima Hybrid to sell among its alt-fuel offerings – and that sedan utilizes technology borrowed from Toyota, and it's only sold in a few states in small volumes. While that may be the case, Nissan says their near-term prospects are really quite different. While the company has admittedly been cautious in marketing alt-fuel vehicles in North America, they have been hard at work developing electric vehicles – ... Read more →

Yokohama dB Super E-spec orange oil-infused tires now on sale Jeremy Korzeniewski

Yokohama debuted its new ADVAN ENV-R1 orange oil-infused racing tire at the Porsche GT3 Challenge at Sebring a few months back. At the time, the company promised to have new tires using the ...

VIDEO: Better Place battery swapper demonstrated Domenick Yoney

One minute, 13 seconds. That's how long it took for the whiz-bang battery switcher engineered by Better Place to remove a battery from the undercarriage of its Nissan demonstration SUV and ...

Orange-infused tires perform well at Sebring Jeremy Korzeniewski

Prior to last weekend's race at Sebring, we told you about Yokohama's plan to debut their ADVAN® ENV-R1™, a new kind of tire that uses orange oil to displace about 10 percent of the total ...

Yokohama to debut orange oil race tires at Sebring Sam Abuelsamid

Tire companies like Yokohama have been experimenting in recent years with replacing petroleum in tires with other materials and next week's race weekend at Sebring will see one of these products ...

Yokohama plants 30,000 trees near Hiratsuka Factory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In 2008, if your factories aren't the cleanest in the world, you can always compensate with some kind of carbon-balancing intervention to fix things. Such is the case of tiremaker Yokohama Rubber Company (YRC), which just announced that it's going to plant half a million trees, which equal 25 acres ...

Event notification: 2006 FISITA World Automotive Congress 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

From October 22 to 27, the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies (more commonly known by its French acronym, FISITA) will hold the 31st World Automotive Congress in Yokohama, Japan. The purpose of the event is to "promote the international exchange of information between ...


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