Green Car Report
Sexiest Fuel-Efficient Cars May 16th, 2008
Not All Hybrids Are Shaped Like Eggs -- Check Out These Supercars
For the last week of May, the Sexiest Green Car Show returns to the Eden Project, the UK's "living theater of plants and people." Why would a place that features a million plants representing 5,000...more
FuelFrog Tracks Your Gas Mileage via Twitter May 16th, 2008
Plus a Biofuels Chart to Make You Feel Smarter
Send FuelFrog the miles you traveled on your last tank of gas, the price you paid, and the number of gallons of your next fill-up, and it will track your mileage. Once you've signed up...more
NASCAR Pays a Whopping $6.25 a Gallon for Gas May 12th, 2008
Transportation and Track Tests are Squeezing Teams' Wallets
While most of us are coordinating ride shares and hopping on our bikes to save money on gasoline, what are people who drive -- and drive fast -- for a living doing? Drafting, sure, but...more
Record Month for Selling Gas-Saving Cars Getting Better than 30 MPG May 9th, 2008
SUV Sales Fell, Small Cars Selling Like Gangbusters
April 2008 was a month of records for the auto industry. For the first time, one in five cars driven off U.S. lots was a compact or subcompact car. Also for the first time, gas-saving...more
15 Tips for Better Mileage -- Want to Get 70 MPG in Your Toyota Prius? May 7th, 2008
Hypermiling Techniques for Everyone -- Extra Tips for Hybrids
In a summer of $4-a-gallon gas predictions and $120-plus barrels of oil, we'll be hearing a lot about hypermiling. But what is it? Who can use it? Does it require a Prius to make it...more
100 MPG in a Prius: Hacking a Hybrid May 5th, 2008
Illinois Brothers Do a Plug-In Conversion -- And You Can, Too!
Brothers Chris and Andrew Ewert of Wheaton, Illinois, converted their standard-issue Prius to a plug-in hybrid that gets more than 100 miles per gallon by installing a battery array and charger in the rear cargo...more
800-Hp Hybrid to Race at Nurburgring May 2nd, 2008
The Gumpert Apollo Supercar Will Take on the 24-Hour Race
According to a recent post on Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur's web site, its Apollo hybrid supercar will take on the 24-hour race at the legendary Nurburgring track in Germany May 22-25. The car that will take its...more
All-Hybrid Taxi Fleet on Its Way in NYC April 29th, 2008
But did you know NYC Had an All-Electric Fleet Back in 1896?
In May 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that all NYC taxis would be hybrid by 2012. The city is on its way toward that goal a year later, though a bit off...more
Definition of Irony: Hybrid Truck for Pit Mining April 28th, 2008
GE Tests Gas-Electric Hybrid Dump Truck
I was innocently surfing the Internets, like I do every day, looking for the latest in alternative-fuel advancements. Electric scooters, breakthroughs in cellulosic ethanol, greener race cars. The usual. But I was stopped in my...more
Car Makers Face Stricter Fuel Efficiency Rules April 25th, 2008
Can They Produce Autos that Get 37 MPG (up from 25 now) by 2015?
On Earth Day this week, Secretary Mary Peters of the Transportation Department announced a proposal that would require car makers to raise average fuel efficiency at a faster pace than Congress asked for last December....more
