Green Automobiles Blog

With a battery-electric Focus looming just around the corner, now is the perfect time for Ford to craft an interactive means for owners to keep tabs on their electric vehicle. Unsurprisingly, the automaker's done just that: the new MyFord Mobile smartphone application, unveiled earlier this morning at the Consumer ...    Read more

General Motors has spent many years and millions of dollars developing its own lithium-ion battery packs for vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt, but the company isn’t resting on its laurels. In fact, the automaker announced yesterday it created licensing agreement with the Argonne National Laboratory to use an advanced lithium-ion ...    Read more

BMW’s MegaCity electric vehicle has been getting a lot of attention despite the fact that it’s still two years out from going on sale and over a year away from an actual reveal. Not content to let a fellow German competitor hog the spotlight, ...    Read more

With Volkswagen’s takeover of Porsche, Volkswagen Group’s product plans have been shuffled around with arguments about which brand will develop what products. One product development fight that Volkswagen and Audi have now officially denied is over electric vehicles. Reports earlier this week added to the chaos of Volkswagen’s takeover ...    Read more

It’s no secret that Toyota plans on stretching the Prius nameplate, expanding it into a sub-brand with a full model lineup. It turns out that Toyota has high expectations for its future Prius lineup as it believes the hybrids will become its best-selling nameplate in ...    Read more

The Focus Electric, Ford’s first major electric car, will be revealed to us soon but that’s not stopping the marketing team from teasing us with this photo of the front drivers side fender. The paint looks very similar to the Light Ice Blue featured prominently on the Fusion Hybrid and exudes ...    Read more

Tesla never intended its high-profile Roadster electric sports car to financially carry the business. That's what the Model S is for, and the electric vehicle outlet has pegged the magic number at 20,000 sales in order to post profits. Next year will be the current generation Roadster’s final year of ...    Read more

Proving a new hybrid’s fuel economy with some sort of hypermiling challenge seems to have become a new trend as Wayne Gerdes, the professional driver who invented the term hypermiling, just drove a 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid across the country on two tanks of gas, averaging ...    Read more

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In August last year, General Motors announced something seemingly ludicrous: that its 2011 Chevrolet Volt was likely to get a 230 mpg city rating. ...    Read more

Fuel economy regulations have automakers developing plans on how to achieve the stricter goals for cars, but regulations for light trucks have many scrambling to devise a way to shed hundreds of pounds in the name of fuel economy without giving up capability. “It’s a tough task, but we’re ...    Read more

Chinese automaker BYD (Build Your Dreams) will be attending the Detroit Auto Show next month for the fourth consecutive year with its new S6DM hybrid SUV, e6 Premier all-electric MPV, and a "Three Green Dreams" strategy purportedly prepared to bring the Asian vehicles to our side of the ...    Read more

Toyota’s little Yaris hasn’t exactly set the U.S. market sales charts on fire, but it will soon get some help thanks to a refresh for the 2012 model year. We haven’t seen a U.S.-spec Yaris yet, but Toyota has released images and a little info on the Vitz, which is ...    Read more

Most people view Lexus as a conservative luxury brand, building cushy, understated cars and SUVs. Lexus aims to change this image to give the idea of progressive luxury over the next few years. To Lexus, progressive luxury means smart luxury -- where a brand’s social responsibility and green image count as ...    Read more

Dan Ackerson succeeded Ed Whitacre as General Motors’ CEO on September 1 and outlined his goals for the company, which included making GM a technological leader again. According to inside sources, Ackerson told executives to develop a plan to at least triple sales of its electric vehicles by 2015 to ...    Read more

A bright spot from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico comes today from Chevrolet, which announced the automaker is using components from oil-soaked booms in the Volt. General Motors says that about 100 miles of the material will be converted for use in the car.The recycled ...    Read more

With all the talk lately about Chevy's Volt and Nissan's Leaf heading to market, Mercedes-Benz didn't want it to be left out of the alternative powertrain buzz, and to that end, the first F-Cell hydrogen-powered B-Class vehicle was delivered late last week. That ...    Read more

Think isn't just an action requiring cranial capacity, but the name of an electric vehicle builder; and they've sold and delivered their first United States-built City cars.Think, a Scandinavian EV firm, has been in the business since the 1990s and recently invested a great deal of capital to ...    Read more

Honda fought against the electric vehicle movement for a number of years, but has recently admitted that EVs have market potential and announced plans to build such a vehicle by 2012. Next year however, the Japanese manufacturer is launching a demonstration program ...    Read more

The Chevrolet Volt has its first customer, and the winner is retired commercial pilot Jeffrey Kaffee of New Jersey. Mr. Kaffee was actually on vacation this week but made the decision to return early and head straight to Gearhart Chevrolet in Denville, N.J. ...    Read more

Mitsubishi may have just launched its electrified I microcar around the world, but don't expect the company's push towards vehicle electrification to end there. A Mitsubishi spokesman recently suggested each future Mitsu model will be developed with an electric or plug-in hybrid variant in mind. ...    Read more

How much does the privilege of owning one of the first 2011 Chevrolet Volts cost? Somewhere in the neighborhood of $225,000, it seems, since the auction for the first publicly available Volts closed at that figure late last night. ...    Read more