BYD unveiled last week several technologies to improve fuel efficiencies by more than 20 percent in all its 2014 vehicle line-up. The company is calling it the “Green Hybrid.” There are several breakthroughs said to be tied to the “Green Hybrid …

Yet despite “Toyota”and “Hybrid” being siamese twins attached at the hip, they never managed to offer a convincingly mass-market hybrid in Europe. I'm talking about a car that everybody wants and can buy for no other reason besides it being the right …

CA, MA & NY Are Fastest Growing Diesel Car States . . . SC, TN, KY & MS Are Fastest Growing Hybrid Car States . . . TX Is #1 In Total Diesel Passenger Vehicles & #1 In Diesel Pickup Trucks . . . WY, MT, ID & AK Have Highest Percentage of Diesel …

The Japanese automaker, which said Wednesday it had sold 5.125 million hybrid vehicles as of the end of March, started selling the Prius, the world’s first mass produced hybrid passenger car, in 1997. Gas-electric hybrids deliver fuel efficiency by …

SHANGHAI, April 20 (Reuters) – China is warming to gasoline-electric hybrid cars as it tackles an addiction to fossil fuels, and local car makers are finally heeding the call and entering a niche 'green' market dominated by Japanese rivals such as …

Last summer, Synapse Sustainability Trust paid to replace 68 electric vehicle charges in Syracuse and Rome because they failed to charge individual customers for usage. Now a Miami group has bought the trust's car charging effort, and the state has …

Since January, 2012, BMW has been field-testing 700 electric ActiveE cars. Now the company wants you to see what sort of mileage and data those experimental cars are accumulating, and on Thursday rolls out an online digital tool it calls “Electronaut …

“What we are doing with our hybrid air technology is as soon as you’re just braking or just decelerating, you are able to store the energy very quickly,” he said. “Compressed air, which is a new way of looking at energy storage in a hybrid car.” The …

Cars pollute, kill the planet and generally are not that green are they not? Here is the latest news from the world of the eco-friendly electric cars trying to prove the car hater wrong. The limited edition Micro-Vett electric 500 is an electric, eco version of the famous Fiat 500. This little green-mobile has a [...]

With all the hype and then subsequent let down of the electric car movement many people are beginning to wonder if these cars will ever become mainstream or if they will remain the occasional oddity on the road. Many gas-electric hybrids by companies like Toyota, Ford, Lexus and Mercury are already enjoying some success, but [...]

Europe has umpteen Electric motorcar motorcars seen on numerous roadways, normally in the chockablock cities or urban regions where getting around town is a bit distinct than it is in the US. On the other hand, the Electric motorcar motorcars being manufactured today are not like the ones of a few ages back that could [...]