First photos of the official Chevy Volt

Unpublished photos that were snatched off of a General Motors media website by TheCarConnection.com, show several members of the Volt design team posing with the car. The unveiling wasn’t expected until next week. GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, who has made development of the revolutionary hybrid car a priority for the troubled automaker, is [...]

Toyota Prius production increase

Toyota aims to produce 70 percent more Prius hybrids after a planned remodeling next year, bringing annual output to at least 480,000 units, the Nikkan Kogyo industry daily reported on Friday.
Toyota now builds most of the hot-selling gasoline-electric cars at its Tsutsumi factory in central Japan and another plant belonging to affiliate Toyota Auto Body. [...]

BMW M Models will use hybrid technology

BMW is realizing that even the most powerful cars on the market need to get greener. After talking about a V6 turbocharged engines for future M models to cut CO2 emissions, BMW has now announced hybrid-drive is also under consideration.
BMW M GmbH is reportedly considering hybrid-drive in the long-term. Currently, output of conventional combination of [...]

Volvo Enters WTCC with C30 Green Racer

Volvo has announced they have decided to enter their E85 powered Volvo C30 racer in the WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) at Brands Hatch on the 26 – 27th of July.
After securing three out of seven pole positions and leading close to half of all laps driven in the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) this [...]

GM Volt unveiling

General Motors Corp is rushing to finish the production version of its Chevy Volt and plans to unveil a showroom-ready model of the heavily touted electric car in September, people familiar with the project say.
Battered by a deepening slump in sales and concerns about whether it can ride out the downturn, GM is counting on [...]

RhinoTuning goes Carbon Neutral

RhinoTuning the UK’s fastest growing vehicle personalisation and tuning company today announced that by 1st August 2008 all its operations and products will be carbon neutral. Rhino have led the market with in many innovations and Carbon Neutral status is another step in this process. Carbon neutral status will be achieved by a carbon [...]

Hybrid Gumpert to Race at 24 Hours Nurnburgring

A green car for the Green Hell, Gumpert will be entering an electric-petrol hybrid race car into the next 24 Hours Nurnburgring this May. The race car is based on the Gumpert Apollo and will be piloted by ex-Formula 1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Dirk Muller.
The Hybrid Apollo uses both an 100 kW electric motor [...]

First Chevy Volt Prototype Hits the Road and Gets 40 Miles Electric!

General Motors inched closer to making the Chevrolet Volt a reality in November 2010 as the vehicle’s innovative gas-electric powertrain is being test-driven for the first time on public roads and is hitting its target of 40 miles on pure electric power.
“Today is a big day,” GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz told Edmunds’ AutoObserver in [...]