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) [...]

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 [...]

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 offset [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Volvo debuts new turbocharged Flexifuel Police Car

Visitors at today’s GreenFleet Arrive ‘n’ Drive event at Rockingham are able to experience an impressive range of Volvo cars, including the new Volvo V70 2.5 FlexiFuel Turbo (FT) 200bhp police car, developed by Volvo to the specific requirements of the Emergency Services as part of its environmentally-friendly FlexiFuel offer. Joining this new model at [...]

Fiat – lowest CO2 automaker in Europe

Automotive research and analysis firm JATO does an annual assessment of vehicle carbon dioxide emissions in the European Market. For several years, Fiat and Peugeot/Citroen have been going back and forth as the leader. For 2007, JATO’s analysis based on sales put Fiat at the top of the heap among the ten biggest manufacturers that [...]

Volvo ReCharge Will Base Research Plug-In Hybrids

Plug-in hybrid cars are being pointed out as the next step toward sustainable mobility and Volvo has already made a significant breakthrough with the Recharge, a C30-based vehicle that uses one electric engine in each wheel. This sort of technical arrangement will very likely be the one most cars in the future will use, since [...]