Ford Motor Co. today announced that it would deliver a demonstration fleet of 20 ethanol-fueled hybrid vehicles at the 2007 Washington Auto Show. The Ford Escape Hybrid E85 vehicles were designed to demostrate how to help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Ford Escape Hybrid E85 is the world’s first […]

Ford today unveiled the Ford Edge with HySeries Drive — the world’s first drivable fuel cell hybrid electric plug-in. The Ford Edge with HySeries Drive combines an onboard hydrogen fuel cell generator with lithium-ion batteries. The HySeries Drive powertrain in use in the Edge is the real-world version of the powerplant that was featured in […]

When Ford debuted its Airstream Concept at the Detroit Auto Show, the automaker said that the concept’s unique HySeries hydrogen fuel-cell hybrid system had been installed in an Edge for on road use. And this week, the Ford Edge HySeries Drive was spotted in D.C. just before the city’s auto show. It is only fitting […]

Mitsubishi will begin selling a flex-fuel vehicle in Brazil sometime later this year, and is developing a flex-fuel vehicle for launch in the States sometime in 2009, the company said today. Flex-fuel vehicles account for more than four-fifths of the Brazilian auto market, and are gaining popularity with automakers in the United States.
Mitsubishi states that […]

Ford unveiled its new TwinForce V6 at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. In one of Ford’s biggest announcements, the TwinForce is delivers V8-like horsepower with V6 fuel economy. Ford started with the Duratec 35, one of Ward’s 10 Best Engines, and added direct injection technology and turbocharging to deliver 415-hp and 400 lb-ft of torque, […]

General Motors today unveiled its newest electric vehicle concept, the Chevrolet Volt, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Chevrolet Volt Concept is powered by the E-flex System — GM’s next-generation electric propulsion system.
The Volt is powered by 161-hp electric motor connected to the front wheels, with a 16 kWh capacity lithium-ion […]

For years, hydrogen fuel-cell technology has been viewed as the ideal replacement for the gasoline combustion engine in automobiles. While most industry observers agree some form of hydrogen power (fuel-cell or combustion) will eventually replace gasoline, that timetable has been less than clear. Several hurdles remain, including making the technology affordable, and more importantly having […]

Last week, we reported on Volkswagen’s plans for “independence from fossil-based resources“. As part of those plans, VW revealed several prototype vehicles, including hybrid and fuel-cell technology, and gas- and biofuel-powered cars, resulting from its research into future mass production of cleaner, greener vehicles.
We now have the text of VW’s road map document called ‘Driving the […]

If you wanted to try one of BMW’s Hydrogen 7-Series models, you can forget it, as the automaker has already found a home for each one. BMW has selected influential people and institutions to promote hydrogen cars. The owners of the he free
BMW is manufacturing just 100 units of the dual-fuel 7-Series, and the […]

Volkswagen has unveiled its vision of the internal combustion engine of the future. By combining aspects of diesel and gasoline engines into an engine called the Combined Combustion System (CCS), VW has developed an engine with low emissions and high efficiency. VW showed its new engine in a protoype Touran.
The CCS engine uses piezo injectors, […]