Hybrid Cars Are a Losing Proposition: No Apologies

With the high cost of developing and producing hybrid cars, it has to be a losing proposition in this global economic downturn. The rush to roll these off the line has caused the prices of petrol powered cars to go...

Jaguar Puts Skids On Hybrids, Fiat Abarth at LA Auto Show, New Ch

Jaguar says it's going to concentrate on AWD Architecture. Fiat introduces US Market 500 Abarth at the LA Auto Show and Chevrolet unveiled it's Daytona prototype named the Corvette DP.http://youtu.be/JfYwVi2re-E

Jaguar C-X16 Concept: Frankfurt Motor Show

Jaguar has knocked one out of the park with their Frankfurt Motor Show bound C-x16 Concept. We will bet money that this will see production and fairly soon. This could be the star of the...

Cadillac Ciel Concept:Exclusive Pebble Beach Video

Cadillac teased the media and the public with it's Ciel Concept. Both it and the Cadillac Converj made there showing at Pebble Beach on Friday. The jury's way out on the front end of this design study by Cadillac....

New BMW i8 Hybrid Concept Video Review

The new BMW i8 hybrid supercar seems to be headed for production. With a 0-62 MPH of 4 seconds and a governed top speed of 158 MPH, it deserves a real look. It will make its debut as a running car in the new...

New Aston Martin AM V12 Concept Car

Sabino Leerentveld has penned another Aston Martin based concept car. The exotic manufacturers all fight to have bragging rights on the best super car or "Hypercar". These cars, like the Bugatti Veyron are...

We tend to do stupid things, like buy diesel cars

You may disagree with what I am about to say but I hate diesel cars. Yes, maybe they are more economical, and, actually, yes, they are but I can't stand them. And that's despite the fact my dad owns even two of...

Zedonk Born at Chestatee Wildlife Preserve, Georgia (Photo)

A Zedonk, Which is a Hybrid Between a Zebra and a Donkey, Has Been Born in Dahlonega Georgia The baby Zedonk has black and white stripes on its legs like a zebra and a brown short-haired body like a donkey, and...

911 GT3 R goes intelligent

Could you ever thought about Porsche being a hybrid? Neither could I but Germans decided it's time to be more economical. So they created a hybrid. The new 911 GT3 R is due to be officially launched in Geneva...

Breakthrough battery can charge up in seconds

" Scientists in the United States have invented a battery that can charge in seconds, promising a revolution in power storage that could also help green cars and renewable energy. The advance allows lithium-ion...

Hybrid Hype

Thinking about innovation? Than let’s innovate the right things. The environment will suffer from the economic downturn that soon will become a global depression.Much is written about tailpipe CO2 that should be...

Power-generating shock absorbers

This is brilliant!  It is almost free energy that we can tap without any major modifications.  Add in improved thin film solar panels and we could eventually end up with electric cars that use very little external energy!  " Shock absorbers tapped to...

A bright idea: Hybrid cars could be energy-storage units

by Tracy Davis | The Ann Arbor News Monday November 24, 2008, 1:14 PM Scientists at the University of Michigan are rethinking the role of electric cars in the future. What if, instead of sucking up resources, those cars could serve as storage for alternative energy, and...

Supercar runs on water

Supercar runs on water - Mark NicholThis is the RMC Scorpion, the American supercar unveiled at SEMA 2008 this week. And though it might look like a run-of-the-mill motor show supercar, with its 20-inch chrome...

North America's Only Road Rally Underway in Newfoundland

The seventh annual Targa Newfoundland, a 2,200-kilometre rally through eastern and central part of Newfoundland, is underway. The rally, which consists of sports cars racing on public roads, is the only...

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