USA: Minnesota Auto Mogul Hecker HQ Raided for Possible Fraud

" June 2009 | by Eric Kelsey The Minnesota State Patrol raided Denny Hecker Automotive Group headquarters in St. Louis Park, along...

Ford teams with Magna to develop All-Electric Car

" DETROIT — Magna International Inc. is making a big leap into the electric vehicle age with a strategic alliance with Ford Motor Co. to supply key engine components for a new battery-powered vehicle. The...

Cops Bust Stool Fool

Ohio man arrested for drunk driving on a homemade vehicle. " MARCH 31--In a law enforcement first, Ohio cops this month arrested a man for drunk driving on a motorized bar stool. That's right, a motorized bar...

Michael Vann Hubbard, Vancouver man shot by police: family sues

It has now been revealed that Michael Vann Hubbard, the man shot to death by Vancouver police last week, was not a criminal and his family are preparing to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver police department. ""My father was not a...

GM to axe 10,000 salaried jobs, cut execs' pay

In a move to cut costs, GM has announced its latest step to pare down its operations ahead of a present restructuring plan.  In the United States, approximately 3,400 of GM's 29,500 salaried employees will 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...

Mahindra sells 1,788 XYLOs in 2 weeks, bookings cross 4,000 mark.

Synopsis: 1,788 Mahindra XYLOs sold between January 16 – January 31, 2009 XYLO bookings cross the 4,000 mark Mahindra ramps up production to meet demand XYLO website registers over 7 lakh hits till date February 2, 2009, Mumbai: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., (M&M),...

US Army to incorporate 4,000 Electric Vehicles by 2011

The US Army has stated that they will be rolling out 4,000 electric vehicles by 2011 to further implement their energy initiatives by reducing consumption, and this Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) program...

2 children killed after van jumps curb in Chinatown New York

Two children have now died and another is in serious condition in hopsital. About 11 people have been injured.A van jumped the curb at 11:31am this morning in Chinatown, New York, killing one child and injuring four or five others. The accident happened in front of 38 East...

The basics of Tyre Burst / Blow Out

1. How To Handle A Tyre Burst:a. What Not To Do:DO NOT PANIC!!Yes… no matter how many times you hear this about everything else in life, its true. If you panic, you tend to hurry and not think clearly and in that you may end up doing one of the following things that you are...

The Mahindra-Renault Logan Mileage Run

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Canada: Steep Sales Drop in 2008 for Detroit Three

Toronto - For the first time in history, less than half the vehicles sold in Canada in 2008 were produced by the Detroit Three automakers.  " Foreign automakers sold 51.2 per cent of vehicles in Canada last year, the first time that the market share of the Detroit Three...

Jassy Pleads Not Guilty In Road Rage Pedestrian Death

As you all know, I love writing news about celebrities and car accidents.  This may be because I am a personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, or just becuase I like reading about the big guy getting knocked down.  Anyways, here is another one you wont see on the...

Rare So Cal Snow Causes Major Traffic and Accidents

So I wake up this morning and see there is snow from Palmdale to Malibu.  Plus a helicopter accident and traffic backed up for hours.  Is this global warming, or global cooling?"December 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) Car accident lawyers in Los Angeles, California have...

Family Furious About Body Found in Impound Lot

The family of a Lakewood, Ohio man is "outraged," and rightly so.  He was killed in a car crash and left dead in the car when it was towed away.  The body was not found until two days later by the family, after filing a missing persons report and tracing him back to...

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