Want to win a 2010 Toyota Prius? Get in line at the Chicago Auto Show

Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota , Chicago Auto Show , Green Daily , USA 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery We’ll be on hand next month at the Chicago Auto Show , covering the goings-on at the event as usual.

Honda: Insight "too small," likely to miss sales targets, Fit Hybrid a ’struggle’

Filed under: Hybrid , Honda 2010 Honda Insight - Click above for high-res image gallery Honda Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo doesn’t seem to think that the automaker will hit its worldwide sales goal of 200,000 Insight Hybrids in its first year on the market.

Volvo introduces new direct injected, turbocharged 2.0-liter GTDi

Filed under: MPG , Volvo Volvo 2.0-liter GTDi engine - Click above for high-res image gallery Direct injection and turbocharging go together like peanut butter and jelly. Abbot and Costello. Brett Favre and protracted retirement negotiations

Tesla to kill the Roadster in 2011, new version coming in 2013

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , Lotus , Tesla Motors , Green Daily Tesla Roadster - Click above for high-res image gallery You read that right. Tesla Motors will stop building the Roadster in 2011. Wired ’s Autopia was digging through the papers filed by Tesla to the Securities and Exchange Commission for its IPO and came across with this nugget: “We do not plan to sell our current generation Tesla Roadster after 2011 due to planned tooling changes at a supplier for the Tesla Roadster.” As everyone’s aware, the current iteration of the Tesla Roadster is built in Hethel, England by Lotus using Elise / Exige underpinnings.

Tesla files with the feds for IPO

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Legislation and Policy , USA Tesla Model S - click above for high-res image gallery For the first time in more than fifty years, a U.S. automaker is holding a public offering.

Greenlings: Can racing really be green?

Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Racing , Greenlings Humans are competitive creatures who have raced against each other in one form or another for millennia. The practice that likely evolved from hunting and the struggle to survive has adapted to advances in technology over time, moving from foot races to eventually involve vehicles such as chariots and boats until, at the end of the 19th century, the automobile was invented and a new era began

It’s Friday: Betty Boop fills up on corn dripp’ns

Filed under: Etc. , Ethanol Betty Boop in Musical Mountaineers - Click above to watch video after the jump Might we have discovered the earliest example of cartoon biofuel

DOE reduced loan total for Leaf electric vehicle at Nissan’s request

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Nissan , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Legislation and Policy 2010 Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery Where did 200 million dollars go? When Nissan and Department of Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced yesterday that the DOE had closed (i.e., completed the paperwork for) Nissan’s $1.4 billion loan request , we noticed that this was less than the $1.6 billion we heard about when the deal was first announced in June 2009 .

Report: 2013 BMW Vision EfficientDynamics supercar moving toward production

Filed under: Diesel , EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , MPG , BMW , Green Daily , Lightweight BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery According to Inside Line, which is quoting an unnamed “senior BMW authority out of Munich,” the German automaker will indeed build a production version of the Vision EfficientDynamics concept that debuted last year at the Frankfurt Motor Show .

Honda UK asks: would you rather have a Prius or a Bose sound system (and an Insight)

Filed under: Hybrid , Honda , UK Here are some answers to a question very few people were asking themselves: Two round the world trips A week as the the luxury Four Seasons Hotel in Mauritius in a Pool Side Villa A Bose lifestyle home cinema system Four pairs of Christian Louboutin shoes What do these things answer? Honda UK’s question about what you could buy with the money you saved, comparatively, if you picked a 2010 Insight hybrid as your new car instead of one of those silly Priuses

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