What will the Chevy Volt cost? Depends on the price of gas at the end of 2010

Click above for a high res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt During the recent conference call detailing the updates on the Chevy Volt , Executive Director of Global Engineering Bob Kruse said something that deserves to be highlighted: the price of the Volt will, in part, be determined by the cost of gas in November 2010, when the car is scheduled to go on sale. Here’s the exact quote: I will tell you though that $1.50 a gallon gasoline is not necessarily helping with the business case, but who knows what the cost of petroleum is going to be in the future. I’ve been asked what’s the Volt going to cost in November, 2010 or what’s the price going to be?

Toyota confirms only one Prius for Europe

Katsuaki Watanabe, current president at Toyota Motors, has confirmed the rumors we’ve been hearing for the last few weeks that the automaker plans to continue selling the current version of the Prius alongside its newer 2010 sibling in Japan. The current 2009 Prius will continue on unchanged, as far as we’re aware, but will see its price reduced by a few million yen to match that of the new Honda Insight . We’d heard that this dual-Prius plan won’t be echoed in the United States, and now Toyota has confirmed that it won’t happen in Europe either.

Australians drive the Mitsubishi iMiEV

Mitsubishi recently brought its iMiEV road show down under to Australia. One reviewer who sampled the little electric four door was pleased with the driving experience but less impressed with some other aspects of the car.

Orange-infused tires perform well at Sebring

Prior to last weekend’s race at Sebring, we told you about Yokohama’s plan to debut their ADVAN(R) ENV-R1[TM], a new kind of tire that uses orange oil to displace about 10 percent of the total amount of petroleum used in the making of the rubber. Now that the race is over, we’re naturally wondering how the new tire technology fared in competition

Tesla Model S: $50,000 EV sedan seats seven, 300-mile range, 0-60 in 5.5s

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Tesla Model S It’s been a long and difficult road, but Tesla Motors has made it to unveiling No. 2. After a lot of hype and delivery of 250 Tesla Roadsters, the company’s Model S was unveiled today in Hawthorne, California

Brilliance bringing new electric car to Shanghai Auto Show

With China assuming the mantle of the world’s largest automotive market, China’s domestic auto shows gain more importance as its products are increasingly being sold internationally.

car2go, carsharing in the smart fortwo, comes to Austin, Texas this fall

Click above to see more steers and smarts You know what state needs more smart fortwos? Texas. That must have been Daimler’s thinking before approving an expansion of the car2go carsharing service there

BlueShift Motorcycles promises scary 200 lb ft of monster torque

In the past, when “blue shift” came up in conversations, it was usually a reference to the shortening of an object’s wavelength as it moved towards you due to the Doppler effect. These discussions often led to eyes glazing and mouths yawning. No more

Leak! Tesla Model S pics surface on web ahead of today’s debut

Click above for the leaked gallery of the Tesla Model S Tesla has a big media event planned today at 12PM PST to unveil the new Model S sedan. That plan has been blow out of the water a bit thanks to social media mogul Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com, who has uploaded what appear to be a few official images of the all-electric sedan on his Flickr page. We get two views of the car’s backside, which looks to crib design cues from modern day Jaguars and Aston Martins.

Auto Alliance CEO: automakers "Embrace Change," want national regulations

Auto Alliance President and CEO Dave McCurdy has released an Op-Ed titled “Embracing Change” in which he unsurprisingly uses can-do enthusiasm to explain just how well the big automakers are gearing up for the low-carbon economy and don’t want a nasty patchwork of laws. McCurdy repeats the automakers’ new rallying cry for “a smart and predictable regulatory environment.” Translation: California had better not get to define its own greenhouse gas emissions regulations for half of the states. McCurdy writes the President Obama should lead the way in setting this single national standard so that the industry knows which technologies to invest in

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