Feds suggest driver error may have caused runaway Prius in NY

Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota Last week, we told you about an incident in New York involving unintended acceleration in a 2005 Toyota Prius . This accident occurred just after the high-profile case involving Jim Sikes and his Prius in San Diego , but, unlike that incident, where the car eventually came to a complete stop, the Prius in New York crashed into a stone wall with the driver suffering minor, non-life threatening injuries

It’s Friday: Audi launches latest zero-emission cars at International Toy Fair

Filed under: Etc. , Audi , Germany Audi at the International Toy Fair - Click above for high-res image gallery Audi has seemingly done the impossible: Produce desirable cars that emit exactly zero pollution or carbon dioxide.

Toyota adds Prius to list of vehicles with brake problems; not recalled (yet)

Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery The latest version of the world’s most popular hybrid has so far been excluded from the Toyota recall mess . While we’ve heard of brake problems with the third-gen Prius - and Seve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., complained as well - it wasn’t until yesterday that Toyota admitted that there is a software problem in the 2010 Prius. The Prius is still technically not part of the recall, but the company changed the software in January and will now need to deal with all of the 2010 Priuses built and sold before then

Detroit 2010: Toyota’s 2011 plug-in Prius release date is "aggressive" target

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Toyota , Detroit Auto Show Toyota Prius PHEV - Click above for high-res image gallery Bill Reinert is nothing if not an outspoken promoter of the Toyota brand . When we saw him at the Detroit Auto Show, we knew we needed to say hello and find out what is up with the plug-in Prius project and other environmental issues that the automaker is working on. Reinert take a broad view of the eco-car segment

Better Place’s Renault Fluence EV to sell for under $20,000

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Renault , Better Place Renault Fluence ZE concept - click above for high-res image gallery While Better Place has made no secret of its partnership with Renault , the company has always put an emphasis on the cheap cost-per-mile aspect of their business model instead of on the cars themselves. Better Place founder and CEO Shai Agassi is now slightly refining the message to emphasize the cheaper up-front cost of the EVs, including the Renault Fluence, instead of the running costs. Perhaps he’s learned a lesson from Nissan head Carlos Ghosn

Limited: What’s the value of talking about "range anxiety" all the time?

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hydrogen , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Green Daily Here are three important facts about gasoline: It is available almost anywhere around the world it has tremendous energy content Using it the way we do creates a whole slew of negative environmental and political side effects It’s hard to beat the first two items with a non-petroleum alternative, but those negative impacts (oh, and questions about its availability in the coming decades) are forcing us to try and find one. As regular readers know, the two most promising longer-term solutions are plug-in electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell cars. The debate between the two supporting camps is never-ending and often recycled.

Automaker Advice: How to relieve long-range anxiety and gain market share

Filed under: Etc. , EV/Plug-in , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , USA Let’s say you’re a good-sized auto manufacturer about to release an all-electric car with around 100 miles worth of range and you want it to gain market acceptance (and market share) as quickly as possible

Speed to air Jetta TDI Cup documentary "Racing Under Green" Jan. 18

Filed under: Biodiesel , Diesel , Volkswagen , Racing Last weekend, Speed TV began airing the 2009 season of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup on Saturdays and that will continue through the month of December. Those broadcasts however, only show the on-track action from green flag to checker. In motorsports, there is just as much action behind the scenes as there is during the competition and, come January 18, Speed will run a 60-minute, behind-the-scenes documentary on the 2009 season

First 25 production i-MiEVs roll into the UK

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Mitsubishi , UK Mitsubishi i-MiEV - Click above for high-res image gallery While the ship they came in on was probably dirty as all get out during its six-week journey from Japan, 25 all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEVs have arrived in the UK and will take to the streets (in an uneventful government Ultra Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator test kind of way) on December 12th. Bringing the cars to the UK has been in discussion for a long time . If sales in Japan, which started in July, are any indication, a lot more ships with a lot more electric jellybeans will need to make the journey to satisfy demand.

REPORT: All those clunkers messed up with no where to go

Filed under: Legislation and Policy , USA We found out which vehicles were the most popular “green” clunkers in the Car Allowance Rebate System that ran its course earlier this fall, but it won’t take much sleuthing to discover where all these clunkers have ended up. According to the AP , the disabled SUVs, minivans and trucks (mostly) are still sitting on scrap lots around the country. One recycler in Minnesota has acres crammed with 4,000 cars and can only dismantle about 100 cars a week.

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