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Audi Toyota Ford Mercedes Porsche Fiat Renault SeatPublished: December 8, 2009
Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants , Toyota , USA In a move to reduce the impact of the yen’s strength against the dollar, Toyota is planning to finish off its recently-built plant in Tupelo, Mississippi. The plant was started way back in 2006 but had been put on indefinite hold last December . At this time, only the building shell has been completed and there is no actual car-building equipment installed
Published: December 6, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Renault , Green Daily , Europe/EU Renault Zoe Z.E. concept – click above for high-res image gallery Naming a car, even a concept car, is a process fraught with difficulty. Renault, for example, it taking flak for using the common (in France) female name Zoé for one of their new electric vehicle concepts
Published: December 5, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Audi , LA Auto Show While we were spending our time inside the LA Convention Center this week ogling the orange Audi e-tron , Autospies’ Agent 001 wandered outside and snapped some pics of the red version of this powerful all-electric sports car on a nearby street. While the car itself is nothing new , this does give us some idea of what to expect when a production version e-tron arrives, supposedly sometime in 2012. The 3319 lb-ft of torque ( well…
Published: December 5, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hydrogen , Washington DC Auto Show Audi A3 TDI – Click above for high-res image gallery The Audi A3 TDI was named Green Car Journal ‘s 2010 Green Car of the Year yesterday , and the magazine is already looking ahead to next month, when the Green Car Vision Award will be announced at the Washington Auto Show at the end of January. The five finalists for this award, given to cars that aren’t available yet but show a lot of eco-promise, include the Nissan Leaf, Coda Automotive’s electric sedan, the Ford Focus BEV, the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell and Toyota’s plug-in Prius. That’s a pretty good selection, considering that some other suitable candidates were named as finalists last year, when the winner was the Chevy Volt (the others were: Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Honda FCX Clarity, Fisker Karma and MINI E).
Published: November 27, 2009
Filed under: Etc. Click above to find out what the Autoblog team is thankful for [Photo: Road Fun | CC 2.0] Happy Thanksgiving! Autoblog is grateful for… originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:58:00 EST.
Published: November 26, 2009
Filed under: Etc. , Green Daily Turns out, getting off of gasoline might save more than parts of the environment. According to a study published in BMC Physiology , rats exposed to unleaded gasoline fumes for 30 minutes a day for six weeks “exhibited an increase in lipid peroxidation and a decrease in AChE and superoxide dismutase activities.” What does that mean?
Published: November 26, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , SMART The next-generation Smart Ed, which just started production in France this week , is out and about on the streets of Berlin being filmed for some sort of promotional video, we think.
Published: November 26, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors Tesla Roadster – Click above for high-res image gallery We recently asked if the Tesla IPO is for you , and the results of that poll are about even.
Published: November 26, 2009
Filed under: Etc. , Europe/EU Audi A3 TDI – Click above for high-res image gallery Most likely due to the current economic downturn, most business rentals are getting smaller.
Published: November 25, 2009
Filed under: Etc.