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First Ford dealers get certified to sell the Focus Electric

, May 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're a fan of green vehicles and have been looking forward to the new Focus Electric from Ford, the automaker has now certified the first dealers to sell the vehicle. The first batch of 67 dealers are now certified to sell the Focus Electric, and the car will arrive this spring. The car will be available nationwide by the end of 2012. Read The Full Story

New Ford Escape EPA rated for 33 mpg with 1.6L EcoBoost

, Apr 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Ford has announced the EPA handed down the fuel economy rating for the new Ford Escape with the 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine. The EcoBoost used in the Escape is a 1.6-liter twin turbo engine offering 2 miles per gallon more fuel efficiency than competing products such as the Honda CR-V and the Toyota RAV4 on the highway. The new Escape offers five mpg better fuel economy than the outgoing version of the small SUV. Read The Full Story

XEOPlay offers iPhone game Earth Day challenge

, Apr 22nd 2012 Discuss [2]

XEOPlay, the company that designed the 99-cent iPhone game Tilt World, is hoping that its players can achieve a total of 3 million "Tilt Points" on Earth Day. If that happens, the company's CEO Nicole Lazzaro will travel to Madagascar to help plant a batch of trees in Madagascar. To help make that happen, players will earn Tilt Points at twice their normal rate only on Earth Day. Read The Full Story

Apple Data Center goal is 100% Green

, Apr 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

This week the folks responsible for Apple's building construction efforts have broken ground on a new location in Prineville, Oregon where they've promised a "100% Renewable Energy" data center. This data center would help contain such data as iCloud backups like its soon to be partner facility in Maiden, North Carolina. This center promises to be "even more" environmentally friendly than the center that already exists in Maiden, this new facility out-doing the Maiden's giant solar power array which accounts for 60 percent of the center's power requirements. Read The Full Story

Ford tepid on electric trucks

, Apr 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

So far, we've seen a lot of electric cars from automakers around the world, but we haven't seen such a big uptake in the production of electric trucks. There are few electric trucks on the market, butmost are aimed at larger enterprise users rather than the general consumer. Ford CEO Alan Mulally has said that Ford intends to come to the electric truck market slowly. Read The Full Story

Ford and Dow work together cheaper carbon fiber composites

, Apr 12th 2012 Discuss [4]

Carbon fiber is a very expensive, yet lightweight and strong material that is typically used in motorsports and the production of exotic sports cars. The reason you don't see carbon fiber in mainstream automobiles is the cost of manufacturing the material and producing parts made from carbon fiber. Ford has teamed up with Dow, and the duo is working to bring low-cost and high-volume carbon fiber composites to next-generation vehicles. Read The Full Story

IBM, Honda, and PG&E team for smarter electric vehicle charging

, Apr 12th 2012 Discuss [2]

There are a lot of technology companies, carmakers, and utility companies that are working together around the world to make the charging of electric vehicles more convenient for drivers. At the same time, these companies are also working to help reduce the load on the electric grid, which in some areas is near its limits. American Honda Motor Company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and IBM have announced that they've teamed up on a pilot project to allow communication between EVs and the power grid. Read The Full Story

Renault channels Steve Jobs: You don’t know you love our electric buggy yet

, Apr 10th 2012 Discuss [4]

There's a vehicle out there by the name of Renault Twizy, a cross between a buggy and a car, smaller than a Smart Car and made specifically for city use. This vehicle has been tested out by Antony Ingram at Green Car Reports and as they describe it as a "high-rise electric go-cart," it seems at first to be a bit strange for $10,000 and $65 a month for battery rental, even if that's one of the cheapest electric vehicles on the market today. Renault is noted, on the other hand, has having prepared for the eventuality of the unconvinced customer with a Steve Jobs quote, of all things. Read The Full Story

Dodge Ram 1500 pickups get more power and more green

, Apr 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

Trucks are huge business for automakers in United States, especially in some states such as Texas. Trucks also tend to be some of the least efficient vehicles on the road, but that is changing with lots of new technology finding its way into your average pickup truck. One of those trucks getting many technological enhancements is the 2013 Dodge Ram 1500. Read The Full Story

Early Porsche 918 Spyder prototype hits the track

, Mar 20th 2012 Discuss [1]

Porsche makes some of the most capable sports cars on the planet. Many of these cars will see nothing more challenging than a trip out of the garage on occasion, but some Porsche vehicles are destined hit the track. We got a glimpse at the Porsche 918 Spyder a while back, and it is one of the coolest green sports cars I've ever seen. Porsche decided that it was going to produce the vehicle and sell it to those with a bank account large enough to afford it. Read The Full Story

Nissan DeltaWing goes road racing

, Mar 14th 2012 Discuss [2]

The car you see here isn't Batman's latest ride, it's called the Nissan DeltaWing, and it looks very strange. The car is described as part road racer and part salt flat racer it is designed to be more aerodynamic than other cars on the grid and to use half the fuel the other vehicles use. Interestingly, the car isn't a pure flight of fantasy research project either. It will be coming to the 24 hours of LeMans. Fuel economy is a huge deal in endurance racing and if the car delivers on its promise it could be very competitive indeed. Read The Full Story

Fisker Karma breaks down in Consumer Reports testing

, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [6]

A Fisker Karma luxury hybrid, purchased brand-new for testing by Consumer Reports, embarrassingly broke down this week before official testing even began. Consumer Reports paid over $100,000 for the vehicle and was perplexed that it stopped working just a few days into the check-in process. Read The Full Story
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