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Hyundai Announces Pricing for Fuel-Efficient Elantra Touring

Hyundai Announces Pricing for Fuel-Efficient Elantra Touring

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 23 -- Hyundai Motor America has announced prices for its Elantra Touring five-door compact, starting at $18,495 for a very well-equipped entry-level model and $19,995 for one featuring a Premium-Sport package. The all-new 2009 Elantra Touring is a sportier, more functional variant of Hyund ... Continue reading

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid to get 41 mpg city, says EPA

2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid to get 41 mpg city, says EPA

EPA certifies Ford's Fusion Hybrid at 41 mpg city, 36 mpg highway, beating Toyota Camry DETROIT December 23, 2008; The AP reported that Ford Motor Co.'s much ballyhooed 2010 Fusion Hybrid will get 41 city miles per gallon and 36 mpg on highways, based on final certification figures from the U.S. Environmental Protectio ... Continue reading

Battery Giant Gold Peak Takes Equity Stake in Plug In Conversions Corp.

Battery Giant Gold Peak Takes Equity Stake in Plug In Conversions Corp.

First Plug-In Prius With Gold Peak Batteries On Display at SD International Auto Show POWAY, CA­ - December 19, 2008: Gold Peak Industries North America, a subsidiary of GP Batteries International, has acquired an equity stake in Plug In Conversions Corp. (PICC), which positions the latter to sell its plug-in Toyota ... Continue reading

2009 Green Car Vision Award Finalists Announced

2009 Green Car Vision Award Finalists Announced

Plug-In Hybrid, Hydrogen, Range Extended Electric, Battery Electric Cars Included WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Five nominees have been identified for Green Car Journal's 2009 Green Car Vision Award(TM), which acknowledges a vehicle that best envisions the road ahead. One of these five finalists -- the Chevrolet Volt, Fisker ... Continue reading

ONE MORE FOR THE GOOD GUYS: U.S. Firms Join Forces to Build Car Batteries

ONE MORE FOR THE GOOD GUYS: U.S. Firms Join Forces to Build Car Batteries

Leading U.S. battery and advanced materials companies, with support from one of the country’s largest national laboratories, have formed the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture, known as the “Alliance,” to manufacture advanced lithium ion battery cells for transportatio ... Continue reading

Partial Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV) Fuel Tank From TI Automotive Named 2009 PACE Award Finalist

Partial Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV) Fuel Tank From TI Automotive Named 2009 PACE Award Finalist

WARREN, Mich., Dec. 17 -- The Partial Zero Emission Vehicle (PZEV) fuel tank from TI Automotive, the world's leading supplier of fluid-storage and delivery systems, has been selected as a 2009 PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers Contribution to Excellence) awards finalist for its revolutionary new design and production ... Continue reading

Pickens Plan Daily: OPEC Cuts Oil Production to Raise Prices Hey, Army! Get this!

Pickens Plan Daily: OPEC Cuts Oil Production to Raise Prices Hey, Army! Get this!

Courtesy T. Boone Pickens If we ever needed a lesson in why we need to cut down on our dependence on foreign oil our “friends” over at OPEC gave it to us today. They have announced they are going to cut oil production by some 2.2 million barrels per day. They are doing that so that the price will rise from wh ... Continue reading

Thegreencarwebsite.co.uk Finds The Fuel Of The Future

Thegreencarwebsite.co.uk Finds The Fuel Of The Future

It is a question that no one seems to have a definitive answer for. Just which fuel will take the place of fossil fuels in the future? Even the car manufacturers seem to be hedging their bets. Toyota, Chevrolet and Nissan are focusing on hybrids with the potential for the introduction of full electric vehicles in the f ... Continue reading

Octillion Builds Intellectual Property for Generating Electricity Using Wasted Energy

Octillion Builds Intellectual Property for Generating Electricity Using Wasted Energy

WASHINGTON--Octillion Corp. (OTCBB: OCTL), a next-generation alternative and renewable energy technology developer, today announced that the Company has filed its initial set of patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is building an intellectual property portfolio related to the development of f ... Continue reading

Another Consequence of Lower(ed) U.S. Gas Prices - Toyota Halts U.S. Prius Project

Another Consequence of Lower(ed) U.S. Gas Prices - Toyota Halts U.S. Prius Project

NASHVILLE December 15, 2008: According to Lindsay Chappell, writing for Automotive News, Toyota Motor Corp. is freezing its plan to build Prius hybrids in the United States as it battles a collapse in global profits by cutting spending. Toyota’s board reached the decision late today, Japan time, to halt the $1.3 b ... Continue reading

Evonik and Daimler Establish Strategic Alliance for the Development and Production of Lithium-ion Batteries

Evonik and Daimler Establish Strategic Alliance for the Development and Production of Lithium-ion Batteries

DUESSELDORF, Germany, Dec. 15 -- -- Investment in the powertrain of the future. -- Partnership between Evonik Industries and Daimler in Li-Tec pushes forward research, development and production of cells for lithium-ion batteries. -- Evonik and Daimler combine key technologies for success. -- Entry into a multi-billion ... Continue reading

2009 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID 2.5-LITER ENGINE MAKES LIST OF 10 BEST; NAMED BY WARD'S AUTOMOTIVE GROUP

2009 FORD ESCAPE HYBRID 2.5-LITER ENGINE MAKES LIST OF 10 BEST; NAMED BY WARD'S AUTOMOTIVE GROUP

DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 10, 2008 – Ward’s Automotive Group has named Ford’s redesigned Escape and Mariner hybrid engine to its 2009 10 Best Engines list. The 10 Best Engines list marks North America’s only awards program honoring powertrain excellence and is designed to reflect the diversity of powert ... Continue reading

Andy Grove Says Intel Should Go From Chips to Li Car Batteries - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

Andy Grove Says Intel Should Go From Chips to Li Car Batteries - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

Former Intel Corp. chairman Andrew Grove is pushing the world's biggest maker of microprocessors to consider a new venture -- becoming a manufacturer of advanced batteries for plug-in electric cars. Mr. Grove, who retired in 2005 but still advises Intel, is urging the current chief executive, Paul Otellini, to steer th ... Continue reading

All-New Toyota Prius to Make World Debut at 2009 North American International Auto Show

All-New Toyota Prius to Make World Debut at 2009 North American International Auto Show

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 12 -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. will stage the world premiere of the all-new 2010 Toyota Prius at a press conference at the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The all-new Toyota Prius, with a substantially revised Hybrid Synergy Drive system, will deliver improve ... Continue reading

HEELS ON WHEELS: TOP 10 GREEN AUTO TIPS & TRICKS FOR WOMEN

HEELS ON WHEELS: TOP 10 GREEN AUTO TIPS & TRICKS FOR WOMEN

HEELS ON WHEELS By Katrina Ramser San Francisco Bureau The Auto Channel What exactly does it mean to go green with autos? The term 'green' casts many different shades. One could be referring to using cleaner fuels or car products such as soap for your current car. Green is also a code word for frugal or cost-efficient, ... Continue reading

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