Green Cars Are All the Rage At The World's Largest Auto Show (PHOTOS)

From hybrid plug-ins to all-electric sports cars, these green cars were all the rage at the world's largest auto show, the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany. Check out these amazing creations and vote on which one you would like to own!

Volkswagen One-Liter Concept Car

Also known as the 1L, this car will be able to travel 100 km on just one liter of gasoline (that's 235 miles per U.S. gallon). To achieve this, it relies on light-weight materials and a one-cylinder diesel engine.

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[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtgMO0RBG8&feature=related

[Kaviraj]

Anybody notice that the little Renault has square wheels? No wonder it is so fuel efficient! LMAO!!!!!

[jlmealer]

Many of these cars are really cute! Aawwwwww. how special.

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[QDP]

What infuriates me most is that GM, Ford, DB-Chrysler all saw these FRANKFURT Autoshow developments YEARS ago, and ignored them,.... because marketing told them Americans want Huge. So we have monster vehicles, in size, in luxury amenities, in the green badged Escalade hybrids, Sierra 3/4T hybrids and even Hummer Hybrids, by plaque names only. Nothing efficient about these behemoths.

The path is clear for now: See VW, Diesel TDI Hi pressure rails, w/scrubbers, 1 ltr engines with hybrid/elect. augmentation, BUT the main change is LOSE THE MASS/weight we seem to want to shovel ourselves around in!

How stupid can DUMB get? Pushing around two and a half tons of metal with over three hundred HP? electroservo motors (moving mirrors, seats, rear door openers etc)... and ADVERTIZING adapting huge 318 HP engines to do things to appease US buyers (Europe's new approaches could leapfrog) IS INSANE.

Instead? You heard the new chairman GM state it. "Take a good look at us now." I am. Same BS,. We are really stupid here....
Iacocca was right whenm he stated we need leaderrs, not cowtowing wimps.

[SailorBill]

You are exactly right! The (once) Big 3 represent the worst of corporate America.

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

10 years and then it's time to stop producing gasoline cars.

[wdw505]

it is just SUV snack food

[greencoolhip]

A lot of these cars shown here are too expensive or impractical.
How many people are going to buy that 1-seater?
How does that 18MPG, V8 engine X6 from BMW help?

[QDP]

Thank God at least BMW remains as dumb as GM.... 6,000 lbs GVW X-6M with over 550 HP is GREAT marketing, guys,,,

we will condemn those driving these kind of statements within five years -when gas hits $6.00/G next summer...

[SusanTW]

It's about time automakers realized that cheap oil won't last forever.

We don't seem to care about our natural resources until it's too late.

We're trying to protect, not mediate after the damage is done.

go to www.cleanwaterwarrior.com

[objectivist510]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml

"The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration's estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year."

[rf-hawaii]

Cool.

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

Cool, for cancer free air it seems a small price to pay

[jsarets]

It's impossible to know how much cap and trade will cost consumers, because it's impossible to know how much demand there will be for permits, because institutional investors with no need or use for the permits can create artificial demand through speculative trading.

There will be bubbles in the market pricing of carbon permits, particularly at the beginning when the sophisticated investment banks think they have a better initial understanding of the market than the industrial polluters that actually need the permits.

[socialscientist]

The private auto pollutes before it turns a wheel. The manufacture is wasteful. It then goes on to burn fossil-fuels (coal in the case of electric cars). It promotes sprawl. There is no such thing as a green car.

[BlackbirdHighway]

My electric car is powered by my solar panels, not coal.

Turn off your computer and go live in a cave. Find one that is not already taken by bats, so you won't disturb them.

[TParrish]

This is close. I am waiting for it to be available.
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/

[Prakosh]

The only one that I like is the Audi--it is nearly as fast as the Tesla and it is all electric. Hybrids are just another way for the oil companies to continue selling gasoline as ever higher prices. The only way to go from here on is all electric. As soon as they get over 300 miles between charges they will have a car that is salable to a wide population and the gasoline powered vehicle is history. We need to get off gasoline. The only way to do that is all electric.

[rf-hawaii]

150 mile range is fine for me.

[Kaviraj]

And how do you get the electricity? Burn coal, oil and gas. Dumb idea.

Get rid of those cars altogether. Now that is a good idea. Trains move 357 tons of goods - or however many people - on 1 litre of oil. That is what i call fuel efficient.

[fallingsky]

Cap and Tax to cost each family $1760.00 and not one iota of tangible consequence to the environment ....HE LIED

[BlackbirdHighway]

Or maybe the person who told you that is lying.

[exhale09]

Wooohooo!

Green is looking good!

Twizy is pretty cool and futuristic! Me like.

[Ken Maddox]

Also known as the 1L, this car will be able to travel 100 km (or 62 miles) on just one liter of gasoline. To achieve this, it relies on light-weight materials and a one-cylinder diesel engine.

__________­__________­__________­__________­__
The most amazing thing about this car is it is the first car in history to achieve such high gasoline economy from a diesel engine. The Germans have found some new technology here.

[jsarets]

I'm most impressed by GM's new 1.2L and 1.4L engines with turbocharged direct injection (TDI). The 2011 Chevy Cruze (with the 1.4L) makes 140bhp and 45mpg. The 2011 Chevy Spark (with the 1.2L, which doesn't have official specs yet) should make at least 115bhp and 50mpg.

In comparison, the Chevy Volt (with a normally-aspirated version of the 1.4L), in its serial hybrid charge-sustaining mode, gets 50mpg. The bottom line is that small combustion engines are becoming efficient enough that hybrid systems are struggling to shave enough energy off the margins of the torque curve to pull their own weight.

...let alone their cost.

Toyota is aggressively phasing in their Valvematic variable lift intake system, which individually throttles each of the two intake valves per cylinder instead of having one throttle valve for the whole engine, which improves fuel economy by 10-15%.

Until recently, small combustion engines were terrible, designed to be inexpensive and not much else. But we're experiencing a renaissance in small engines, and the rationale for hybrid drive systems is getting pretty weak.

I'd like a regenerative brake/launch motor on the driveshaft and an engine idle stop/start motor on the crankshaft (i.e. mild hybrid). But the full hybrid systems just aren't worth their weight or their cost, and this is coming from someone who is admittedly fascinated by electric drive.

If you want an electric car, get an electric car, not a hybrid.

[leftcoastindy]

I've already owned 2 hybrids and they are great. Well worth the extra $3 or $4K cost. If you don't care about smooth and powerful, then maybe a small engine would work OK for you.

[rf-hawaii]

Hybrids are way too complex.

Pure electrics are so simple they'll last forever.