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Five Scariest Detroit Auto Show Moments -- 2009

Steve Parker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, Chevy Volt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tesla Motors, Chengfeng, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec, Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Consumer Reports, Geely, Dodge Ram, Motor Trend, BYD Auto, Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Mini, Ford Flex, North American Car and Truck of the Year, Smart Electric, Chery, Bob Nardelli, Swatch Watch, Gm, Ford F-150, Penske Automotive Group, Cnbc, Chinese Cars, Ford, Detroit Three, Detroit Automakers, BMW Group, North American International Auto Show, Tokyo Motor Show, Roger Penske, Mini E, Warren Buffett, Daimler, Brilliance, Nactoy, Volkswagen Jetta Diesel, Hyundai Genesis, Business News

America is the world's biggest automotive market, yet offers very little in the way of independent analysis and car, truck or motorcycle testing.

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It's All Business at Depressed Auto Show

Daniel Hernandez | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Jim Press, Chrysler, Gm, Naias, Detroit Three, Detroit Auto Show, Detroit Automakers, Automaker Bridge Loan, Richard Wagoner, General Motors, Detroit Three Loans, Detroit, Michigan, Chevy Volt, Green Cars, Cadillac Converj, Auto Bailout, Business News

It was a different kind of auto show this year in Detroit. Gone were the celebrity presenters, the pyrotechnics, the herd of cattle escorting new pickups to the media pool. Those days are over.

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Automakers, Fearing for Their Lives, Are Going Green Fast

Hank Green | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Chevy Volt, Big Three Automakers, Naias, Economy, Toyota Prius, Cars, Green Living, Cadillac Converj, Green Cars, Green Technology, Green News

The more Ford, GM and Chrysler talk about their electric vehicles, the more they appear to be actually innovating, instead of stagnating.

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Simple Solutions for 2009

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza Strip War, Peace on Earth, Saving Planet Earth and Humanity, Buy American, Saving the National Economy, Obama's Cabinet, Peak Oil, Obama Transition, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Auto Bailout, The Biomethanol Economy, Isreael-Hamas, Chevy Volt, G8 Naitons Summit, Automakers Bailout, Biofuels, Gas Tax, Obama Administration, Green Energy, Recession, PO/GW, Obama Environment, Gaza Strip, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, Biomethanol, G8 Nations, Detroit Bailout, Politics News

By now you have no doubt read a dozen reviews of 2008 and projections for 2009, all pure guesses for the latter, unless someone was carefully predicti...

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Some Good -- and Fun -- Automotive News for the Holidaze

Steve Parker | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Cell Phones, Tarp, Automotive News, Good Sam Club, Chevy Volt, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Tata Motors, Honda Accord, Rose Parade Committee, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Federal Reserve, Cars, F1, The Oscars, Ford, FCX Clarity, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Gmac, Representative Sandy Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Jean Shepherd, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Suburban, Hyundai, Christmas, Pasadena Rose Parade, Nobuhiko Kawamoto, GMAC Bailout, Jaguar, Hyundai Excel, Toyota, Chevrolet, Washington DC, American Honda, Land Rover, Red Ryder Bb Gun, Floorplanning, Formula One, Chevrolet Cruze, Asimo, Daisy Red Ryder Bb Gun, Landline Phones, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Honda Super Cub, Pasadena, Santa Claus, Subaru, Hawaii, Business News

Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.

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Ford To Idle 10 Plants, GM Halting Construction Of Volt Plant

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chrysler, Automaker Bailout, Chevy Volt, Chevy Volt Plant, Ford Plant Closures, Gm, Economy, Chrysler Plant Closures, Ford, Financial Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is looking at "orderly" bankruptcy as a possible way to deal with the desperately ailing U.S. auto industry...

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2030 Predictions: Flat Demand For Oil, Surge In Number Of Hybrid Vehicles

Dot Earth | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Chevy Volt, Light Vehicles, Hybrid, Electric Cars, Energy Consumption, Renewable Energy, Annual Energy Outlook, Environment, Cars, Diesel, Transportation, Green News

The Annual Energy Outlook projecting United States energy trends through 2030 foresees flat demand for oil, a shrinking need for imports and enormous ...

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So GM Gets Bailed Out and Brings Us the Chevy Volt...and Then What?

Matthew DeBord | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Scion, Plug-in EV, Chevy Volt, Prius, General Motors, Hybrid, Electric Vehicle, Sustainability, Lexus, Toyota, Detroit Bailout, Sustainable Mobility, Detrooit, Green News

As Congress closes in a "short term," bailout of the Big Three Detroit Automakers, it's time to ask what their product plans for the future are going to be, if they survive.

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Call for Resignation of GM's Lutz, Too, as Condition of Bailout

David Sassoon | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Forcing out GM's Bob Lutz may seem like a sideshow to the much bigger issues needing resolution to rescue Detroit, but if you believe in the power of gesture, maybe not.

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Claim: 25,000 Mile Battery For Plug-In Hybrid

AutoGreenBlog | Domenick Yoney | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: 25, Chevy Volt, Plug in Hybrids, 000 Mile Battery, Hybrid Battery, Green Auto, Green News

The lithium ion batteries being used for plug-in hybrids such as the Chevy Volt are easily the single most expensive part of the car and now, AFS Trin...

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Is The Hybrid Car Battery Problem Solved?

New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Chevy Volt, Hybrid Cars, GM Volt, Green Cars, AFS Trinity, Green News

AFS Trinity Power, a small company in Bellevue, Wash., says it has the problem licked. In January, the company rolled out a small S.U.V. that uses lit...

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Memo to Detroit: Change Now or Die

Steve Parker | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Chevy Volt, Saturn, Chrysler, Gm, Alan Mulally, Ucla, Gary Shapiro, Rick Wagoner, Epa, W. Edwards Deming, Ford, Cars, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Ces, Robert Nardelli, William Clay Ford, Nhtsa, Japan, Plug-in Hybrids, SUV Sales, Business News

Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.

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Chrysler's Volt Envy

EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Chrysler, GM Volt PHEVs, Chevy Volt, Gm, Electric Cars, Green News

I thought it was ridiculous when GM was advertising the Volt two years before scheduled production. But now Chrysler is advertising the Volt, and they...

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Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Credits Sweeten Bailout Bill

Treehugger | Michael Graham Richard | Posted 11.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environment, Cars, Chevy Volt, Tax Credits, Gm, Bailout Bill, Plug-in Cars, Plug-in Hybrids, Green News

The original "bailout plan" by Treasury Secretary Paulson was 3 pages long. The Senate version that was passed last night (H.R. 1424) is now 451 page...

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Greening Hollywood: The Electric Revolution

Paige Donner | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

We need to do that to oil. We need to destroy its strategic role and its monopoly over transportation. Electricity, as was the case with salt, is going to be right at the heart of that.

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Chrysler Revs Up to Join Green Car Race

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Chevy Volt, Tesla Motors, General Motors, Chrysler, Electric Cars, Green News, Dodge EV, Detroit, Auto Industry, Green News

Chrysler revealed prototypes for three electric cars Tuesday--an SUV, minivan, and coupe--and announced plans to roll one of the models out to showrooms by 2010.

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Chevy Volt Will Be Made In Flint, Michigan

AutoblogGreen | Sam Abuelsamid | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevy Volt, Gm, Rick Wagoner, Electric Cars, Cars, Phevs, Green Cars, Chevy Volt Manufacturing, Business News

At an event in Flint MI today, GM CEO Rick Wagoner and Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm were on hand to officially announce that GM will be buildin...

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General Motors Continues to Send Mixed Messages on Global Warming

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Bob Lutz, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Change, Global Warming, Tom Wilkinson, Green News

A General Motors corporate executive with a history of denying global warming went on a widely watched television show and pushed a thoroughly discredited theory on the science of climate change.

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Green "Correction" in Auto Sector Leaves GM Clinging to Government Loans

George Spyros | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Chevy Volt, Government Bailout, Bob Lutz, Gm, General Motors, Financial Crisis, Green Business, Global Warming, Green News

To adopt some financial lingo being bantered about quite a bit these days, the green "correction" to the U.S. auto industry is in full swing. GM lea...

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Chevy Volt Exec Bob Lutz On Colbert Report (VIDEO)

Comedy Central | Posted 10.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Chevy Volt, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Gm, GM Volt, Electric Cars, Environment, Cars, Auto, GM Electric Car, Colbert Report, Green News

Colbert gets faux-outraged that an electric car is tantamount to admitting that humans have to do something about climate change. COLBERT: "Why not j...

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Everything You Need to Know About the New Chevy Volt

Maura Judkis | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Cars, Automakers, Chevy Volt, Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles, Plug-in Cars, Gm, General Motors, Hybrid Cars, Going Green, Plug-in Hybrids, Green Living, Auto Industry, Green News

GM just lit up the Internet with opinions from car lovers and tree-huggers everywhere. Here's a quick guide to everything you need to know about the car of the not-so-distant future.

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Tough To Swallow The New, Pill-Shaped Chevy Volt

Dave Burdick | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Chevy Volt, General Motors, Gm, Chevy Volt Design, Electric Cars, Phevs, Cars, Green Driving, Green Living, Green News

The new design, unveiled this week, is rounder, as if to protect a five-year-old from hurting himself while playing with it. Big mistake.

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GM's Lutz Asks For Break On Crash Tests To Focus On Fuel Efficiency

DailyTech | Jason Mick | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Autos, Fuel Efficiency, Chevy Volt, Bob Lutz, Gm, Energy Use, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Cars, Fuel Economy, CAFE Legislation, Corvette, Green News

It's no secret that America's largest automakers -- General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler -- are struggling. Weighted by the burden of a t...

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Car Industry Group to Public: It's Not All Our Fault, It's Yours Too

Steve Parker | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas-Electric Hybrid Technology, Gas Prices, Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Andrew Card, Gm, American Automobile Industry, Mazda, Captive Imports, Detroit Three, Ford, Ecodriving, Cars, American Automobile Manufacturers Association, Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Rube Goldberg, Bmw, Chevy, General Motors, Malibu, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Mitsubishi, Plug-in Hybrids, Corvette, Aama, Ecodriver, Aam, Detroit Auto Show, Business News

It's the same story we've been hearing from car-makers, especially those in Detroit, for the past 30 years: "Just wait a little longer and we'll have those new cars and trucks you've been hoping for."

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GM Pulls Oscars Advertising Plan

Reuters | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, GM Finance, Chevy Volt, General Motors, Gm, Advertising, The Oscars, GM Money, GM Advertising, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual e...

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