Robert Nardelli of Chrysler drove his company's Aspen Hybrid S.U.V., which gets 22 miles per gallon on the highway and 20 in the city. Ford's Alan Mul...
Posted 01.08.2009 | Business
UPDATE 3:30pm EST: A spokeswoman for Feinberg tells Huffington Post that he has not been approached about the position. "He doesn't know anything abo...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business
We've had enough threats from our sworn enemies -- we don't need them from Detroit executives. These CEOs and their boards of directors must go, whether by car or jet or skateboard, they must go.
AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
POZNAN, Poland — If a solar-powered car can drive 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) around the globe without using a drop of oil, perhaps it can ...
Autopia | Keith Barry | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green
A growing number of Steve McGreens are souping up their gas-electric hybrids to make them go faster and handle better, while delivering stellar fuel e...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.02.2009 | Green
Though spending on environmental efforts has long been considered an extra expense, it seems that two famously big spenders -- the United States gover...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
How anxious are the Detroit Three carmakers to make sales? My wife and I were at the Los Angeles Auto Show last night, "Black Friday," at the Los Ang...
New York Times | BILL VLASIC | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
DEARBORN, Mich. -- As the Detroit auto companies contend with their worst financial crisis in decades, the most famous American auto executive has sta...
Green Inc. | James Kanter | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green
"In contrast the European plan sounds rather more like a blank check, and a very large one at that," warned Mr. Dings and Mr. Fodor. They also call i...
Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green
We could let Detroit fail and throw money at the many future-car startups that are currently out there, but that won't provide enough product to market to deliver the improvements we require.
Diane Tucker | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
"People who say the U.S. doesn't innovate are woefully out of touch with Detroit's standing in this business."
New York Times | Matthew L. Wald | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
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...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Sen. Reid's new bailout bill for the Detroit Three does not set additional fuel-economy requirements, nor does it establish a government oversight board. That's two strikes against getting our money's worth.
Huffington Post, Grist | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green
The battle for chairmanship of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee has been heated, dividing Democrats in Congress. Rep. Henry Waxman ...
CNBC | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business
CNBC Squawk On The Street anchor and reliable curmudgeon Mark Haines doesn't trust the Big Three automakers -- Ford, GM and Chrysler -- to behave with...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
Foreign car companies that embraced green technologies rather than fight them are now the global leaders.
Green Inc. | Clifford Krauss | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green
But new hope for natural gas fuel interests may be on the way: When President-elect Barack Obama chose Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois to be h...
Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.05.2008 | Green
India's Tata Motors represents a modern-day version of what Detroit could have become if it had begun to adjust its products to obviously impending future needs back in the 1970s.
Treehugger | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
Enthusiasts have been waiting a long time to see movement on this front. Vehicle to grid for those who are not familiar with its term, is an idea of a...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
The EPA has just published... The 2009 Fuel Economy Guide. Hybrids swept the top four spots this time, with the 2009 Toyota Prius ranking as the most fuel efficient car.
Posted 11.18.2008 | Green
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Dave Burdick | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green
I really wanted this thing to be awesome, but it's way cooler on paper than on the floor. I ended up trying it out at home with my friend and we were sorely disappointed.
Wired | Stuart Schwartzapfel | Posted 11.05.2008 | Green
Everything about Alison Gannett is green, from her straw-bale house to her solar-powered appliances. But when you're as serious about curbing carbon a...
CNBC | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
Chrysler Chief Robert Nardelli visited with Michael Eisner on CNBC's "Conversations With Michael Eisner" to talk about futuristic cars, hybrids, the f...
AutoblogGreen | Sam Abuelsamid | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business
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...
Green Inc. | Libby Rosenthal | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green