Green LEAF, Shocking VOLT -- GM Doesn't Get It, Again
The Nissan LEAF is bringing the next generation of low- and zero-emission vehicles to market. The Chevy VOLT still runs on gasoline, and goes less than half the distance of a fully charged LEAF.
The Nissan LEAF is bringing the next generation of low- and zero-emission vehicles to market. The Chevy VOLT still runs on gasoline, and goes less than half the distance of a fully charged LEAF.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
"Toyota Motor Corp. has joined the growing ranks of automakers planning to bring advanced battery-powered vehicles to consumers in the next few years."
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
You may have heard about the "Gore-backed" car company that got more than $500 million to make a sports car. What you may have missed: the government is backing green technology and a plan to make it popular.
Steve Parker | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
The CARS law is officially over, but dealers are offering their own versions of the "clunker" program.
AP | KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a...
Kevin George | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
Bottom line, if your enthusiastic about EVs, this may be your time to plug-in and get involved. Find out for yourself why there's electricity in the air around EVs.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business
Like a glass of ice water in the scorching desert, it sure sounds enticing -- Uncle Sam giving you as much as $4,500 to trade in your old gas guzzler for a new and more fuel-efficient car.
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese automaker's soon-to-open headquarters Sunday in the first pu...
ecogeek.org | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green
Both the big auto giants and the lightweight electric startups applied for as much of said money as possible, and the Department of Energy is moments ...
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 07.25.2009 | Style
No question: the Cube's asymmetry - design-wise - will evoke attention and intrigue. But will this visual pattern interruption mean more or less safety for the drivers behind the Cube?
AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and KEN THOMAS | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
DEARBORN, Mich. — Cultivating the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles, the Obama administration said Tuesday it would lend $5.9 billion t...
AP | SHINO YUASA | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday its electric vehicles will be affordable, setting sights on the potentially lucrative market wit...
AP | DAN STRUMPF | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — There's a message for Detroit's automakers in the new J.D. Power and Associates rankings: Good work. Now go back and do it again. The ...
Reuters | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Nissan Motor Co plans to launch production of electric vehicles and their batteries in the United States to tap low-interest loans for green vehicles,...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
As I toured the U.S. last week on the 11-state, 32-city "Keep it Made in America" bus tour. I talked to unemployed manufacturing workers who are desperate.
AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
TOKYO — Nissan announced 20,000 job cuts Monday, the deepest reduction among Japan's automakers in battling the global downturn, as it forecast ...
Steve Parker | Posted 02.18.2009 | Business
While GM and Chrysler both remain on life support (and Ford has also been talking with the government about a credit line or loan), the car and truck business around the world is not doing much better than Detroit.
Steve Parker | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business
With economists predicting a rough 2009, 2010 and maybe even 2011, there's not much chance of '09 and '10 car sales reaching even 2008's miserable 13.1 million.
Steve Parker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.
Diane Tucker | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green
Why solicit McDonough's opinion? Because this architect and author, and one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Planet, is no stranger to Detroit or the greening of industrial processes.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business
This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
Late last night, Senate Republicans derailed a bill, passed the day before by the House, to loan $15 billion to the Detroit Three, with 10 Republicans joining 40 Democrats and two Independents in favor.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.28.2008 | Business
At this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, the 205-mile per hour, $100,000, 2009 Corvette ZR1 is relegated to the very rear of the Chevrolet exhibit, like the "adults only" section in video stores.
Chicago Tribune | Kathy Bergen | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
Nissan may have a presence at the Chicago Auto Show after all. Nissan North America Inc.'s announcement Monday that it would pull out of the auto sho...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green