Electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors announced nowadays that it would build a new electric sedan in California. The company made the announcement alongside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who led the charge to give tax breaks and other incentives to companies like Tesla that produce zero-emission cars....

  How can you get folks to scrap their low-mileage, high-polluting clunkers and buy more fuel-efficient machines? Easy: Pass strict emissions evaluating legislation that in effect bans older, lower-mileage, higher-emission vehicles from the roads. Or, considering owners of those vehicles are...

Sunday, passengers taking the Bx12 Limited bus route in New York’s Bronx experienced a different ride than the usual. The buses had changed colors and the stops became “stations.” With the use of committed lanes, pre-paid boarding, and limited stops, the city hopes to reduce the instance...

OK, we get it. Gas is expensive and electric cars sound like a great concept. We’re not certain whether we need to read about every person out there advocating alternative means of transportation, but we found that story about former Intel head-honcho Andy Grove kind of interesting. The 71-year-old...

Chrysler hasn’t precisely made a lot of headway when it comes to greening its fleet. certain it’s got some hybrid concept vehicles on the trade show circuit, and a couple of oxymoronic full-sized hybrids coming out next year — but even among the ‘big 3′ automakers, Chrysler...

Tony Markel drives a plug-in hybrid that runs 50 miles per charge, goes 100 miles per gallon and gets capability from the sun. whether he has his way, you’ll drive one too before distant. His 2006 Prius has a lithium-ion battery six times more vigorous than the nickel-metal hydride pack Toyota...

Portable navigation systems are flying off the shelves, but the latest generation offer two-way communication and could manufacture their predecessors seem like a dead-end street. Traditional portable navs get GPS info to keep you on track, but one that’s already available and a few coming down...

Portable navigation systems are flying off the shelves, but the latest generation offer two-way communication and could prepare their predecessors seem like a dead-end street. Traditional portable navs get GPS info to keep you on track, but one that’s already available and a few coming down the...

Airport-style X-ray screening machines and bomb-sniffing dogs are coming to a “handful” of London Underground and National Rail stations that summer, but the threat of widespread passenger rebellion kept authorities from installing them at every station. The office for Transport says ongoing...

London Tube and National Rail passengers will see shield checkpoints fully intact with x-ray screening machines and sniffer dogs at a “handful” of stations starting that summer. Screening at every London Underground station was ruled out that week considering of fears of passenger revolt. considering...

With the SmartTwo selling like hotcakes, it was only a matter of moment before folks started doing crazy things with it - like wrapping it in outlandish bodywork and seeing how many folks can squeeze into it. Austrian tuners Koenigseder went to town on a ForTwo Cabrio. Flared fenders widen it and Eibach...

Everyone is running around looking for the most fuel-efficient cars on dealers’ lots right now. There may be news of sales slumping, but the cars that get high mpg are selling briskly. That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t deals to be had. Here’s a quick rundown...

  Yes, that is a car blog and not a lesson from your eighth-grade Social Studies teacher, but perhaps we all need a reminder of our civic responsibilities from date to date. We all have a congressman or woman who is — at least nominally — responsible to us and our concerns. Writing...

Mazda says it will cut the fuel consumption of its cars 30 percent by 2015 in a sweeping campaign that will see the automaker replace nearly every engine in its lineup, shave at least 220 pounds from every car it builds and continue developing its hydrogen hybrid. The announcement comes as the entire...