…but what about green cars? A recent column on Wheels.casuggests hybrid vehicles may be a passing fad. Sales (or lack thereof) of certain models seem to indicate just that, as does a survey published in a New York Times article ...READ»
The market is flooded with gas/electric hybrid vehicles--the Ford Escape, Nissan Altima, Chevrolet Silverado--but the good ol' Toyota Prius still takes the top spot, according to the Consumer Reports Annual Auto Issue.
This ...READ»
Green Car Journal (GCJ) has revealed its finalists for the fourth annual Green Car of the Year. The winner will be announced at this December's LA Auto Show. The contenders are the Audi A3 TDI, the Honda Insight, the Mercury Milan ...READ»
It’s our responsibility to take a stronger position with water that’s not just about water pollution (that position should be table stakes to any corporation in business in the world today), but more about ready and available sources. It’s about a desire to reduce our TAKE from the total supply; our responsibility to not draw water from sources which cannot be replenished or taken from communities who have no other source of clean available water and turn around and sell it back to them. READ»
Listen up, Prius fans: Toyota has finally released some of the details of the much-awaited U.S. plug-in Prius test program. But unless you work for a major corporation or government office, you probably won't get to test out the ...READ»
The Toyota Prius is the quintessential hybrid car. So if the Prius has a defect, well, the hybrid car industry might be facing some PR issues. Earlier this week, Japanese authorities announced that they have received 14 complaints ...READ»
You may presume, what with the technology being so new, that there isn't much opportunity to supe up your green tech hybrid car. California company 3Prong has a different idea--and a new system to mod your Prius.
Note that by "mod" ...READ»
With rising gas prices and more concern for a greener environment, the number of consumers putting hybrid vehicles on the road has increased to roughly half a million. READ»
Amid whispers of a depression, the timing of last week's CES gadget-show was awk-warrrrrd. But this week, it gets weirder, with the year's biggest auto show, which opened yesterday in the Big Three's backyard.
The 2009 North ...READ»
Should we add hybrid cars to the list of things that emit unsafe amounts of radiation? A research committee funded by Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection thinks so. The committee studied radiation emitted from various ...READ»
Toyota knows a good thing when it sees it. The car company is well on its way to spinning off its best-selling Prius hybrid, first with the recently announced 2010 Auris HSD, and now with the Sai, a hybrid luxury sedan that will be ...READ»
This weekend I had the opportunity to peek into the Green Festival here in San Francisco. Years ago this public tradeshow was primarily full of folks wearing tie-die. Today the crowd is as mainstream as a crowd can look in ...READ»
In the 1960s, fringe groups sparked awareness of animal cruelty, environmental sustainability and numerous other causes — eventually giving birth to organizations such as PETA in the 1980s. Messages from these fringe...READ»
Recently, I was filling up my Beetle and the guy at the next pump commented that I must get great gas mileage. "It gets high 20s on the highway if I'm lucky." I said, rather unenthused.
But he was impressed. ...READ»
By Jason Kavanagh, Engineering Editor Email | Blog
Psychologists have said that consumers have a three-week memory of fuel prices. If prices stay constant for more than three weeks, the buying public's decision-making ability ...READ»
This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics
series. Patti Prairie is the CEO of Brighter Planet, a startup whose
purpose is to help manage our environmental footprint, you can follow
via their blog We've all heard the wave of ...READ»
In one corner, we have "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, endive-munching, New York Times-reading snobs." And in the other corner, "Hummer-driving, Bible-thumping, fire-breathing, snake-handling fundamentalists."
Just another skirmish ...READ»
The 2010 Toyota Prius is set to achieve a combined city/highway EPA estimated fuel efficiency rating of 50 miles-per-gallon, the highest ever for a consumer retail vehicle. The original Prius came in at 41 MPG, and the current ...READ»
After looking back on the 50 years of "green marketing", Landor Associates' Chief Strategy Officer, Russ Meyers, will outline what the future holds through trends in sustainability.
In this series, we’ve looked at the history of ...READ»
Toyota's Auris HSD concept car, set to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show, will be the first mainstream European vehicle to feature full hybrid technology--the ability to run on, gas, electric, or a combination. READ»
We won't get all the juicy details about the 2010 plug-in Prius hybrid until next week's Frankfurt Motor Show, but in the meantime Toyota has released a few choice highlights about the car, which will be leased at the end of this ...READ»
Acton Toyota of Littleton achieves #1 sales rank for Prius cars in the Boston region. The Massachusetts dealer is extending Prius incentive programs through April.READ»
The year 2008 proved to be the year of the Civic Hybrid. With no competition around to drive the Civic Hybrid, it garnered much success. There was yet any talk of the 2010 Honda Insight and other manufacturers fell short of producing ...READ»
Good news for Prius groupies: The plug-in hybrid version of the best-selling vehicle will be rolled out en masse in 2011, with tens of thousands of plug-in Priuses set to hit the road. 500 lucky customers in Japan, the U.S., and ...READ»
