What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
It’s hard to believe how much difference a couple of years makes. I remember when those of us that were banging our gongs to the European automakers to bring diesels back to the US were dismissively waved away as “not understanding the American market” or “not in touch with reality.” How wrong the high paid [...]
It has been decades since anyone decided to up the fuel economy ante and force automakers to improve their CAFE ratings. Believe it or not, former President George W. Bush got the ball rolling by requiring automakers to reach 35 mpg by 2020. But Obama, swinging the bola of Hope and Change, has pushed those [...]
Although luxury hybrids will never really make a dent in the changes we need to solve our problems, they are a part of the solution too — no matter how small. Plus, they create a lot of high profile attention for the green car industry. And if you are well-off and concerned about our global [...]
They may be small cars, but them’s some big, shiny, golden cahones! VW picked up a brand new pair at the 2010 New York Auto Show, winning both the 2010 World Car of the Year Award for the VW Polo and the 2010 World Green Car of the Year award for their entire BlueMotion lineup [...]
Scion is something of a success story for Toyota, which has a “reliable but boring” reputation about the industry (despite its recent acceleration woes). The Scion brand was aimed at injecting some youth and fun into Toyota’s portfolio, and it did… for a while. After eight years though, the lineup has grown, well, boring again. [...]
Turbochargers are coming on strong from every corner of the automotive world as automakers scramble to meet the newly-announced CAFE fleet-wide mileage standard of 34.1 mpg by 2016. I love turbochargers, as they represent a compromise between horsepower and fuel efficiency. Plus, they are incredibly fun when you punch your foot into the pedal. Hyundai [...]
One of the biggest arguments against electric cars is that all those cars plugging in at the same time will overload our already beleaguered electric grid. And there might be some truth to that. When the flat screen television became popular almost overnight, some local grids were nearly overwhelmed, though eventually they adapted. But an [...]
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