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.
Jaguar has always been something of a troubled brand that despite itself, makes beautiful cars. Jaguar has not been able to stand on its own two feet ever since it was acquired by British Leyland, before being bought by Ford, and then sold off to Tata Motors, the current owners. Yet Jaguar may be experiencing [...]
I’m a huge history buff, and I’ve always been fascinated military strategies and their far-reaching consequences. Take World War II for example. One of the main reasons the Allies were able to triumph over Nazi Germany was their prolonged and relentless bombing campaign on oil fields and pipelines. An army without fuel cannot be effective, [...]
Google gives pedal-powered Shweeb $1 million to build an urban prototype. Can it work?
Tapping the power of the sea, one of Ocean Power Technologies‘ new PowerBuoys can now claim to be the first wave power device to deliver electricity to America’s power grid. The OPT PB40 PowerBuoy was hooked up to the grid at Hawaii’s Marine Corps Base as part of the firm’s program with the US military to [...]
These photos show the final production version of Saab’s long-anticipated 9-4X Biopower concept, which will feature Saab’s new design language and slick new turbo-charged gas and diesel engines which should deliver on the concept’s flex-fuel promises. Saab first showed its 9-4X Biopower concept more than 2 years ago, to largely positive reviews in the press. Since [...]
Carscoop just posted what might be the first pictures of Toyota’s upcoming Prius MPV! According to reports from Carscoop reader Nick K., who took the photos (above and below), the mini-minivan is about the same size as the Mazda 5, and was following one of Lexus’ new CT200h Hybrids. As you can see from the [...]
It was only a few short weeks ago that I wrote about—what seemed to be—Toyota playing Goliath to Lotus’ (formidable) David. Now (well, yesterday) the boys at Autoblog are reporting that the 2014 production version of the Lotus Elite concept (shown, above) might be using Toyota’s hybrid system, and NOT Lotus’ own innovative Omnivore range-extending [...]
Infiniti was introduced to America in 1989 as the luxury arm of Nissan, and since then it has blossomed to be an outright competitor for many European luxury sports brands like BMW and Audi. I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the Inifiniti G35/37, and it has a very competitive entry price as well. [...]
