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.
Back in the late 1960′s, over 90% of new cars were offered with some kind of V8 engine. Then came the gas crunch, and big V8′s went out of vogue in place of smaller 4-cylinder engines. Yet America has always had a love affair with big, powerful engines. While lately the number of V8-powered cars [...]
The electric motorcycle company which just partnered with mega electronics supplier Flextronics, and is working on a second round of funding, is now working on moving beyond Best Buy.
Gas2.0 Author Susanna Schick Hosts TTXGP Founder and CEO Azhar Hussain as he tours the Golden State spreading the gospel of electric motorcycle racing and having a blast along the way.
I write about a lot of fanciful concept cars that I know have little or no basis in reality. Most of these concepts never even make it past the “sketch” phase. Some concepts make it a little bit farther than that, going on to become a clay model. Sometimes, even the most illogical concepts somehow, [...]
Even though the Prius gets the headlines, arguably the greenest vehicle available to US buyers for the past seven years has been the California-only natural-gas-powered Honda Civic GX. Since the infrastructure hasn’t been there to support widespread distribution of NGVs, however, Honda has kept production numbers of the GX very low. According to Honda’s senior manager [...]
Here in the Northeast, we really do have four seasons (as opposed to say, California’s perpetual summer). One of those seasons is winter, and New England winters can be mild or brutal, depending on the year. That cold weather has a detrimental effect on cars, from salt on roads rusting out frames to accidents and [...]
Remember when vans were cool? I don’t, but my father likes to regale me of tales when big vans with wild paintings adorning the side were all the rage. These days it seems most vans are used for delivery or contractor work, especially over in Europe. They never got the memo that the van craze [...]
It is hard to believe how far Hyundai/Kia has come in such a relatively short time. The 2011 Hyundai Sonata is a sharp looking car available with both turbocharged and hybrid engines that deliver great gas mileage, especially for their price segment. Now Kia, the cheaper kid brother of Hyundai, is getting its own version [...]
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