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.
Nissan has always been among my favorite brands. As far as Japanese cars go, it always stood out as a more performance-oriented brand than Toyota or Honda. I’ve also had good luck in terms of the reliability of my Nissans. One of my favorite cars was a ’92 240sx that had a bulletproof engine even [...]
It’s a vision of the future, but it’s closer than you may think. A black ribbon of tarmac threading its way past industrial and commercial centres with regular stop off points for renewable energy transport. Local towns use their waste and biomass to produce ethanol and EVs can recharge or do battery swaps as and [...]
We are pretty privileged here in America to have the wide open roads we do. That is because America is a big, young country, and we didn’t have to build over narrow, existing roads choked by ancient buildings. We basically just paved over whatever we want, which meant we could drive our massive cars with ease. Meanwhile [...]
Naming cars in this day of globalization has become an exercise of gargantuan proportions. For marketers and brand managers, the trick is to avoid a name that can be translated as something less than appealing in one of the dozens of languages you plan on marketing in. Even so, every now and then we get [...]
Was the stimulus a success, or a failure? That is something for the economic majors to debate. I do know that this summer, I saw a lot of construction and a lot of projects in the works on our crumbling infrastructure. Still, there is plenty of work to be done beyond just maintaining and improving [...]
As far as slanderous nicknames go, I always found treehugger to be one of the most creative. It really says it all, doesn’t it? Of course, treehugger doesn’t have to have a negative connotation, and without treehuggers life would be a whole lot smoggier (and quite frankly, a lot less interesting). But what about bear [...]
The Japanese yen is currently trading strongly against the US dollar, having – as I write this – just come down from a 15-year high. This is bad news for any Japanese manufacturer hoping to sell small cars in the US, but it’s especially bad news for Mazda. Mazda has announced several potentially important new [...]
If you think hybrid-electric vehicles are a 21st Century exclusive, think again. General Motors showed off (working!) hybrid prototypes in the 1960′s… …and the technology was already more than 60 years old! Take a trip with me, into the forgotten history of hybrid cars, after the jump.
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