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.
Rio De Janeiro is set to host the 2016 Olympic Games, and – like many Olympic host cities – is working hard to finish a number of civic construction projects in a bid to put its best foot forward when it meets the international crowds that always follow the Games. Many of those projects will [...]
Since their introduction last year, Russia’s home-grown, natural-gas fuelled hybrid Yo Mobiles (built by Yo Auto) have been trying hard to capture the imagination of Russia’s car-buying public; and how have the Russian people responded, you ask? By putting down deposits on more than 100,000 Yo Mobiles – which means that each and every car [...]
Mercedes-Benz’ parent company, Daimler, and electronics supplier Bosch announced their joint-venture to build electric vehicle “engines” earlier this year, but now it’s official – and officially has a name: EM Motive. Mercedes-focused blog BenzInsider is reporting that the newly-formed EM Motive has plans to build electric of a modular design that – in theory – [...]
Regular Gas 2.0 readers (I still like “Gas2ronaughts”) are well aware that I snatch every opportunity I get to write about new Lancia products – be it the new Multi-Air, stop/start equipped Delta or proposed, 40 mpg Ypsilon-based luxury compact – so I was surprised when I checked in on the Mopar-specific Allpar and found [...]
One of the many hidden costs of car ownership are repairs. So as cars get more complicated, repair costs are bound to go up. Cars.com recently paid over $14,000, and waited nine weeks, to get their Chevy Volt back from the repair shop after a front-end collision.
Sometimes called “the last cowboys,” many truckers are not happy about the end of the era of cheap oil. Their trucking firms are slowing big rigs down, rewarding drivers to get better gas mileage, and punishing those with a lead foot. Oil prices affect the cost of everything, especially those items shipped overland via big [...]
A vending machine stuffed with bicycle parts? Freakin’ brilliant!
A group of high school students, using a kit car body designed for high performance, managed to win the Green Grand Prix rally back in April by getting 160 mpg using an old VW engine running on biodiesel and a home-built hybrid system.
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