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.
Two more days till Turkey time! It will be a short news week, but it won’t be short on interesting ideas or projects (is it ever?) Some of today’s highlights include the price of the 2013 Chevy Malibu ECO, the Ford Transit Connect EV Wagon, and the Volkswagen R Cars to go Diesel. 2013 Chevy [...]
Electric cars just got an injection of sexy. Stop envisioning the four-door sedan popular with the granola crunchy crowd and start thinking sleek, fast and sexy. And bonus, it costs next to nothing to operate.
There are always going to be dreamers and artists who remained tethered to reality only by the taxes and bills they must pay. This means all sorts of concept vehicles and designs are coming out on a regular basis and very, very few every make it beyond a scale clay model. But the Rimac Automobilii [...]
The Chevy Volt has its supporters, and its detractors. You can famed car enthusiast and talk show host Jay Leno as an avid supporter. The late-night funnyman has wracked up a whooping 11,000 miles in his Chevy Volt in the past year…without adding a single drop of gas. Saving Gas, Saving Money According to Leno, [...]
aIt is going to be a short week, dear readers, because everybody’s favorite food-basted holiday, Thanksgiving, is just a few days away. So what is the green world up to these days? Some highlights include the Navy’s biofuel battle cruiser, removing sidewalks slows cars, and a Killer Wasp electric ATV. U.S. Navy Tests 50/50 Blend [...]
Looking like the steampunk love-child of a Segway and an old English penny-farthing bicycle, Ayrton and Perry’s electric car offered its owners quiet operation and a top speed of 9 (nine) mph – courtesy of its 0.5kW vertical electric motor and 7.5Ah battery. Nine miles-per-hour may not seem too impressive today, but when the Ayrton [...]
As many of you know, Mercedes’ current SL class sportscar has some pretty Serious sporting potential. Even with the nearly 1000 hp available from the SLs twin-turbo V12 engine, however, the 2003-2012 R230 chassis SL class is not a car you’d probably describe as “nimble”. It’s not that Mercedes doesn’t know how to make cars [...]
Somewhat lost in the hubbub of last week’s LA Auto Show and EICMA news was Ford’s reveal of the production version of its upcoming 1.0L turbocharged Ecoboost engine, set to see duty in Ford’s Fiesta, Focus, and Transit Connect models as early as next year. Ford first began doling out the details of the Motor [...]
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