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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.
The Truth About Cars blog is reporting that Japan is busy laying the groundwork for a next-generation EV infrastructure that will integrate electric vehicle systems with the nation’s power grid, enabling power to freely flow to (and from) future EVs. More about what TTAC is calling “EV 2.0″, after the jump.
That’s my friend, Frankie, getting ready to set off on a test-ride of Current Motors’ new all-electric maxi-scooter, which promises a practical driving range of 90 miles on a single charge from a proprietary system developed by ex-Chrysler engineers. In short: it may be small, it may be humble, but Current Motors is for real. [...]
Last week, I wrote a post about the EPA’s proposed new-vehicle window stickers, which issue a (controversial) letter-grade to different new cars, and wondered how different cars would actually be graded, in practice. The first “sample” grades are in… …let the questions begin. More cars, and grades C-D, after the jump.
Last week, the guys at Roush Performance Products proved that propane could be a winner at the NCMA Muscle Car Nationals at the Milan (Michigan) Dragway. With a “perfect” 0.00 reaction-time, driver Donnie Bowles drove his propane-powered Roush Racing Mustang across the quarter-mile track in 10.580 seconds at 121.00 miles per hour! Read the official press [...]
The Peel P50 was built on the Isle of Man in the 1960′s and powered by a 49cc gas engine that pushed the car to a 40 mph top speed and delivered more than 80 mpg. It was the smallest production automobile ever built, and—despite only 70 examples being produced —has become wildly popular in [...]
When it was introduced several years ago, Mercedes’ ultra-luxury Maybach line was originally intended to compete with offerings from BMW’s Rolls-Royce and Volkswagen’s Bentley. To put it mildly: Maybach flopped, selling only a fraction of the cars Rolls and Bentley did year after year. Maybach was such a spectacular failure that many industry analysts predicted [...]
