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Could be. If you don’t know what “range anxiety” is, don’t fear – I didn’t either until I stumbled upon this news article from MSNBC. Range anxiety is the idea that people will get anxious of a full electric vehicle’s range and get stranded in the middle of nowhere without a power station in [...]

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The new 2011 Ford Mustang isn’t your typical muscle car – it doesn’t eat gas, for one, and for another it’s actually a pretty rad car. According to the EPA, the new V6 Mustang gets 305 horsepower and 31 miles per gallon [...]

Rolling chassis are not uncommon – makers such as Rolls Royce and Cadillac have previously offered rolling chassis options for specialty coachbuilders to add custom bodies and the like. However, the idea has died out in recent years, due mainly to cost and the fact that the average consumer doesn’t care a whole lot [...]

According to Automotive Digest, corporate fleets in the United States typically buy about 300,000 vehicles per year, and more and more fleets are looking at hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles for their fleets as they cut costs considerably. Electric and hybrid cargo van producers are looking for more interested fleet buyers, but they’re running [...]

Wait…what?

Yeah, apparently there’s a market out there for cars that run on algae. The green stuff that accumulates in your fish tank when you don’t clean it. It’s called cellulosic biofuel, and companies that specialize in it are asking the Senate Finance Committee to include them in future legislation. Two huge players in the [...]

The Royal Dutch Shell Company has said that by 2050, 40% of its entire worldwide fleet will be full-electric vehicles. Peter Voser, the CEO for Shell, spoke at the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics conference in Santa Barbara this past week, and said that technological improvements as well as the increase in the cost of [...]

Apparently Brazil has built its ten millionth flex-fuel vehicle, which is fueled by sugarcane-based ethanol blends from an industry that currently has no government subsidies. Taxpayers in the United States, however, are subsidizing an inefficient corn-based ethanol which is costing them almost $4 billion per year, and farming lobbyists want even more subsidies by [...]

ZAP won a huge contract with the United States Postal Service, and now Bright Automotive has followed in its footsteps. Bright will be doing all the electric truck conversions for a section of the post office’s national fleet of what are known as “Long Life Vehicles,” and unlike their plug-in hybrid, the IDEA, these [...]

According to the Detroit News this past week, Dow Chemical is bringing new jobs to Michigan, which it could really use. Millions of investment dollars are coming from Dow and its partners, says the Michigan Economic Development Corp, and the jobs will revolve around manufacturing lithium-polymer batteries for full-electric vehicles. The main place that [...]

Toyota is currently in the midst of three different major safety recalls and have given repeated apologies to customers by means of television, print, radio and even the internet, though this still hasn’t stemmed the floods that Toyota has created. Automobile transporters have seen just how bad Toyota has been doing as less people [...]