What Are Your Bad Driving Habits?
Bad drivers come in every shape, size, age and gender. There are always those stereotypical terrible drivers that you do not like to see on the road. Although you complain about their driving, how well do you know your own driving? Take a look at the 10 worst driving habits…
Meet the Meanest and Greenest Cars on the Market
The Mercedes-Benz Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Convertible/Coupe has been named the “Greenest” vehicle in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 18th annual comprehensive environmental rating list for vehicles. The publication of the 2015 ratings was released to coincide with the unveiling of ACEEE’s brand new greenercars.org website, which…
Best “Green” Car To Buy in 2015
It’s the 2015 Volkswagen Golf, according to Green Car Reports. Their Best Car To Buy award can go one of several ways. Sometimes it goes to a moonshot car, like the first Nissan Leaf (in 2011) or the Tesla Model S (in 2013). Those are cars that radically redefined what…
Toyota Continues to Run Away From Electric Vehicles
Toyota has a decisive strategy in place in terms of alternative power trains. Rather than focusing on all-electric vehicles, the company continues to focus on hydrogen fuel cells. At the Los Angeles auto show, Toyota executives planned to elaborate on the company’s deepening investments in fuel-cell vehicles, after a weekend…
Sales of Electric Vehicles Soaring in US
More and more American consumers are plugged in to the green movement than ever before! Last month, plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) made up the highest percentage ever tallied of total vehicles sold in the United States. This is news for optimism. For an environmental group like the Sierra Club, it…
2016 Mercedes-Benz S550 Plug-In Hybrid Arriving in U.S. Next Spring
The team at Green Car Reports has driven a prototype of the U.S.-spec car, reporting that is is quiet, luxurious, and likely to carry a six-figure price tag. And it will be followed within a year by two more plug-in hybrids using the same powertrain: a smaller C-Class sedan, and…
Bluebird Sports and Race Cars Go Electric
The only thing better than an electric car is an electric sports car!! Another day, another EV sports car concept from out of the ether? Well, yes and no – Bluebird should be a familiar name to anyone with even a passing interest in land speed record history. A series…
The Push to Sell Green Cars
Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to sell zero-emission vehicles to US consumers who haven’t shown much interest in them, with more states following California’s lead in setting sales targets. Nine states, including New York and New Jersey, have adopted versions of California’s goal of having electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen-powered models reach…
A Car that Runs on Chocolate?
No it is not an April fools joke! Scientists unveiled on Tuesday what they hope will be one of the world’s fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers. Its makers hope the racer will go 145 mph and give manufacturers ideas about…