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Toyota's plans to run a Prius on Lithium-ion batteries have hit a roadblock. Launch of the new Toyota Prius that was to run on Lithium-ion batteries has been pushed back to 2011, instead of the previously planned 2008 models year.
Toyota had to take...
Fuel Cell vehicles have faced a lot of trouble, even from environmentalists. The cost, the technology, refueling and hydrogen pumps have all come in the line of fire and many have declared the technology itself as 'not feasible'. Prohibitive costs have...
World Solar Challenge has been designed to showcase advancements in solar energy and other alternate fuels for transport needs. The challenge runs 3,021kms in Australia, stretching from Darwin to Adelaide.
GM has sponsored University of Michigan's...
Alan Mulally recently said that Ford plug-ins would be available in showrooms in the next 5 to 10 years. He also officially announced Ford's alliance with the utility Southern California Edison to test 20 rechargeable electric vehicles.
Twenty 2008...
What does a big name like Google do with their money when they have lots of it? Yup, they plan to invest it for the betterment and of course, for the profits. Internet search giant Google hopes to pace-up the development of plug-in hybrid cars by giving...
Imagine of becoming amongst the selected few driving hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles in many test areas across the globe within five or six years! It is not a dream any more. General Motors Corp. is bracing up to make it a reality for the...
GM's Chevy Sequel has now become the very first electrically-driven hydrogen vehicle to move 300 miles on just one tank of hydrogen, and that too on public roads producing zero emissions.
The long 300-mile ride started at General Motors' Fuel...
GM is well on target as far as its commitment of developing transportation that reduces oil use and encourages energy miscellany. Automotive experts were spraying notions that the Chevrolet Volt concept, first exhibited at January's Detroit Auto Show...
In an attempt to push forth the new strategy of finding alternatives to petrol, GM Motors (GM) is anticipating the serial manufacturing of a hydrogen car by 2010. Though chief engineer at GM stated that hydrogen infra-structure would not be in place by...
Automotive experts worldwide interpret the Detroit Auto Show better than the one slated to be held in Los Angeles. It seems General Motors also believes in this convention as a rumor has it, that it is saving its better or rather major hand-outs for the...
So many years of driving as a bachelor has made me understand that the worst part about it is that I run out of gas and as if god every time adds salt to my wounds, I am broke... The only thought which comes to my mind , forget the negative ones , talking...
GM Corp. will build 100 hydrogen-fuel cell SUVs next year, for drivers on the east and west coast. . This move from GM is seen as a step to counter the severe criticism they have been facing pertaining to GM vehicles using too much off gasoline,...
GM's Prototype for a hydrogen Fuel cell vehicle dubbed the Sequel will now bear The Chevrolet moniker. This was announced by the GM's vice president of R&D Larry Burns.
Now dubbed the Chevrolet Sequel, it is the most technologically developed...
It seems the three global car-producing giants did not have any other option, other than joining hands to catch up with Toyota's (the Japanese auto giant) hybrid technology development pace.
They have decided to spend $1 billion together on...
You might have gazed at the concept of Sequel in last year's Detroit Auto Show. Good news is that the car is now fully functioning. What sets this one apart from the various other GM hydrogen fleet is its design. The car comes without any engine up...
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