Hyundai Will Bring Avante Hybrid To Market In Mid-2009

Hyundai plans to begin mass production of a hybrid passenger car that uses the Avante badge. The hybrid Avante will be available to consumers by mid-2009. The Korean automaker also plans to introduce a mid-size hybrid Sonata model in 2010 and a fuel-cell model by 2012. Hyundai currently offers a single hybrid model, the [...]

Fiat To Enter Hybrid Production By 2011

Fiat has announced that it is developing both gasoline- and diesel-electric hybrid drive systems that could be in production by 2011. Fiat says that it is still in the “research phase” but expects that if all goes well, the hybrid power trains will enter production quickly. One of the company’s goals is to reduce CO2 [...]

Thermoelectrics Could Give PHEVs Help In Heating And Cooling

One of the biggest challenges the automakers face in the design of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) is the heating and cooling of the passenger compartment. Conventional vehicles draw heat generated from inefficient operation of the internal combustion engine into the passenger compartment.
PHEVs and EVs don’t generate much waste heat, especially when they are operating [...]

Passenger Cars Aren’t The Only Hybrids Around

Caterpillar has introduced the D7E, a 30-ton diesel-electric earthmover with a differential steering system. The D7E has no mechanical transmission, and uses variable-speed motors to provide a continuously variable transmission. The D7E does rely on hydraulics, supplemented by the vehicle’s regenerative braking capabilities to move its implements.
As an added bonus, the vehicle also runs its [...]

Hybrid Sports Cars Are Revving Up

With Tesla Motor Car’s announcement last week that it has commenced production of an all-electric sports car, interest is rising in high-performance vehicles that use alternative power. Tesla’s Roadster, which was first introduced in late 2006, was given a passing grade on its Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and the company hopes to push about [...]

Large Corporations Getting In On Hybrid Research and Testing

Large corporations like Exxon Mobile and Coca Cola are participating in hybrid vehicle research that may lead to longer battery life and better evaluations of vehicle performance.
Exxon Mobile is extending product development for a battery technology it initially created for mobile phones, to a variation that could be used in hybrid vehicle batteries. The [...]

Fuel Cell Vehicles Around The Corner, MB Does Cold Weather Testing

According to the major Japanese automakers, the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is still more than five years away. At a symposium on FCVs held earlier in March, representatives from Honda, Nissan and Toyota agreed that FVCs won’t be widely available until 2015. The automakers cite primary concerns over the vehicles’ durability, production [...]

Most Consumers Won’t Pay For Green Vehicle Technologies

A new study by JD Power and Associates shows that only 11 percent of US consumers are “very willing” to pay more for environmentally friendly vehicle technologies. A study of nearly 45,000 new car buyers found that those buyers most likely to pay a premium for green vehicles were female and were concentrated in the [...]

BMW May Bring Hybrid-Electric To US Market

BMW is reportedly considering a hybrid-electric for the US market in response to recently tightened CAFE regulations. Under the terms of the new regulations, BMW will be reclassified as a “large vehicle manufacturer” in 2012, meaning that it will be required to offer at least one zero CO2-emission vehicle in its product line. To meet [...]

Lotus Tri-Fuel Concept Makes An Appearance At Geneva Show

Sports car manufacturer Lotus showed its latest tri-fuel concept at the Geneva auto show. The Lotus Exige Tri-Fuel 270E can run on gasoline, ethanol or methanol. The company has been researching the production of carbon-neutral synthetic methanol. The system extracts CO2 from the atmosphere and combines it with hydrogen to power the vehicle.
The use of [...]

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