Posts Tagged ‘green car’
The 2010 Toyota Prius is in fairly short supply all over the world, and its U.S. sales are trouncing those of the 2010 Honda Insight, its competitor in the arena of dedicated hybrid hatchbacks. So perhaps it’s not that surprising that Toyota doesn’t feel the need to sell the lowest-spec 2010 Prius at retail. Instead, it will offer small numbers of…
Today we were in Michigan to learn quite a lot about the 2011 Ford Fiesta–absolutely none of which we’re allowed to share with you today. (Soon, soon!) Yesterday, though, Ford’s George Pipas presented data to journalists in New York that shows what Ford thinks about the future of small vehicles. The bottom line: By 2013, he said, small vehicles…
Several months ago, we previewed Car2Go, the car-sharing program planned in Austin, Texas, featuring Smart ForTwo mini-cars. Now a pilot program with 200 Smarts has launched for the 13,000 employees of the city of Austin. It’s the first U.S. version of a scheme that started in March in Ulm, Germany. The cost there is 19 cents a minute, with a…
While Mercedes-Benz has focused its first green marketing efforts on the undeniably impressive 2010 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid, it was joined by a second hybrid Benz that went on sale earlier this month after previewing in April at the New York Auto Show. The 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid brings better fuel efficiency to its popular line of ML…
For 2010, BMW is releasing two hybrid vehicles that are very different both in style and in their approach to using electric power to assist the gasoline engine. We’ve already covered the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 “sports activity coupe”, which uses the Two-Mode Hybrid system jointly developed by General Motors, Daimler, Chrysler, and BMW. BMW’s…
As planning for the arrival of plug-in cars accelerates, electric utilities need to know which of their customers intend to hook their vehicle up to the power grid every day. Now Southern California Edison, the 123-year-old electric utility that serves 5 million customers in and around Los Angeles, is asking them directly. The company has launched…