Better Place is a green-minded start-up that wants to bring electric car charging and battery swapping stations to the masses. Recently, they announced a partnership with Tokyo’s Nihon Kotsu taxi company. The taxi fleet will be the first to go all-electric with swappable batteries. The partners will get started on this ambitious pilot project using [...]

Toyota is recalling about 95,700 2009 and 2010 model year Toyota Corolla, Corolla Matrix and 2008 and 2009 Scion xD vehicles sold in the US because ice could accumulate on their braking systems, making slowing down dangerous for drivers. The recall involves all equipped with 1.8 liter engines, the company said in a statement on [...]

CO2 emissions from a car, truck or SUV are likely to be a significant part of your carbon footprint. But transportation is an essential part of every day life– which presents green minded people with a moral (and practical) dilemma: is it possible to be an eco-friendly driver? The answer is, absolutely. Here’s a look [...]

Build Your Dream (BYD), has repealed its decision to push it’s electric vehicle launch in North America back. It has now been reset to its original launch time of next year. The announcement that BYD’s electric vehicles would be back on schedule could have to do with the increasingly competitive electric car market. Most recently, [...]

Today, General Motors released two interior photos to coincide with the Chevy Cruze’s unveiling at the Paris Motor Show this week. And can we just say that the interior looks swank? With tweed-like fabric covers and slick colored panels along with a slick, centrally-located LCD screen, the Cruze definitely trumps the Colbalt in design. Chief [...]

It was over half a year ago that Tesla announced an amped up version of the Tesla Roadster would be made available in the Tesla Roadster Sport. Since then we hadn’t heard much of the Sport and we had seen even less. In fact, the new images that have just been released, mark the first [...]

Last year Tesla Motors announced that they would be moving their head offices from San Carlos, CA to San Jose. Then the economic meltdown happened and dried up all the funding required to make the move. Now, with the aid of low-cost loans from the DOE, they are prepared with a new plan to move [...]

GM seriously got the hype machine working overtime when they found out that based on new DOE formulas, the 2011 Chevy Volt would be capable of 230 MPG. Now Nissan has played the same game with new DOE formulas and have come up with an MPG rating for their forthcoming electric vehicle the Nissan Leaf. [...]

It didn’t take long for the Cash for Clunkers voucher idea to go from concept to reality. It was just earlier this week that Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), contacted the Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, petitioning him to let people looking to take advantage of the Cash for Clunkers program, [...]

Although this news doesn’t exactly fall under the “eco” category – we here at Eco Auto Ninjas are a bunch of traffic whores and all the Google Trend rage for today is “free car media.” Basically, free car media is where you get paid to drive provided you drive a car wrapped in advertising. This [...]