Bart Stupak, House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, sent an 11-page letter to James E. Lentz III, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A, that slammed Toyota for their response to the sticking Toyota accelerator problem.
The letter sates that Toyota was too quick to dismiss the possibility of their vehicles computer’s being the problem, that they [...]

Two U.S. law firms have teamed up to issue a class action lawsuit against Toyota for their vehicle with defective gas pedals, on behalf of several consumers.
The bizarre thing about the lawsuit is that it doesn’t seek to have Toyota recall and fix any of its cars that suffer from the defective pedals. No, Toyota [...]

Toyota will be recalling eight models in Europe in order to solve a potential accelerator pedal problem, and Honda has announced that it will recall Jazz models.
Is your car one of the models that’s been recalled?
Up to 1.8 million Toyota cars could be affected. The models involved are
• AYGO (Feb 2005 – Aug 2009)
• iQ [...]

According to the New York Times, GM has agreed to sell Saab to the small Dutch company, Spyker Cars.
Spyker, known for it’s high-end sports cars, will breathe new life into Saab, which otherwise, would probably ceased to exist.
GM Saab facilities, based in Sweden, had already initiated shutting down at the start of 2010. The sale [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made it official and announced today that greenhouse gases are harmful to people and that car emissions directly contribute to increased green house gases. In other words, all of the gas burning vehicles out there are directly responsible for making people sick.
Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator, stated that “greenhouse gases threaten [...]

Bright Automotive, a company that put itself on the map with its 100-mpg IDEA plug-in utility van, announced a new $1.4 million contract with the U.S. Army to build a plug-in hybrid for non-combat use. The PHEV will be built to lower Army fuel consumption. Its purpose is also going to help show how [...]

Progressive automaker Toyota announced recently that they will be contributing ten electric Priuses to the SmartGridCity project, the world’s first comprehensive smart grid demonstration. Toyota’s participation in the project will allow researchers to test how plug-in EVs can fit into a smart grid.
The project is being coordinated by Xcel Energy and the Renewable and Sustainable [...]

Toyota has just issued a massive recall of 3.8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles due to potentially lethal floor mats.
An advisory has been issued that strongly suggests that drivers of the recalled vehicles remove the mats until they can be replaced.
The mats apparently led to the Toyota recall because of their propensity to force the [...]

For the fifth year in a row BMW has won the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World award for Greenest Automaker of the Year. It’s odd since when most people think of green cars, their minds probably don’t jump to BMW, but in the eyes of Dow Jones, when you look at the full life cycle [...]

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 [...]