President Barack Obama, seen above at the Washington Auto Show Tuesday, hailed the triumphant rebound of the U.S. auto industry. Obama sat inside a 2013 Ford C-Max Energi, which won this year’s Green Car Vision Award, among some gas guzzling trucks, SUVs and muscle cars made by General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. “The U.S. auto [...]

Chalk up another win for Ford as they take home the Green Car Journal Green Car Vision award for the second year in a row at the Washington Auto Show. The Ford C-Max Energi has indeed been turning many heads and other still are awaiting the 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid that will become available this [...]

2012 buyers of the Chevy Volt, a hybrid-electric vehicle introduced in 2010, will now be allowed to drive in the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane in the state of California. Previously sold Chevy Volts did not qualify to receive the sticker required for this privilege. Recent adaptations made for the 2012 model will now allow [...]

In Ottawa, Canada, a Mike Nemat is fighting with his condominium complex about charging his electric car, a Chevy Volt. The residents of the complex split the electric bill for the whole complex, so they do not want all the owners to have to pay for his car. He is arguing that charging the car [...]

Heather Peters, a former litigation lawyer, feels that she’s a groundbreaker, and hopes others will follow her by filing small claims lawsuits against Honda for deceptive advertising on Honda Civic Hybrid vehicles. Honda advertised on window stickers that vehicles would get 42 mpg., when the actual mileage was more like 32 mpg. Heather owns a [...]

California air pollution has kept law makers and particularly Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resource Board, very busy. As we all know, air pollution has been a growing problem, but it seems they have finally found a solution to move in the right direction. Something that many believe will greatly reduce air pollution. [...]

Tremendous amounts of water is used in most manufacturing, and auto makers are right up there as main offenders when it comes to massive water use and waste. In fact, some studies suggest that every new car built require 40,000 gallons of water. Auto giants Ford Motors recently announced some new goals for 2015. They [...]

Hybrid and electric vehicles are going to increase in numbers, but are those numbers high enough? Hybrid electric vehicles and EVs combined will represent 3.1% of worldwide auto sales by 2017, according to a new report from Pike Research. These kind of cars will account for 5.1% of total US vehicle sales in 2017, due [...]

Congresswoman Bachmann has recently stated that as part of her bid for the Republican presidential nomination she pledges to reduce the cost of gasoline for American drivers to under $2/gallon of gas. Since the average price at the pump right now is $3.58/gallon, this is a very bold claim and it of course begs the [...]

As expected, the Obama Administration set an official Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) target for 2025 at 54.5 MPG. While this is down from earlier expected numbers that went as high as 62 MPG, it’s still a substantial increase that seems to have found a happy medium for opposing voices. President Obama made the announcement [...]