A Chevy Volt owned by Dee and Storm Connors in Barkhamsted, CT was caught in a garage fire and ruined along with the home-converted electric Suzuki Samurai that was parked there. Now more recently, the same Chevy Volt, which has remained sitting in the remains of the burnt out garage, has apparently reignited somehow. The [...]

Toyota Motor announced recent;y that they have sold their 1 millionth Prius in the United States. This is no surprise, as Toyota released September 2010 statistics revealing that it had sold over 2 million Priuses worldwide. Of those, 206,000 had been sold in Europe, 827,000 in Japan, and over 939,000 in the U.S., as well [...]

Federal authorities are considering removing any option of running in stealth mode in your electric and hybrid vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently setting a timetable on a bill passed by the Obama Administration that bans car manufacturers from producing vehicles with the option to shut off the noise makers installed in [...]

Las year GM assembled a 15-person board of drivers who would get to test the Chevy Volt in real world conditions over a three month period. One of those members, Lyle Dennis, drove a total of 5,100 miles between November 11 and February 9. In that period he only burned a total of 46 gallons [...]

The all-new HF model Honda Civic is the most fuel efficient of the non-hybridized Civics that will be available in the United States in 2012. Honda expects the HF, with its 1.8-liter i-VTEC engine, to earn EPA-estimated fuel economy of 41 miles per gallon on the highway. The HF will share its aerodynamics package with [...]

The nominees have been announced for the World Car of the Awards and the Chevy Volt, to some people’s surprise, was not listed among the 10 finalists. Why is it a surprise? Well, whether you like the Chevy Volt or not, it’s scooped more car awards than you can shake a gas pump at and [...]

Details on the Audi 2012 Audi Q5 Hybrid have been a little sparse since it gave last year’s LA Auto Show a pass. A problem that has been somewhat remedied by presentation Audi recently gave on the Q5 Hybrid’s batter pack. The air-cooled 1.3 kWh lithium-ion battery is made by Sanyo and has enough juice [...]

Porsche recently showed off their 918 Hybrid Racer in Detroit. The two-seater mid-engine coupé 918 RSR is a development from the 911 GT3 R hybrid and the design of the 918 Spyder combined in a super sports car, with a V8 engine taken from Porsche’s Spyder coupe that gets 563 horsepower at 10,300 RPM. There [...]

Audi will soon begin series production of the Audi A6 hybrid, its second hybrid model after the Q5 hybrid Quattro. The Audi A6 hybrid uses an efficient parallel hybrid concept, in that its combustion engine works together with an electric motor that delivers 33 kW and 211 Nm of torque. The electric motor sits directly [...]

Chrysler is not the number one brand name that comes to head when you think about hybrids. With their mix of here today, gone tomorrow hybrid models like the RAM, Aspen and Durango. But at this years Detroit Auto Show, Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler said “We will offer a hybrid variant of the 300 [...]