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Porsche’s 911 Test “Hybrid”
Posted on February, 21 at 5:18 pm | Filed Under Future Cars, Hybrid Cars
Last week, Porsche introduced its , featuring the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). It will be formally unveiled at next month’s Geneva auto show, exactly 100 years after Ferdinand Porsche launched the world’s first hybrid car, the Lohner Porsche Semper Vivus. In May, it will race in the 24-hour Nürburgring, the track of which is [...]
Green Cars Highlight the DC Auto Show
Posted on February, 5 at 5:59 pm | Filed Under Hybrid Cars
In a speech at last week’s DC Auto Show, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said “We have to bring back manufacturing [to the US].” We are lagging the Japanese and Chinese. (“It’s startling how much manufacturing is happening in China now.”) That, and weening ourselves off our addiction to foreign fuel, is why the Department of [...]
Toyota Recall Gets Personal
Posted on January, 31 at 9:16 pm | Filed Under Latest News
Yesterday Toyota announced the recall of another 1.9 million vehicles for “pedal entrapment” issues, bringing the total to 9 million cars worldwide. This is the second largest ever, to Ford’s recall of 14 million cars with faulty cruise control switches in 2009. So far in the US, over 2,100 cases of sudden acceleration have been [...]
HK Plant to Open in Alabama
Posted on January, 26 at 8:55 am | Filed Under Latest News
This week, Chinese automaker Hybrid Kinetic Motors announced plans to open a plant in Alabama later this year. This is great news for at least 6,000 autoworkers laid off in 2009 by the Big Three, not to speak of the numerous suppliers that will be needed to support production. It’s good news for the environment [...]