Electric Vehicle

Since 2004, Toyota has attempted to entice its buyers with the tagline, "Moving Forward." Starting on December 31 of this year, the Japanese automaker will introduce its latest advertising one-liner: "Let’s Go Places." Toyota’s latest slogan gained inspiration from its customers, and the direction the automaker is headed moving forward. ...    Read more

It's been years since Cadillac had a unique, proper coupe of its own—and not just the CTS Coupe, which shares its bones with the CTS Sedan and Wagon. Think Eldorado here. Think Elvis. If Elvis was still around today, would he roll in a Cadillac ELR? ...    Read more

News source Reuters recently wrote an article about the Chevrolet Volt's cost-prohibitive manufacturing. The wire says a $40,000 Volt can cost up to $89,000 to make, meaning it's the latest in a long line of General Motors products to cost more money to make than GM can off-load it for. Detailed ...    Read more

Sales for the Chevrolet Volt hybrid electric car have surged the past few months. Most in the press attributed the increase to California allowing Chevy Volt owners access to the HOV, or carpool, lanes in the state. But there may be another reason: incentives. General Motors is currently offering a ...    Read more

The term "range anxiety" was created by now-Fisker CEO Tony Posawatz to describe what electric car drivers would feel as their range ticked down with little hope of finding a charging station. One part fear mongering and many more parts truth, there's little an electric car driver can do when ...    Read more

Honda's new Accord could be the biggest new car debut this year. This ninth-generation Accord gets completely redesigned: bigger on the inside, smaller on the outside, with more power and features and practicality to virtually assure it a whole heap of awards. And for 2013, we see the return of ...    Read more

So you can defeat the final boss in Gears of War while simultaneously eating Cheetos and downing countless bottles of Coke, huh? Well, a new study says that your mad multitasking gaming skillz won't make you any better at using a cell phone while driving. The study by the Visual ...    Read more

Though some people may think otherwise, General Motors ain’t no dummy. But they sure know a lot about them. GM began designing a crash test dummy for front impact testing in 1977 that 20 years later become an industry-wide standard. In 1997, Hybrid III crash test dummies, as they became ...    Read more

From a high of 2,289 sold in March, Chevrolet Volt sales have been climbing steadily since then: it's already sold more through this July than all of last year. But that's evidently not enough for GM, which is planning to pause production of the Volt at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, for almost ...    Read more

Almost two years after the initial talks began, Hertz Global Holdings had finally come to an agreement to purchase Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for $2.3 billion. The deal, announced late last night, almost never happened thanks to an appealing bid from Avis Budget Group. That competition was halted in June ...    Read more

According to a study conducted by Strategic Vision, Toyota receives the least amount of complaints from its customers while Volkswagen Group of America has the best quality product. Results of the 2012 Total Quality Index study showed that Toyota had the lowest reported problems, good for a “Problem Impact Measure” ...    Read more

It’s been a long way back on the road to recovery for Honda. The Japanese automaker had one of its toughest years on record in 2011 after the tsunami and earthquakes ravaged its home country. The natural disaster brought Honda’s vehicle production to a halt and as a result, sales ...    Read more

You might not know it, but there may be a little black box that rides along with you recording your vehicle’s every move. No, you’re not being trailed by some secret government spy; in fact, most vehicles have been using a black box to record vehicle data for over a ...    Read more

If you want to see a congested city, see San Francisco, California. With an estimated 448,000 parking spots, you wouldn't think finding a place for a car would be too tough. Except there are more than 50,000 cars in the city than there are spots in which to park them. ...    Read more

It takes a special breed of person to work in customer service, and that goes double for the automotive industry. The general public expects to hop into their vehicles every morning, turn the key, and go off on their merry ways. Most don’t realize that by turning that key, you ...    Read more

Since its introduction in 2011, the Nissan Leaf has become the best-selling electric car in the world, amassing more than 30,000 sales worldwide. Yet, that number isn't where Nissan wants it to be. In fact, despite the new technology and high price of it, there are rumblings that the car's ...    Read more

If you're Fisker Automotive, Karma really has been a...difficult process. After launching its first car, the 2012 Fisker Karma, at the beginning of this year, the automaker has struggled with quality issues, political posturing that has shunted Department of Energy startup loans, and logistical issues of where to built its next ...    Read more

Although it can easily be overlooked, a vast majority of drivers in all 50 states are buckling their seatbelts before driving away. In total, 84 percent of all occupants set to traverse U.S. roads are buckling up, down one percent from the year before. The study was conducted by the ...    Read more

It was once said in the depths of the recession last decade that manufacturing jobs were gone from American soil, never to return. That might have been jumping the gun a bit, though. Since 2009—the U.S. economy's recent lowpoint—the auto industry has added 236,000 jobs, 165,100 of which are manufacturing- ...    Read more

Mitsubishi is recalling all 2012 i-MiEV units assembled between November 4, 2011, and December 22, 2011 over concerns of a defective air bag sensor. The potential number of vehicles affected is believed to be 261 units. While that number doesn't sound large, there have been 446 i-MiEV units sold at ...    Read more

Like Charles Darwin--or the myriad automotive nameplates at the beginning of the 20th century--cars are at a dramatic "survival of the fittest" moment. For hybrids, electric vehicles, hydrogen, natural gas, and other forms of fuel-efficient propulsion, some factors will weed out the weak ones: a long range, easy refueling, and ...    Read more

For Ford, 47, not 42, is the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ford C-MAX hybrid gets 47 mpg in the city, 47 mpg highway, and—we'll award a consolation prize if you don't get this one—a 47 mpg combined mileage rating from the ...    Read more

Not too long ago, Consumer Reports picked up a new Ford Focus Electric. It has a 76-mile range; the publication had to drive it 100 miles. Something had to give. So the publication drove it as far as it realistically thought it could, ran out of battery power on the way ...    Read more

BMW, a major sponsor of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, is looking to make the games a little more efficient with help from something small in stature. Meet Mini, the radio controlled electric car that is a quarter scale in size to its full-size sibling with the same name ...    Read more

Volkswagen and Audi had a July for the record books as both German automakers, both owned by the same parent company, set new high marks in the United States. Pacing VW's sales was the Passat, which moved 9,007 units and contributed to a total of 37,014 units sold across the ...    Read more