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Hyundai boosted by early hybrid success

The world’s first production hybrid electric vehicle to be powered by a liquefied petroleum injected (LPI) engine has proven an instant sales success for its manufacturer. Hyundai Motor Corporation has received more than 1,000 pre-sale orders for the Avente/Elantra LPI hybrid since June 17 ahead of the car going on sale in South Korea on July [...]

Volvo fuel cell technology offers jobs boost

Not only could fuel cell technology help to clean up the earth’s atmosphere, but it is providing a boost to the economy too. The Volvo Group has teamed up with the Swedish Energy Agency and international corporations Midroc and OCAS to invest £15.7million into the development of fuel cells - a move that is expected to [...]

Electric vehicles put to test in Paris; Italy news

Paris is known as the city of romance, and now the Renault-Nissan Alliance and EDF Energy hope that its residents will fall in love with electric cars. The alliance and the French energy company are planning a large-scale electric vehicle test in the region that will run for one year beginning in September, 2010. During this [...]

First ever hybrid electric bus trial in Australia

The state of Victoria will play host to Australia’s first ever hybrid-electric bus trial which will involve two outer suburban routes at a cost of A$500,000. The trial is meant to assess the viability of both parallel- and series-hybrid buses in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases in the transport sector. It has been established after [...]

Could discovery impact clean transportation fuels?

Discovery of the zeolite catalyst ZSM-22 could have an impact on the production of cleaner transportation fuels from natural gas or biomass. The catalyst, which was previously believed to be inactive in the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Oslo in Norway. It yields a unique hydrocarbon product [...]

Report: GM orders cells for 100,000 hybrids

Hitachi Limited in Japan is set to spend an estimated Y20-30billion to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries as it targets a 70-fold increase in production capacity by 2015. The report in the Nikkei suggests that the company will raise capacity by 600 per cent next autumn on the back of receiving enough orders of lithium-ion [...]

Survey says: green cars are in

If you thought that the surging popularity of green cars was all down to drivers looking to save a bit of cash, then it might be time to re-evaluate. After all, market research firm Synovate has released a study showing that nearly six in 10 people would choose to buy a green car over a [...]

EPA grants California emissions waiver

The US state of California has been granted a waiver request enabling it to enforce its own greenhouse gas emissions standard for new cars starting with the current model year. The request has been granted by the US Environmental Agency (EPA) after it found that California’s car manufacturers are already in compliance with the MY2009 Pavley [...]

BMW X1 headed to North America

It is already scheduled to debut in Europe this autumn, and now BMW has confirmed that it’s eagerly anticipated BMW X1 vehicle will arrive in the United States by calendar year 2011. The X1 offers the flexibility of a traditional rear-wheel drive vehicle and an xDrive all-wheel drive configuration. It also has a wide variety of [...]

Bosch: electrification is coming

The dominance of the internal combustion engine will remain intact over the next 20 years - but full electric powertrains will at some point become pervasive according to Robert Bosch GmbH executives speaking at their annual International Automotive Press Briefing. The executives believe that there are still important technological challenges for powertrain electrification to overcome and [...]