Video: Crash testing the Volvo FE Hybrid

Filed under: Hybrid, Volvo

Crash testing the Volvo FE Hybrid – Click above to watch video after the jump

Before Volvo releases a vehicle, whether it be a passenger sedan or a heavy-duty hybrid truck, the automaker always subjects it to a rigorous set of crash tests. Well, the Volvo FE Hybrid is no exception. With its [...]

Mirrored Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Seven years of bad luck if you crash? [w/video]

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, SMART

Apparatjik rocks the disco-ball Smart Fortwo – Click above to watch video after the jump

What happens if you take a Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, add a disco-ball finish and then throw in Electriconic Rock group Apparatjik? You get the mirrored two-seater shown above, as well as a rather odd video [...]

BREAKING: WSJ says crash data points to pedal misapplication in Toyota sudden acceleration cases

Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Lexus, Toyota

After receiving more than 3,000 reports of sudden acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the U.S. Department of Transportation has concluded that driver error was actually at fault. According to The Wall Street Journal, investigators analyzing different data recorders from Toyota vehicles found that at the time of these sudden acceleration crashes, [...]

Report: NHTSA investigating NH Toyota Highlander crash that killed four

Filed under: SUV, Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Toyota

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into an accident involving a Toyota Highlander that claimed the lives of four motorists last year. Stephen Lagakos was driving with his wife and mother in New Hampshire when the vehicle sped up, passed a number of other vehicles on [...]

Telsa co-founder Martin Eberhard involved in minor crash with Founders’ Series Roadster

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors

Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard took delivery of his Founders’ Series Tesla Roadster in the summer of 2008. Apparently, a 16-year-old without a driver’s license (and who might be an illegal resident) recently crashed into Eberhard’s electric vehicle and ended the fun drives, at least for a while. Eberhard himself is [...]

Study: Want to improve your odds of surviving a crash? Have another sammich

Filed under: Safety

There aren’t a lot of positives about being overweight, but a study by the University of Michigan shows that there could be one reason for the chunky among us to celebrate. U of M studied 300,000 traffic fatalities obtained from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between 1998 and 2008, and it has [...]