Are green cars considered feminine? Advertisers may be to blame

Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, USA

According to a recent study, companies hawking green wares may need to change their marketing strategies. OgilvyEarth, a consulting group specializing in sustainability, just released the results of their research called “Mainstream Green: Moving sustainability from niche to normal.” It turns out that 82 percent of Americans intend to be [...]

Report: Tata Pixel given European green light

Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Geneva Motor Show, Europe, Hatchback, Tata, Diesel

2011 Tata Pixel Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

Tata Motors has reportedly approved the Tata Pixel, a microcar concept it showed off at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, for production. The minute Pixel is advertised as the most efficiently-packaged four-seater in the [...]

Happy Holidays from AutoblogGreen; enjoy this Green Car Concept Puzzle

Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, AutoblogGreen Exclusive

As many people around the world take time today to celebrate with family and friends, we thought we’d offer our loyal AutoblogGreen readers a little something different: a puzzle game to try and identify some of the quirkiest concepts of the past few years. Some are pretty easy. Some [...]

Next Green Car launches “Approved” vehicle list

Filed under: Biodiesel, Diesel, Ethanol, EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Natural Gas

Next Green Car approved vehicles – Click above to view entire list

Let’s say you’re looking to buy a new vehicle and have decided that it’s time to get behind the wheel of a “greener” ride. Aside from spending hours online researching autos, how can you determine [...]

Go Green Eco Taxi transports passengers in “chic electric style”

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

Go Green Eco Taxi

Plug In America member Sara Bissig and her husband Jimmy operate Go Green Eco Taxi, located in the Woodlands community north of Houston, TX. Go Green Eco Taxi is quite different from your-run-of-the-mill taxi service because the company delivers passengers to-and-fro in “clean, chic electric [...]

Finland hopes to build world’s first carbon-neutral green highway

Filed under: Biodiesel, EV/Plug-in, Green Daily

While it’s easy for us to suggest that the car-buying public should adopt cleaner, alternative-fuel vehicles, the fact that a supporting infrastructure for many of these new technologies does not yet exist makes widespread adoption uncertain. Finland hopes to change the infrastructure-free trend by building out a carbon-neutral green highway [...]

AT&T’s green fleet hits milestone of 1,500 CNG and 2,000 alternative fuel vehicles

Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Natural Gas, Green Daily

As corporate fleets across the globe have slowly transformed into a paradise for green cars, finding a company that hasn’t revamped at least a portion of its vehicles over to greener technology is becoming harder and harder. Though AT&T would not be considered pioneers in the drive towards [...]

Report: Volkswagen Bluesport gets the green light

Filed under: Concept Cars, Convertible, Budget, Performance, Europe, Plants/Manufacturing, Volkswagen, Rumormill, Diesel

Volkswagen BlueSport Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

Now this is interesting. Hot on the heels of rumored turmoil in the VW/Audi/Porsche house over the BlueSport roadster, AutoExpress is reporting that VW has given the droptop concept the green light for production. Color [...]

Review: 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid makes being green easy

Filed under: Hybrid, Crossover, Reviews

2010 Ford Escape Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery

The Ford Escape Hybrid was the first mass-produced battery-assisted SUV on the market when it launched in 2004, and from day one it’s delivered on Ford’s promise of class-leading economy. It also offered similar performance and handling to its gas-powered counterparts [...]

M-Org Chopper Concept is green, organic, hard to describe

Filed under: Concept Cars, Motorcycle, Design/Style

M-Org Custom Motorcycle Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

Honestly, we don’t know what it means to have a “frame, suspension and steering grown from organic substances,” but whatever it is, you can see it in the image above. Looks kinda cool, no? Designer Michael Smolyanov describes a process [...]

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