New art reimagines U.S. road network system as a subway map

Filed under: Etc., Design/Style

As a graphic designer for nearly 20 years, Cameron Booth credits his deep and abiding love for transit maps to his dad’s obsession with trains. The Australian-born, Portland, Oregon-based artist has adapted the infographic aesthetic of subway maps to America’s road networks, creating some beautiful new artwork in the process.
We think Booth’s [...]

Mitsubishi i sales plan moved up in U.S., Mirage EV coming in 2013

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, USA

Why wait? That’s the question that Mitsubishi president Osamu Masuko doesn’t want Americans asking when it comes to purchasing a brand new Mitsubishi i. Thus, he has reportedly moved the nationwide on-sale date for the better-than-you-thought i in the U.S. from the end of 2012 to the middle of next year. [...]

U.S. Chevy Spark revealed ahead of Los Angeles show

Filed under: LA Auto Show, Budget, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Design/Style

On Wednesday, the 2013 Chevrolet Spark will be unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The small hatchback has been tweaked for the North American market, and the hope is that the Spark takes off like wildfire with buyers. Chevrolet thinks the Spark will find favor with [...]

McLaren MP4-12C avoids gas-guzzler tax, U.S. deliveries commence in January

Filed under: MPG

List price is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when considering the purchase of a new supercar. Never mind the premium you’re likely to pay a speculator to avoid long waiting lists, or astronomic insurance rates, for that matter. If you actually plan on driving your six-figure exotic, you’re going to be [...]

We’ll see a “lot more diesels” in U.S. by 2014

Filed under: Diesel, USA

As the number of automakers selling diesel vehicles rise, the amount of motorists buying the oil-burning machines will increase, too, claims Jeff Breneman, executive director of the U.S. Coalition for Advanced Diesel Cars. That statement seems to be simple common sense, right? Well, not so much in recent times here in the [...]

GM will announce all-electric Spark city car for U.S. today

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Chevrolet, GM

Looks like there was a good reason General Motors dropped the “More car than electric” tagline for the Chevy Volt. That anti-EV phrase was always short-sighted, and the reason why could be on display later this morning in Detroit. Reports out now say that GM will announce a new U.S.-bound electric [...]

Pike Research says annual sales of plug-in vehicles in U.S. will hit 358,959 by 2017

Filed under: EV/Plug-in

Pike Research has put out an estimate saying that annual sales of plug-in vehicles in the United States will hit 358,959 by 2017. And they’re not all going to the usual suspects. Mostly, sure, but not all.
Since there is no national Level 2 (or faster) charging infrastructure the way there is a gasoline [...]

Could plug-in vehicles save the U.S. Postal Service?

Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, USA

With the United States Postal Service facing financial woes, Infrastructurist claims to have found a plugged-in solution that will keep the centuries-old, Constitution-formed government agency alive and kicking: four tips that, if successful, would make Benjamin Franklin* proud. Here’s an abbreviated look at tip number one:

The USPS currently operates [...]

U.S. to beat Brazil as world’s leading ethanol exporter

Filed under: Ethanol, South/Latin America, USA
Lagging U.S. sales of E85, lax trade restrictions and Brazil’s worst sugarcane harvest of the last decade will allow the United States to overtake the South American nation as the world’s leading ethanol exporter during the second half of 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced last week. Okay, [...]

U.S. oil imports drop sharply; so what does it mean?

Filed under: Ethanol, Green Culture

U.S. oil production peaked in 1970; U.S. oil consumption did not. As a logical result, the importation of oil from other countries has increased over the decades until it accounted for two thirds of the petroleum used in the United States in 2008. However, that rise has not been steady. Several [...]

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