Biofuels market value to double to $185.3 billion in ten years

Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol
Will there be enough feedstock to support a massive biofuel boom? It sure seems possible, ’cause Pike Research predicts that the value of the biofuels industry could double in the next ten years, depending on the emergence of advanced feedstocks.
Motivated, mainly, by concerns about energy independence and climate change, at least 38 [...]

This year’s LA Auto Show Design Challenge is going Hollywood

Filed under: LA Auto Show, Etc., Design/Style

Hollywood and the automobile have had a long and storied relationship together. Iconic vehicles routinely appear on the silver screen, and end up earning a place in the hearts of millions of fans. When you see a highland green Mustang, you think McQueen and San Franciscio. A Delorean will [...]

Report: Mitsubishi expects to profit on sales of plug-in vehicles in 2 years

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

How much money can you make selling a $20,000 electric car? Mitsubishi Motors thinks you can make plenty and, according to Japan’s Nikkei business daily, expects its plug-in vehicles to turn a profit in two years. In the U.S., the company’s i EV will cost $27,990 (or just $20,490 after [...]

Giugiaro’s original Lamborghini design unearthed and realized 50 years later

Filed under: Concept Cars, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Lamborghini, Design/Style

If you had asked us just a few days ago if Giorgetto Giugiaro was behind the design of any production Lamborghini, we probably would have answered, Sure, he must have…right? Wrong. Because none of Lamborghini’s road cars ever bore the famed designer’s lines.
Bertone styled a few, but [...]

Mercedes-Benz unveils crazy Unimog concept to celebrate 60 years

Filed under: Concept Cars, Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz Unimog Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery

The legendary Unimog is a rugged, go-anywhere vehicle designed to handle just about any job you can throw at one. Daimler-Benz took over the production of Unimog trucks back in 1951, and now 60 years later, Mercedes-Benz looks to honor the history [...]

Porsche celebrates 10 years in China with special edition 911 Turbo S

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, China, Porsche, Design/Style, Luxury

2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S China Edition – Click above to enlarge image

To celebrate its tenth anniversary in the ever-hungry, ever-growing Chinese market, Porsche is unleashing a special edition version of its 911 Turbo S. The car comes with the Turbo S’ 530-horsepower, twin-turbo flat-six, mated to Porsche’s [...]

2011 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid could pay you back in four years

Filed under: Hybrid, USA

HybridCars.com got their hands on a new 2011 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid and put it through its paces. Except for improved voice recognition of the truck’s OnStar telematics system, everything remains largely unchanged from last year’s model, which we reviewed here.
The Silverado Hybrid packs a whopping 6.0 Liter V8 mated to GM’s Two-Mode [...]

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 [...]

42 years of waiting, and working, for an electric car pays off

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Chevrolet, AutoblogGreen Exclusive

Right to left, Ron Gremban, Felix Kramer, Andy Frank

For a long time, the plug-in vehicle scene was small enough that a few handshakes and introductions were all that was needed to meet most of the people involved. This will be forever gone in 2011, when tens of thousands [...]

Carlos Ghosn: Electric vehicle profitability may come “within next 3 years”

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, Renault

When the discussion turns to battery-powered cars, Renault-Nissan chief executive officer, Carlos Ghosn, is one outspoken, optimistic individual. In fact, it’d safe to say that Ghosn’s bullish outlook for the electric vehicle (EV) segment is unmatched by any of his automotive peers. From claims of EVs accounting for ten percent of [...]

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