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In a video blog on the company’s website dated Thursday, Lutz confirmed that the Detroit automaker would use clean diesel engines in passenger cars , sport utility vehicles and other light-duty trucks . … The automaker will show the same variant at the Detroit auto show in January on a Saturn, most likely the Aura sedan, the industry journal stressed. The diesel engine will power the Opel Vectra in Europe by next year, and the next-generation Aura in the United States if …

This initiative is part of the automaker’s plan to lessen CO2 emissions as outlined in the Nissan Green Program 2010 – its mid-term environmental strategy. Nissan will also be investing in a variety of technologies including hybrid cars …

Regardless of your choice of analogy, the auto industry is facing the kind of technology-based competition it hasn’t seen in years. Phoenix Motorcars, by contrast, is making an all-electric truck and car , as is another supplier, Miles Electric. … Lam said consumers are also getting more savvy about green claims from automakers . He said a hybrid with a big 6-liter engine, like the one Lexus is making, is “a joke, an oxymoron.” (Credit: CNET Networks) …

Toyota has been embroiled in its recall crisis since October, when it announced a recall of 5.3 million cars and trucks to fix floor mats that can trap pedals and cause unintended acceleration. ….. and what did the execs do, they chose not to develop it. the EV1 was great. and with 10 years ahead of the others, the american auto industry would have mopped the floor with the Japanese auto makers . but what did they do? they walked away. they scraped it. …

There’s a great playground in Berkeley, near the Rose Garden, that has a two-story tall twisted and banked concrete slide down the side of a hill, of the sort that cities would never build again in our modern liability-freaked danger-averse era. Blissfully unaware of this, the local kids use torn-up cardboard boxes to reduce their

OICA, the venerable “Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles,” better known as the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, finally got around to finishing their 2009 World Ranking of Manufacturers by motor vehicle production. This list has very little surprises for the TTAC B&B who pinned our World’s Top Ten Automakers 2009 to the wall. Yet,

Chevrolet Volt Pricing Announced; Recall Alert: Nissan Cube; GM Introduces Mobile App for Vehicles; Mitsubishi Lancer Awarded Top Safety Pick by IIHS; Honda to Introduce Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle by 2012 … Latest Auto News: Breaking car news about the cars and trucks you drive; Green Driving: Hybrids, Electrics, Hydrogen Cars , and other news about efforts to green-up the industry that brought you smog; Car Culture: Oddities, trivia and pop culture car news …

Five States for Nissan Leaf Release Announced; Chevrolet Caprice Police Car to Start Chasing You in April 2011; Ford Reports Second-Quarter Profit; GM Introduces Mobile App for Vehicles; Honda to Introduce Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle by 2012 … Latest Auto News: Breaking car news about the cars and trucks you drive; Green Driving: Hybrids, Electrics, Hydrogen Cars , and other news about efforts to green-up the industry that brought you smog; Car Culture: Oddities, …

OK, so none of these cars are actually “competition” for the Chevrolet Volt, but think of them as a benchmark “basket” and they can help define the market the Volt will soon be thrown into. Pre-recession, the Prius was headed into the sales stratosphere, goaded on by apocalyptic gas price fluctuations. BMW’s Dreier was on

GM pulls out of Canada’s former auto capital. The General Motors transmission plant on Kildare Road in Windsor, Ont., was the last of the automaker’s plants still operating in the city. It ceases production Wednesday. (CBC). Wednesday marks the end of the line for General … “The truth is this: Electrifying our cars and trucks is the only way to fundamentally deal with the dangers posed by oil dependence, from the Gulf tragedy to threats in the Middle East,” he said. …