The new Mercedes S500 plugin hybrid will, according to Mercedes, get 72.5 miles per gallon.  The hybrid car has the ability to travel 18 miles on electric only, but it’s not an extended range electric vehicle – like the Chevy Volt or the Fisker Karma. The hybrid has a 6 cylinder gasoline engine for it’s [...]

Electric cars don’t use gas to go.  This results in a zero emission vehicle that saves us harmful pollution, but these cars still need to plugin to the grid to recharge and go.  And since almost half of our electricity comes from burning coal, and we’ll be using more electricity to power our homes and [...]

Everybody these days wants to be green.  There are massive amounts of money and incentives for any automaker to build a vehicles that get better mileage.  Hybrids have the spotlight in that category as they get outstanding mileage by supplementing gas power with stored electric. Nissan is no exception, and they offer a hybrid Nissan [...]

I try to cover a wide variety of topics here even though my main focus is on the Chevy Volt.  I’ve covered new forms of generating E85, the new Chrysler EVs, the toyota prius, and a few other topics.  These all had one thing in common though, they focus on us becoming a more fuel [...]

The Playmaker’s Standard, LLC today released an illustrated analysis of the media strategies employed by Detroit-based General Motors Corporation. The independent study reveals how GM is using communications and media to build competitive advantage in the coveted hybrid electric vehicle market and generate interest in its much-anticipated Chevy Volt. Based on The Playmaker’s Table(TM), a [...]

The senate passed a bill that will likely total over $600 billion in spending measures on tuesday. Of that $25 billion is for backed loans to the auto industry.  The house of representatives will likely vote on the bill today. The inclusion of the low-interest loan guarantees is a victory for struggling U.S. manufacturers General [...]

The senate passed a bill that will likely total over $600 billion in spending measures on tuesday.  Of that $25 billion is for backed loans to the auto industry.  The inclusion of the low-interest loan guarantees is a victory for struggling U.S. manufacturers General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co, and Chrysler LLC, which is controlled [...]

There are rumors going around detroit that GM and the EPA are having words about how the Volt is rated.  The Volt is an entirely new vehicle that the EPA hasn’t seen before.  Does the EPA consider the Volt a hybrid vehicle?  Or and electric vehicle? What the EPA decides can have an important impact [...]

Scott Settlemeyer gives us a run down on all the ways that GM is helping to create a line up of fuel efficient to fuel free vehicles.  He explains the gas engine for the pickup/suvs can shut down 4 cylinders when they’re not needed.  He also talks about the Chevy Tahoe hybrid which gets better [...]