This morning, Paris’ Autolib’ electric car sharing network launched with 250 EVs on the road to increase eco friendly transportation around the French city. The Autolib program is a follow-up to the massively successful bike sharing program, Vélib’, similar to the BIXI program which caught on at the same [...]

  The LA Auto Show was held from November 18 – 27 this year, and it featured a handful of new eco-friendly vehicles, including hybrids, clean diesels, alternative fuel vehicles, and electric cars. While most of the vehicles featured were more ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’, the electric cars that were on [...]

Here’s a cool interactive map that makes it easy to visualize the penetration of eco friendly vehicles in the American auto market. Originally seen over at NPR, a lot of the qualitative data is stuff we already know: San Francisco leads the country with the most hybrid and electric car [...]

CODA Automative, one of the up-and-coming ‘independent‘ electric car manufacturers, will now be selling its cars alongside the GE Wattstation Wall Mount, one of the most ‘residential-friendly’ electric car charging ports. Who’s CODA? CODA Automative is a privately owned American company that “designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion [...]

When a 747 is in flight, it burns 1 gallon of fuel every second, which is why it’s important to develop airplane technology which would make them lighter, and therefore more fuel efficient. To solve this problem, GE has developed a new airplane motor, the GEnx, which will make for [...]

There are at least a couple of extremely compelling reasons as to why 2012 will be the year of the electric car. Saving money on increasingly high fuel costs is one very practical reason this is likely. Becoming more environmentally friendly is another very important consideration as we transition more [...]

While the Nissan LEAF and Chevrolet Volt are starting to hit the roads in North America, BMW is preparing to release two luxury eco friendly vehicles, the all-electric i3 SUV and the hybrid-electric i8 Sports Car. To find out more about the awesome new hybrid and electric cars on BMW’s [...]

Hybrid vehicles have been available to U.S. consumers now for over a decade. Since their introduction into the American automotive market, car manufacturers, environmental groups, governmental organizations and consumers have been debating the value of hybrid vehicles. Proponents of hybrids make arguments concerning environmental impact, fuel efficiency and energy independence. [...]

Eco-friendly and green cars are more than just a new trend; they will eventually replace the gasoline combustion engine entirely for many reasons. Fossil fuels are a limited resource, so new technology must be developed to slowly make the switch from old fuels such as petroleum and gasoline to new [...]

E-bikes are so popular these days, even major automative manufacturers are throwing their hats in the ring. The first of which is Ford, who this week revealed their E-Bike concept, pictured below in high quality (click to enlarge). According to The Ford Story, The E-Bike has a trapezoidal frame profile, [...]