Chrysler Electric Car Envi Ready Within Five Years

Chrysler has announced it’s planning to launch all-electric vehicles within five years. The new line, called the Envi, was created last September. The vehicles are slated to operate on battery power alone for about 40 miles.
Chrysler is also working on a new generation of hybrid vehicles with lithium-ion batteries that are lighter and store more […]

Toyota Prius To Include Solar Powered Air Conditioning?

The Toyota Prius rules the hybrid automotive segment. In fact, it sells three times as many cars as any other manufacturers’ hybrid model.
But Toyota isn’t resting on its “green” laurels. As reported recently in the Japanese daily newspaper, The Nikkei, Toyota will advance its “green” platform by offering solar-powered air conditioning in its 2010 models.
Toyota […]

Ferrari Traditional Red Will Soon Also Be “Green”

Even one of the icons of the automotive industry, the Italian manufacturer Ferrari, has plans to join the hybrid world.
Known for its trademark luxury red sports cars, Ferrari will become “green,” with an elaborate system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its vehicles by 2012.
Three years later, Ferrari has plans to introduce a hybrid car […]

Sales Brisk, But Unites States’ Hybrid Market Share Still Small

Hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles are, of course, all the rage as gas prices climb and drivers’ environmental concerns increase.
Green is mean and lean. And dealers around the country, despite plummeting overall sales, report backlogged demand for hybrids.
As such, premiums tacked onto hybrid vehicle sticker prices were once not considered a possibility. Now, hybrid […]