Wanna see what Honda has in store for Toyota next year? From CarScoop: Speaking with journalists at the European launch of the new Jazz (Fit) in Frankfurt, Germany, Honda UK”™s environmental manager John Kingston said that the new standalone hybrid model will play a very important role in the company”™s future. “”It is a very [...]
Today’s brand-new Honda Civic is an amazing car to buy if you are looking for a non-hybrid, well-made, high-MPG automobile. I owned a 1994 Honda Civic that lasted 8 years and 150,000 miles before it started having any problems at all, and looking back I never should have gotten rid of it. But I was [...]
Dear EarthTalk: How does congestion toll pricing, used in some cities around the world, cut down on vehicle traffic and promote green-friendly public transit? Despite increasing green awareness and steadily rising gasoline prices, Americans and other denizens of the developed world, not to mention millions of new Chinese and Indian drivers hitting the road every [...]
As I have mentioned somewhere along the line before, we only own one car and it is a 2008 Subaru Forester. Because we bought it in California before moving to New Mexico, it is the PZEV version of the car, which stands for “Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle”. This version of the engine and exhaust system [...]
In a world with steeply declining oil supplies, the transportation wave of the future (that is, if we can get them built before the oil runs out) will be electric cars that are charged by solar panels. This bio-fuel and hydrogen nonsense aside, there are a few innovative companies going the all-electric route, and I [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Should we expect to see “plug-in” hybrid cars anytime soon? I’ve been hearing they are on the horizon but I wonder if that means in one year or 10. Gasoline-electric hybrids now, like Toyota’s popular Prius, don’t need to plug in – you just fill their tanks with gasoline and the battery keeps [...]
So maybe we should stop complaining? “Honked off by American pump prices? Cheer up. You could be commuting in Oslo, Norway, where gasoline costs $9.85 a gallon and filling up a Mini Cooper would set you back $130. That’s the priciest petrol on a list of world gas prices released Wednesday by Associates for International [...]
