Your weekly Green Overdrive episode is here, and we’ve brought you the ins and outs of the concept Honda Fit electric vehicle, an EV version of Honda’s cute and boxy Fit line. It’s the company’s first pure EV since the late 90′s. Read More »
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Much about Honda’s plans for an electric version of its compact Fit car remain shrouded in secrecy. But one thing is set: Honda will work with Google, among other partners, to evolve that concept into a vehicle that’s ready for production. Read More »
Back in the 90′s Honda developed an electric car called the EV-Plus that never made it into wide scale production. At LA Auto Show, Honda returned to that history and unveiled the world debut of an electric version of its Fit car called the Fit EV. Read More »
The city that’s so defined by its car culture, traffic and massive freeways, is hosting a major auto show this week: the LA Auto Show. Here’s 10 green cars to watch for outta the show this week. Read More »
More than 100 world premieres are planned for the Paris Auto Show, which kicks of next weekend, including a strong contingent of hybrid and electric vehicles. Here’s 10 to watch. Read More »
When Microsoft or Adobe find a bug in their software, they can issue a new version that can be downloaded in a matter of minutes. But as our cars get loaded up with more and more smarts, what will it take to iron out the kinks? Read More »
Honda Motor Co. plans to start selling a pair of plug-in vehicles in 2012, including a “mid-size to larger” plug-in hybrid and an all-electric model, the automaker’s president Tkanobu Ito said on Tuesday. Read More »
Tesla’s latest filing with financial regulators fills in some of the gaps about its deal with Toyota and plans for the NUMMI facility. Tesla expects to pay about $42 million for the plant. The partnership with Toyota is a very limited one. Read More »
A flood of apps that make use of the iPhone’s built-in GPS and accelerometer to serve car drivers on the go has already started to gush forth: Honda’s Compare Your Drive to Insight (which monitors speed, braking, acceleration and fuel economy) to iGasUp and
From hybrid heavyweights Toyota and Honda, to Nissan, with its visions of electric world domination, to smaller brands like Suzuki, Subaru and Mitsubishi, Japan’s automakers are gearing up for a global hybrid and electric blitz. Some of the front runners in that move… Read More »
Car-sharing networks like Zipcar — the largest in the U.S. — often earn environmental points for helping to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. And as we’ve written on GigaOM Pro (subscription only) and on Earth2Tech, these services — hooked up to communications… Read More »
In some industries, bankruptcies, shutdowns and pullouts have become so commonplace that we’ve had to start deathwatch lists just to keep track (see: coal, ethanol). Not so in the electric scooter sector, which has only begun to rev up at the starting line. But this… Read More »
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