REPORTS ARE CIRCULATING in the Japanese media that Honda will take the wraps off an all-new battery-electric concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show in October.

According to the Nikkei business daily, Honda plans to introduce an all-electric passenger vehicle to the American market in 2015, and is expected to unveil a concept version of the [...]

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Break out the patchouli folks, Ferrari’s developing a hybrid.

With Ferrari’s president Luca di Montezemolo pledging the brand will cut its fleet emissions by 40 percent by 2012, the race to design, refine and manufacture a workable performance-oriented hybrid system is well-and-truly underway.

But don’t think the Prancing Horse is going the way of the Prius. No, [...]

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Toyota is reportedly in the midst of developing a USD$5000 small car to tackle emerging markets like India and Brazil.

Toyota’s small-car subsidiary Daihatsu will share its extensive knowledge of building cheap, cheerful and amazingly-tiny vehicles with the Japanese auto-making powerhouse, and production is expected to begin by 2015 in Bangalore, India.

The new brand, and the [...]

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