CRISIS, AS THEY SAY, is the perfect catalyst for change. GM offshoot Hummer has long been seen as a dinosaur in an increasingly eco-conscious automotive world, however the recently announced agreement to sell the brand to Chinese industrial manufacturing company Sichuan Tengzhong could be just the shot in the arm the marque needs.

Specifically, the deal [...]

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Toyota Prius, Honda FCX Clarity, BMW Hydrogen 7. If there’s something wrong with today’s alternative fuel vehicles, it’s that they are all missing a crucial amount of glamour. You won’t find any teenage boys rushing to put posters of the Prius or the FCX up on their bedroom walls and even if you did, [...]

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Holden chairman and MD Mark Reuss has indicated that he’d like to see Chevrolet’s upcoming Volt plug-in hybrid come to Australia in the near future, possibly wearing a roaring-lion badge.

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Mercedes Benz is planning to eliminate all petrol and diesel-powered models within its model line up by 2015, replacing them all with a new range of alternative fuel cars.

The overall goal of Mercedes’s plan is to lower the costs involved in road transport, to reduce harmful emissions and to lessen our dependence on the rapidly [...]

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While automakers, oil companies and scientists squabble over what will become the fuel of the future, several alternatives have popped up as stopgap solutions to help ease the demand for oil. Of these, ethanol and biodiesel have emerged as the most popular, with widespread use of both spreading throughout Europe, the USA and much Latin [...]

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Official information on Ford’s new for 2008 Falcon is here. Designated the FG, it ushers in a range of vastly improved engines and sharp clean styling that maybe not quite the wholesale change some were hoping for, but is attractive non-the-less.

Ford enthusiasts may lament the dropping of the Futura and Fairmont nameplates which are no-longer [...]

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GM’s North American President, Troy Clark in a speech at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show has indicated that GM are expecting to have half of its U.S. vehicles running on ethanol by 2012. Sounds like a big call…!

GM will be achieving this feat with the help of their new partner and ethanol expert Coskata Inc. [...]

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Toyota Motor Corporation have announced the successful completion of a 560 kilometre journey by an improved version of their FCHV Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle – all on less than one tank of Hydrogen. It just goes to show that while they appear obsessed with petrol-electric hybrids Toyota have plans afoot to make the current [...]

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We’ve been keeping an eye on the Euro spec Focus for a while now. Initially it was believed to be in for a big make-over and the Focus artists impression we showed you at the time got tongues wagging – a super sexy Focus looked likely. Last weeks Frankfurt Motor Show unveiling brought the speculation [...]

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We’ve seen the Japanese automakers move from manufacturing cheap and cheerful cars to now being regarded as arguably the worlds finest automobile manufacturers. They are now home of the worlds richest car manufacturer (Toyota) and we are used to seeing hybrids and alternative fuel concepts from these manufacturers at the world’s various motor shows.

It’s with [...]

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Toyota has just announced that in conjunction with its luxury brand Lexus it has sold more than 1 million petrol-electric hybrids. The one we all know and love (we don’t but you might…) is the Prius which first saw the light of day in 1997 when it was launched in Japan.

The Prius has gone on [...]

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It’s been a week full of alternative fuel news. Porsche have announced that they will be making a petrol-electric hybrid option available with their Cayenne and Panamera models in 2009. BMW have their Hydrogen 7 cars on loan in Europe and the US and Saab, Volvo and Lotus are giving Bioethanol a try.

You could be [...]

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