News Opinion (Page 93)

Tesla Motors has had a reputation of rich media headlights and Elon Musk is not known to mince his words. The latest Detroit stint and hints at its product shows a company eager to keep the momentum going.

Audi has a “me too” moment with its Metropolis Cyberstore in London. The Audi City showroom will feature stunning visuals of future electric and hybrid cars.

Last week, scientists reported the melting of the Greenland ice sheet has already "shattered the seasonal record" set in 2010, four weeks before the end of summer. According to authorities, the phenomenon is the result of rising Arctic temperatures, with serious consequences for the environment, coastal communities and arctic species.

Will the Spark EV change your mind about GM? Will it be the electric car that launches it back positively forward? And if the Volt is an “electric car”, what is the Spark EV?

Chancing across a BBC news report on rebels bombing an oil pipeline in Columbia set us to reflecting on the various costs and benefits oil has created in our lives.

Lotus is quietly and strategically placing itself as the alternative energy carmaker today. While the Evora 414E certainly shows a lot of potential, the company hasn’t committed to building it on yet but rumors of Infiniti Emerg-E and Alpine Renault abound.

Are Republicans just desperate to find fault with the White House's new fuel economy standards, or do they actually have a point?

Could the Osborne Effect (preannounced future products dry up sales of current products) delay adoption of electric cars?

Long distance trips with electric cars are possible, even for short driving range electric cars, by carefully planning a route with available charging stations, and by choosing a car with a powerful charging system.

Four years ago it seemed a simple goal – one million electric vehicles on US roads by 2015, as the price of gas neared $5 a gallon. Today with only 65,500 EVs rubbing curb-feelers with 123,600 CNG vehicles and gas steady at about $3.50 a gallon, the focus seems misplaced.

All ranks and types of consumers are beginning to get auto loans again from banks and auto finance companies even without the best credit rating. The simple fact is people are much less likely to walk away from their vehicle than their domicile and the lenders have figured this out.

California lawmakers are proposing yet another tax on California residents. This one would tax you for driving by adding a Big Brother device to your car.

Lotus has announced that they will not be attending the Paris Auto Salon this year, after making a huge splash two years ago with not one, but six concepts. Now, with top-level shakeups, the company is re-thinking its global strategy.

Occasionally as auto writers, we have the opportunity to drive both traditional internal combustion engine and hybrid electric variants of the same model, allowing a comparison of the virtues and vices of either mode as it applies to driver’s needs.

This is the first of a multi-part series on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard and how it affects American automotive, for good or ill. This part looks at the storied history of CAFE, which was born as a tribute to unintended consequences and continued meddling.

Phrases marketing like "extended range electric vehicle" serve a marketing purpose while creating confusion about the meaning of phrases like "electric car", "plug-in hybrid," and can lead to poor decisions by misinformed car purchasers.

These two Japanese inventions changed automotive reliability forever. One of them is the sole reason nearly every gasoline vehicle made has a service life longer than 150,000 miles with proper maintenance and the other explains why your vehicle's starter doesn't need rebuilding regularly.

Automobile and truck sales have surged this year, with 7.3 million retailed during the first six months of 2012, while the housing industry shows signs of life, but still is not in full-blown recovery.

Most electric vehicles that are releasing in the next couple of years are not really meant for a wide audience, but instead exist only to make California regulators happy.

New research reveals that four million motorists have suffered from ‘dashboard denial’ in the last year, ignoring a warning light for five days or more.

Three days of car show began in St. Ignace, Michigan with a kick-off cruise event followed by parade the second day. The videos will do most of the reporting.

While carmakers struggle to turn a profit at any cost, many fail to see what gets people out to buy cars. Ford reminds us it that automobiles are more than moving vehicles, they are accessibility platforms.

Our cars are getting more and more robotic and have been doing so since they first appeared.

The price dynamics of the weekly chart of General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) stock do not lie regarding the recent trend bias. Question is: Will the lows hold?

While a bipartisan committee endeavors to drive to a compromise on a comprehensive transportation bill balanced between the positions of Democrats and Republicans, states across the land are locked in a race to fund the repair and maintenance of state highways, bridges and roads.

Pay attention to these local car shows, especially the 2012 Lions Car Show in Center Line, Michigan, because they will provide you with a great view of automotive enthusiasts and their rides at their very best; and we have videos to prove it.

Many of the 118,000 salaried retirees are bitterly stating they will never buy another GM vehicle; and anyone who discounts the effects their numbers can have on sales should reconsider.

The big news this morning is a dramatic drop in fuel prices by the time Halloween rolls around – and that's not entirely good news.

Upon reading the latest report in the WSJ on natural gas engines, Hugo Tour, inventor of the opposed piston, split-cycle Tour Engine, had a few words to say about dual fuels and the advantage of his engine technology approach.

With the flurry of pros and cons of the electric car articles written, we tend to lose the bigger scope of why these cars are showing up on our streets.