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Smaller turbocharged engines cannot match the power and efficiency of a modern, larger, normally aspirated engine, but they are getting very close.

Electric vehicles are like penguins and albatross, awkward on their feet, they excel in their own domains. EV excel in city traffic and that’s how we should see them.

How many times have you wished you could attend the Barrett-Jackson annual auto auction in Scottsdale AZ with enough money to thoroughly indulge your wildest automotive desires?

This week has been chock full of electric vehicle news that will have an impact on tomorrow’s EV landscape. Find out what happen and what this means for you.

Electric vehicle sales predictions are most often based on nothing concrete. Think twice before listening to unrealistic proclamations.

Fisker bought a plant in Delaware and promised to build vehicles there, but so far has not done much with the facility. The state has been picking up the tab on the electric bill for the empty electric car plant, say news reports.

In 2012 gas reached prices in the US it never has before and given the drop in national demand and the boost in domestic production, gas may not exceed last years prices at any time during the coming year.

A new SAE standard gives recommendations meant to improve emergency worker safety while working accidents involving electric or hybrid vehicles, with training on unique safety requirements, as well as labels identifying the drive train type.

A new tax on electric cars is going into effect in Washington State, to collect road use fees normally collected at the gasoline pumps electric car owners never visit.

The very fate of Christmas as we know it could be in the balance as the conspiracy around the conflicting reports from Lexus and Ford deepens.

The events of 9/11 put the right to privacy smack dab in the path of Homeland Security and the next invasion of personal rights comes with a black box in your car – with the potential to tattle on you thousands of miles down the road.

No matter how you look at it, the Tesla Model S is a bargain, or at the very least will offer performance a gasoline car does for roughly the same price. How so? Follow my thinking.

The world’s largest automotive market will mark the beginning of the year 4710 on lichun or February 12, 2013, and the effects of limited capitalism and a growing auto culture are causing more change than the communist revolution of Mao Tse Tung did in 1949.

With the release of General Motor's plans for its half ton pickup trucks, the 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 and the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, it's clear that the new models will eschew a hybrid powertrain. Why?

Though still a pitiable percentage of the total automotive market, the marginalization of electric cars may be nearing its end.

The first steam powered carriages were replacing horses as early as 1788 and though eventually superseded by gasoline powered combustion engines, the highways of tomorrow may see the return of steam as a renewable power source thanks to the innovative HydroICE engine.

While writing an admonition of mixing oil and water yesterday, the US Coast Guard was searching for two missing workers after an explosion on an oil rig, 17 miles south of Grand Isle LA, owned by Black Elk Energy, a firm founded by a former BP executive.

BP was just handed $4.5 billion in fines and penalties, along with the indictment of a vice-president and two on-site supervisors for manslaughter, all as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that dumped 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The state has issued fines against three San Franciso-area startups for not gaining licenses for services they don't offer. Proving that even the nation's most tehnologically-savvy sector has outdated bureaucrats.

Other than party politics, few things spawn more passionate and varied perspectives than anything related to greenhouse gasses, climatic change, CAFE requirements and the US appetite for foreign oil.

Electric car zealots beware, this article will rile you up. But if you like electric cars and are actually interested in honest presentations, then you will be happy.

Yesterday as the latest in the series of 23 James Bond films hit US Shores, the Kuwaiti firm Investment Dar was reportedly seeking representation to sell its 64 percent controlling share in Aston Martin.

We’ve all seen the Mini Coopers with Red Bull cans and collateral wraps tooling along the veins of the city, but now JMR Graphics and ComTrans of Phoenix are conspiring to sell ad space on fleet vehicles, continuing the advertising juggernaut’s intrusion into every sensory input to our consciousness.

The manufacturers spin their sales figures for headlines. The media anoints its darlings and then reports their staggering sales success. Here are some factual observations and some opinion for flavor.

In an announcement we now hear regularly, Volvo claims its new technology allows for faster recharging of EVs, but sounds a little late to the party, and a little comic.

No matter where you look in the press these days, you will not be able to miss the continuous stream of negative news from the electric cars lackluster sales number. So are sales numbers low or did “expert” predict too high again?

These two brands are still selling in the U.S. but really should think about just quitting the game.

There are encouraging signs in the US economy and auto sales are one such indicator, but if it comes down to a simple equation of supply and demand, the long-haul industry is no part of a rosier view.

Each month, TorqueNews looks at the sales race between the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt and considering how many comments and emails we get questioning this comparison - I wanted to take a few minutes and explain why I chose to look at these two innovative new models each month on a head to head basis.

The incredibly capable off-roader, driven by most to dinner, is now on sale and is better than ever.