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Two reasons diesel cars cost less to operate

A University of Michigan comparison of diesel cars to their gasoline variants shows significant cost savings across three to five years, despite the slightly higher cost of diesel fuel and vehicles.

2013 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel. Image © 2013 by AarononAutos.

2014 Cadillac ELR packs unusual technology in an EV

When it is launched later this year the new Cadillac ELR will take away Tesla's exclusive claim to cool electric luxury cars.

Little did you know that Monte Carlo means supercar awesome

The 2014 Monte Carlo Automobil Rascasse takes what we Americans consider one of the lamest sports car names and turns it into one of the most awesome supercars you can imagine.

Drayson Racing electrifies new world land speed record

The Drayson B12 69/EV Le Mans prototype has blasted through the previous 175 mph World Electric Land Speed Record with such a showing that it may be another forty years before it will be beaten again.

3 reasons why an electric vehicle can win this race

The 91st running of the Pikes Peak Race to the Clouds could be the first year and EV takes the outright win.

2014 Mercedes CLA Class combines pleasure and efficiency perfectly

2014 Mercedes CLA sets new benchmarks in efficiency and driving pleasure and it’s called the new CLA 180 BlueEfficiency Edition.

2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA Class four-door coupe

UK's Teva Motors to design electric fleet trucks with Tesla born insight

Teva Motors emerged during 2012 in the United Kingdom with its prime directive developing a 7.5 tonne Diesel Extended Range Electric Truck for the route delivery market and, in picking their development team, has named an engineer involved in the creation of the Tesla Roadster.

Michael Schumacher selling two of the rarest Ferraris in the world

The Formula One legend is selling his personal Ferrari FXX and Enzo, priced at $2.6 million and $1.47 million respectively.

Toyota's Voice Recognition to get big boost from Kirobo in space

Toyota’s Voice Recognition system is probably one of the best at interpretive voice recognition, handling nuances of accent and variations of basic commands fairly well, but to make it even better a robot named Kirobo will travel to the International Space Station to learn to talk with astronauts.

The Kirobo robot. Image courtesy of Toyota.

Feast your eyes on the all-new 2014 Mazda3

Following an early online debut via a Czech website that ignored he embargo, Mazda has announced all of the juicy details on the 2014 Mazda3 along with a full complement of images of their sleek new C segment hatchback.

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