While you cannot "Brick" a Nissan Leaf, it can become dead if you're away for a couple weeks, fortunately it's easy to revivify a dead Leaf, and it's easy to avoid the problem in the first place.
The Mineta Transportation Institute has issued a report on ecodriving education which finds that although not everyone will modify their behavior after learning bout the difference their driving style can make, even small behavioral shifts due to cost-effective data dissemination could be the most effective way to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
This Earth Day is ideal for electric cars and Ford with two of its Focus Electric and Men’s Health Magazine are about to finish a nationwide road trip with a couple of top professional race car drivers.
Multiple engineering events start today in Detroit and center on high efficiency engines, electric motors, and culminate with the SAE 2012 World Congress and Exhibition at Cobo Center in Detroit.
Since 2009, the Chevrolet global brand has outpaced the auto industry. Now for the first three months of 2012, Chevy achieved a 6.5 percent increase over the first quarter of 2011.
Companies around the nation are adopting fleet changes that improve their environmental footprints, many of them using Earth Day as a time to tout their own green cred.
The technology in cars is advancing so rapidly the old knobs and buttons on the dash and console are going the way of the Dodo bird – anyone who hasn’t bought a new car in a decade may actually need to read the manual just to get around the block.
