The last time we talking about the iMiev, we were announcing the target sale price of $38,000. Now however, Mitsubishi is telling us that the will be sold for just $27,500. This is quite a price cut, but not without its caveats.
Firstly, Mitsubishi will only be releasing this car in Japan at first (though it [...]

[Read more →]

It may be a little uncharacteristic, but I wanted to give a shout out to my friends over at BIG INK, who have converted their entire fleet over to Priuses. I’m obviously a big believer in individual action, but it’s great to see when that action trickles up to the company level. I think they’ve [...]

[Read more →]

You may not know it, but long before Darin Cosgrove was the co-founder of our little site here, he was chatting about fuel economy related to his car of choice, the Pontiac Firefly (a clone of the Geo Metro/Suzuki Swift). He started MetroMPG long before fuel economy was cool, and since then he’s noticed the [...]

[Read more →]

It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that buys gas that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles has exploded recently. Not only is gas expensive, but the psychological effects of paying big time at the pump has driven people toward hybrids and small cars, making many models scarce and putting the Civic up on top.
Recently, GFF took [...]

[Read more →]

Sad, but true. After the buzz surrounding the announcement of a Honda Fit hybrid trim, there were rumors that it might make it to the United States along with the $18,500 base-price hybrid and the CR-Z hybrid coupe, but according to ABG, it’s not to be.
The good news, however, is that this decision isn’t due [...]

[Read more →]

No, there hasn’t been a government decree, and no, this not the proclamation of some automaker. Recently, IBM interviewed auto executives anonymously about the future of the industry, and came to the conclusion that, among other things, all or almost all new cars would be hybrids by the year 2020.
If it’s not apparent to you [...]

[Read more →]

Recently, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers announced an initative called EcoDriving, aimed at educating consumers on how to drive more efficiently to reduce fuel usage. When you head on over to the site, the first thing you will notice is Governor Schwarzenegger’s welcoming voice, as he explains to you a bit of what EcoDriving is [...]

[Read more →]

Two days ago, the New York Times had a really interesting article about something currently going on in one of the most progressive cities in the country: San Francisco. We all know that finding a parking spot in the city can really sucks. What’s worse is that driving around the same block over and over [...]

[Read more →]

It seems our favorite media darling, the Chevy Volt, will have  bit of competition when it comes time for it’s eventual release in 2010. Though we’re not sure if it will make it to the US (like the Smart Car EV), we do know that Mitsubishi’s iMiev will make it to market a year earlier [...]

[Read more →]

 
I thought there was no better image to break the news of a new movie from the creators of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” than one of GM’s iconic EV1 dressed up as a crime scene. Besides being a great film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” gave GM and other automakers a bad rap for [...]

[Read more →]