I’m a little behind on this one, since it was shown off last month. BMW’s supercar, the Vision ED, is pretty cool. I don’t think many people are going to argue with that. It’s kick ass. Except for the paint. Actually, to be honest, my only real problem with the paint are the colors. Blue [...]
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Russian Billionaire Brings Russian Style to Hybrids
October 21st, 2010 
Aaron Turpen The Russians have always been well known for their sense of style, aesthetics, and beautiful color schemes. Or not. Here’s a new hybrid electric design from Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, called the Town Car. It’s also been nicknamed the People’s Hybrid. The photo below should show you the powerful beauty of this unique and unusual [...]
Jaguar C-X75 Concept Diesel-Electric Awesomeness
October 6th, 2010 Aaron Turpen from FutureCars.com In brief: Jaguar is rolling out a new look amongst all of its supercar sports lineup, including with the new C-X75 diesel-electric hybrid concept. Vehicle in the news Make/Model: C-X75 Manufacturer: Jaguar The word Jaguar has been introducing a new design for all of it’s X-series supercars (XF, XJ, and XK). The C-X75 (C = [...]
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Comments OffAutoNation to Dealers: Sell the Volt at MSRP Or Else…
August 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen The largest new car dealership chain in the U.S., AutoNation, has informed its dealerships that they are to sell the Chevy Volt at manufacturer’s retail ($41,000) or face immediate termination. AutoNation has 27 dealerships selling Chevrolets nationally. This comes after reports that a lot of dealerships appear to be planning to make up for huge [...]
Posted in Car Company, Hybrids Tags: AutoNation, Car dealership, chevrolet, ChevroletVolt, general motors Comments OffGM Creates Venture Funding From Thin Air, Invests in Bright Idea
August 11th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Government Motors has been busy lately, getting themselves in the news (for good or ill) as they pimp their new government-funded car that will save the world – the Volt. Meanwhile, with dealerships apparently planning to make up for two years of losses by jacking the price on one Volt sale, GM wants to keep [...]
Posted in Car Company, Hybrids Tags: Bright Automotive, Financial Services, general motors, Venture capital 1 Comment »Consumer Reports Does EV EMFs
August 4th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Image via Wikipedia Obviously, I have some fans over at Consumer Reports. At least on their cars blog. Why? Because after a story I did, analyzing the electromagnetic fields coming from electric cars, on Natural News was published, I reprinted it here. Now Consumer Reports has done their thing with it, testing various vehicles and [...]
