Archive for the ‘Diesel’ Category

Neil Young’s LincVolt to Make Rock Star Comeback

One of my favorite vehicles to follow for the past couple of years has been the LincVolt – Neil Young’s special project to take one of the world’s heaviest production cars (a 1958 Lincoln Continental) and turn it into a green cruiser running on biodiesel and electric motors.  It’s cool, it’s beautiful, and it friggin [...]

BMW’s New Paint Job On the Vision ED

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 [...]

Gates Automotive – Hybrid Tow Trucks in New York

Note: this is from GreenBigTruck, another of my websites.  Another version of this, focused on the capabilities of the Kenworth T270, will be published on FutureCars soon. One of the great things about doing thatinterview on NPR last week was the amount of feedback and the number of new people I met (mostly virtually, of [...]