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Provided you have the winning ticket, this is what it will cost for this 40-plus-mpg Honda Insight hybrid.
Honda is generously donating a brand new 2010 Insight Hybrid to the Liberty Hill Foundation for a raffle to support its environmental efforts, which are focused on the Los Angeles area. Tickets cost all of $100, and the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Automotive'
Buy a 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid for $100
March 28th, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 2 Comments
Tags: Automotive
The Coefficient of FastSkinz
January 15th, 2009 by Max Gladwell · 13 Comments
A new vehicle wrap technology reduces drag and increases efficiency by up to 25%. Can it really be this simple?
It’s not often we get to break stories, but this is one we’ve patiently followed for the better part of the last six months.
SkinzWraps is a vehicle wrap company based in Dallas, Texas. It’s primary business [...]
Tags: Automotive · Entrepreneurs
Stephen Colbert Weighs in on the Automotive Bailout
December 9th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 2 Comments
The Colbert Report on the bailout of U.S. automakers: Season of Giving.
“Instead of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we’re giving to Ford, Chrysler, and GM.”
We’ve written plenty about GM’s strategic mistakes and the pending bailout of Detroit’s Big 3 automakers, which started back in early September. We recognized that GM was heeding the wake-up call back [...]
Tags: Automotive · Humor
GM YouTube Bailout Video: Save Us or Else
November 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
General Motors produces a bailout video that threatens to take down the economy. The YouTube public isn’t buying it.
GM’s plea for a $25 billion taxpayer bailout for the American auto industry has gone from Congress to YouTube. If the comments are any indication, the public does not support it. It has 216K views and 1,920 [...]
Tags: Automotive
The Ultimate Green Hack: An Electric MINI Cooper
September 27th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
Hybrid Technologies hacks production cars like the MINI Cooper and re-brands them as electrified green machines.
Driving an all-electric vehicle takes some getting used to. First, you have to remember to plug it in at night. Next, you have to get over shifting and the very sensation of shifting, because there’s just one forward gear: drive. [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy · Automotive · Online Video
Electric Mini Cooper: A Week of Emissions-Free Driving
September 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 9 Comments
We have the Hybrid Technologies all-electric LiV Flash for a week of testing prior to the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica.
Hybrid Technologies needed a place to park its all-electric Mini Cooper, otherwise known as the LiV Flash, for a week between the Emmys and Alt Car Expo. And we’re happy to oblige. Here are [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy · Automotive
Stephen Colbert Interviews GM’s Bob Lutz on the Chevy Volt and Global Warming
September 17th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 6 Comments
The Colbert Report interviews GM Vice Chairman and global warming skeptic Bob Lutz on the new 2011 Chevy Volt.
Bob Lutz is GM’s Vice Chairman and one of the world’s more high-profile global warming skeptics. Stephen Colbert invites him on the show to talk about the recently unveiled 2011 Chevy Volt. Lutz mentions that one of [...]
Tags: Automotive · Global Warming · Humor · Online Video
GM Unveils the Production Version of the 2011 Chevy Volt
September 16th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 6 Comments
General Motors takes the wraps off the production version of the 2011 Chevy Volt. Can this save the company?
DETROIT – General Motors launched its next 100 years today by unveiling the much-anticipated production version of the Chevrolet Volt – a vehicle that delivers up to 40 miles of gasoline – and emissions-free electric driving, with [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy · Automotive
Detroit’s Big Three Automakers Go for the Bailout
September 9th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 10 Comments
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are seeking $50 billion in low-interest federal loans. But don’t call it a bailout.
First there was the subprime crisis and Bear Sterns. The U.S. government bailed out the investment bank to the tune of $29 billion because it was too big to fail. Investors lost a ton of dough, but [...]
Tags: Automotive · Policy
Consumer Reports Shows That Six Out of 12 Hybrids Save Money
September 2nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 1 Comment
Toyota Prius and hybrid versions of Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Tahoe, Ford Escape, Saturn Vue, and Toyota Camry pay back price premium after one year.
YONKERS, NY — With gas prices soaring, Consumer Reports’ latest analysis of owner costs shows that drivers can save anywhere from $500 to $4,250 over a five year ownership period by choosing [...]
Tags: Automotive
