Max Gladwell

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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: [...]

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