Eco-Cars

Lincoln is showcasing its latest luxury vehicles and advanced technologies this weekend at the annual Dwell on Design convention, the West Coast's largest design event, and also plans to take to the street...

AM does not spend much time on supercars, let alone hypercars. However the recent announcement that Jaguar is to build the C-X75 concept car is more significant than any other announcement of an expensive ...

By Ric Romero There are many TV commercials touting 40 miles per gallon and even more. The ads sure are attention getters, but Consumer Reports auto editor Rik Paul says the promises aren't necessarily all...

By Ian Andrew While the Chevy Volt is picking up steam as an all-electric, zero-emissions eco friendly car, Chevy has released the designs for a new concept car called Era, which takes the concept of a gre...

After three years of competition, collaboration and electrification, the EcoCAR Challenge is over, and the student-engineers at Virginia Tech have come out on top with an extended-range EV powered by E85 fuel. ...

  This is the Honda CR-Z Mugen hybrid, and it isn’t a production car… yet. Instead this prototype (valued at over £150k!) is designed to showcase just how far Mugen can push the CR-Z envelope. (more&hel...

By Eric Evarts Chevrolet has been getting some great mileage out of its ads about the Cruze Eco’s fuel economy. “Cruze Eco offers 42 mpg on the highway by sacrificing nothing,” says Chevr...

Students from Penn State won fourth place and brought home a number of other awards at the EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge competition, held in Milford, Mich., and Washington, D.C. Sponsored by General Motors (GM) a...

By Rochelle LaMont & Kenric Nilsson As gas prices are reaching a record high, people are looking to automobile manufactures to produce more fuel efficient cars. Hyundai is answering these cries with a trio ...

    NC State is one of 16 colleges competing in the EcoCar Challenge. For three years the teams have been running tests, adding elements and switching components on their vehicles with the goal of min...