Hybrid cars are all the rage and many people just don’t truly understand how hybrid cars work. One of the most common questions we get here at GoOnTheRoad.com is how the hybrid cars compare for mileage. While this may seem to be an easy answer, it’s not – there are many factors that affect a […]
August 19th, 2008 | Justin Stewart | 0 comments | ContinuedGreen
Environmentalists Push Plug In Hybrids
Hybrids are proving popular choices for people who want to save money on gas and reduce their car’s carbon foot print. Many people say that hybrid cars do not make a significant impact on the environment. Critics claim that hybrids are nothing more than a feel good option dressed up in green paint.
If environmental activists […]
Web Service Lets You Lock in Gas Prices
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The high price of gasoline has some U.S. drivers looking to the future.
There’s a new service out on the inter-web, called myGallons.com and it allows you to buy gas at todays price, and pump it in the future. So if you bought 100 gallons today at 4.60 per gallon, and […]
Tesla plans mass-market electric sedan
Tesla Motors plans to produce its mass-market $60,000 electric sedan in the San Francisco Bay Area by the end of 2010.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tesla CEO Ze’ev Drori announced the decision at a press conference at Tesla’s Silicon Valley facility today.
“We are not a mere niche player with a car to the rich and […]
VW starts testing electric cars, sees launch by 2010
BERLIN (Thomson Financial) — Volkswagen has started testing a new electricity-powered car engine and expects to launch the first cars fitted with it by 2010, CEO Martin Winterkorn said.
Speaking during a presentation of the first Golf model fitted with such an engine, Winterkorn said the system, called “TwinDrive,” has an electric engine that can also […]
June 27th, 2008 | On The Road | 0 comments | Continued
In Norway, they’re building your first electric car
OSLO, NORWAY — Ingvil Ladehaug is battery challenged.
Her laptop is running out of juice. Her cellphone is down to its last electrons. But the director of communications for Norway’s Think — beginning production in September of perhaps the best electric car in the world — feels good about our chances of getting home.
“We’re going to […]
June 26th, 2008 | On The Road | 0 comments | Continued