What’s driving green-car innovation?
Though dozens of electric vehicles, hybrids and diesels are on display at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show, conventional gas-powered vehicles still accounted for almost 94 percent of the 14.5 million...
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Green cars: New energy at Chicago Auto Show
It won't take eye-popping horsepower to get noticed at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show. This year's big McCormick Place breakout comes with a different set of specs. Fuel-economy estimates should...
GM parks the SUVs, squeezes into compacts
On a day of reckoning for the American way of building and driving cars and trucks, General Motors announced a bold attempt Tuesday to wean itself from a dependency on...
Grease sizzles as fuel source
In the era of alternative fuels, grease is turning into a pretty slick investment. Restaurants increasingly are being paid for their used cooking oil, icky stuff that historically they've had...
Grease sizzles as fuel source
In the era of alternative fuels, grease is turning into a pretty slick investment. Restaurants increasingly are being paid for their used cooking oil, icky stuff that historically they've had...
New energy policy: Find cheap gas
They were waiting on long lines for gasoline. They were paying near-record prices. And they were thrilled. Why not be happy to pump gas at $3.93 a gallon when almost...
Looking to stir the winds of change
Automakers, it would seem, should use the same formula to determine how aerodynamic their cars are. And they do, but their results vary because of differences in their wind tunnels...
Sales bump to dodge victor
There aren't too many sports where the winner's equipment gets almost equal billing, but look at the statistics accompanying results for the Daytona 500 and you'll see not just the...
Trucks pump up volume on luxury
Of all the 40-plus brands on display at the Chicago Auto Show, which opens Friday, no vehicle makes a bigger, shinier statement than Navistar International Corp.'s LoneStar. Weighing in at...
Detroit Auto Show blog: Hyundai turns things up a notch
Hyundai is positioning its Genesis luxury sedan against such prestigious cars as the BMW 5-Series and Mercedes E-Class, touting a long list of premium features including adaptive headlights, radar-based cruise...