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What are the promises and pitfalls of carbon fiber?
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Lightweight, Greenlings For the last century or so, cars and trucks have predominantly been formed from one material in particular: steel....
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How important is the appearance of a green car?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Natural Gas, Greenlings 2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery There has been quite a spate of green car designs in...
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How can we "refuel" electric vehicles today and tomorrow?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Better Place, Greenlings Renault Zero Emission line-up - Click for high-res image gallery Among the many claimed advantages of electric vehicles are...
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Should I switch to straight veggie oil? What is holding SVO back?
Filed under: Biodiesel, Vegetable Oil, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Greenlings We like to answer reader questions with our Greenlings series whenever possible, and thought that Timothy H. had a good topic....
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Will we ever replace the standard rear- and side-view mirror?
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Greenlings Recently, we received the following question from a reader: Rear view mirrors inevitably create blind spots. They add untold fuel costs by resisting...
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What is CAFE?
Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, MPG, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, USA, Greenlings It was big news when the Obama Administration updated CAFE requirements in May to a...
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Why can't Americans have good, small diesels?
Filed under: Diesel, Legislation and Policy, Greenlings 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI - Click above for high-res image gallery The question is often asked, "Why is it that drivers in Europe can get all of...
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How does weight affect a vehicle's efficiency?
Filed under: Green Culture, MPG, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Lightweight, Greenlings Over the last few decades, the average weight of a vehicle sold in the U.S. climbed steadily after we got over the oil...
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How do I plug my electric vehicle in at home?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Greenlings As electric vehicles begin to find their way to peoples driveways and garages, knowing what's involved with charging up the batteries becomes more necessary. Over...
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Why does mileage drop in winter?
Filed under: MPG, Greenlings This week's Greenlings topic came to us from another reader tip. Don asked why his fuel economy suffers so much in winter weather. In his own experience, mileage drops...
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What's the difference between kW and kWh?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hydrogen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Greenlings Understanding electric and plug-in vehicles requires a slightly different knowledge set than what mechanics and...
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Greenlings: PHEV? DSG? VMT? A guide to common green vehicle acronyms
Filed under: Etc., Greenlings Deciphering the new vocabulary of the green car movement can sometimes be a real head scratcher. To alleviate as much confusion as possible, we would like to present our...
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Greenlings: What's the point of concept cars?
Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Greenlings Honda P-NUT - click above for high-res image gallery Remember the Honda P-NUT? The unusual vehicle (pictured above, full details here) was...
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Greenlings: Can racing really be green?
Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Racing, Greenlings Humans are competitive creatures who have raced against each other in one form or another for millennia. The practice that likely evolved from...
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Greenlings: What's a light-duty truck, and why should we care?
Filed under: MPG, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, USA, Greenlings 2009 Chrysler PT Cruiser - Click above for high-res image gallery When is a truck not a truck? Well, that depends on your...
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Greenlings: How do hybrids and electric vehicles blend regenerative and...
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Greenlings Following last week's announcement by Toyota that it would recall several hundred thousand units of the 2010 Prius and Lexus HS250h to update the brake...
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Greenlings: What realistic electric vehicle recharging options are there for...
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Greenlings One of the challenges to making electric vehicles (EVs) "work" in the real world is figuring out how, where and when to...
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Greenlings: Which is greener, having two wheels or four?
Filed under: Green Culture, MPG, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Legislation and Policy, On Two Wheels, Green Daily, Greenlings Vespa S 50 - Click above for high-res image gallery So, you want to go green....
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Greenlings: Who will be the main players in the electric vehicle space?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Chevrolet, GM, Mitsubishi, Tesla Motors, Aptera, Th!nk (Think), USA, Fisker, BYD, Greenlings, Coda Automotive 2012 Renault Fluence Z.E. Electric vehicles (EVs) are about to...
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Greenlings: Why do automatic transmissions now get better fuel efficiency...
Filed under: MPG, Greenlings Not so long ago, it was common for automatic transmissions to be referred to as slushboxes, since that's how they often behaved. Rather than use a mechanical clutch,...
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