Archive for the ‘Future Cars’ Category

Whether you’re concerned about national security or have green motivations as well, you might be eagerly awaiting electric cars and plug-ins in hopes of escaping your reliance on OPEC and foreign oil, but as of late there’s been plenty of coverage suggesting that future battery supply could be limited by control of lithium stores.

“The Saudi Arabia of lithium,” Bolivia, has about 50 percent of the world’s lithium deposits in its salt flats and now plans to produce its own batteries by 2016, reports the BBC, provided the demand is there.

What’s more, Bolivia’s mining minister, Luis Echazu, told the BBC that the South American country has...

The replacement for the Chevrolet Aveo could be the new compact car GM CEO Fritz Henderson acknowledged in future plans as GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning.

That new car may be called the Viva, according to a report from Motor Trend.

GM's Henderson said in this morning's press conference following the GM Chapter 11 filing, that the company would restart a shuttered plant to resume production for a new compact vehicle. The plant and the vehicle haven't been named, but Motor Trend's sources say it's the Aveo replacement shown in a cropped spy shot here and in full view on their Web site.

The Viva would be derived from the same...