Archive for the ‘Green’ Category

In case you've been trapped in a cubicle for the past few months, it's summer again, and that means gas prices are making their march back up toward their peak. While fears of $4 per gallon gas aren't prominent - yet - Hyundai is pre-empting the rise with a promise of $1.49 gas for a full year, or 12,000 miles, for buyers that take home a new Hyundai before August 31.

The savings from the program, called Gas Lock, could be substantial, at least from a percentage perspective - average fuel prices are about $2.70 right now, and many of the larger markets in the country are well over $3 already. Deliver gas at around half price is an attractive...

Amsterdam is a city of many and remarkably diverse joys and entertainments. But the Dutch are also an extremely practical people.

Enter: The Beer Bike, or bierfiets.

It's a way for 14 people, at least some of them presumably inebriated (and the video mentions "stoned" as well), to travel through the streets of the Dutch capital without getting behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.

Given that the Dutch now log more miles on their bikes than on their automobiles (being an almost entirely flat country helps), it was probably inevitable.

Now, two accidents involving Beer Bikes--one that caused an injury--have transportation councillor Hans...

The 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class has been on the drawing boards for a while--and now, the German automaker is running tests on prototypes spotted by the spy photographers over at Motor Authority.

The new ML-Class sport-ute is due to arrive in 2011 as a 2012 model. These first photos of test mules show what could be a slightly shorter body, on an unchanged wheelbase. The ML-Class is expected to remain a five-seater, while Mercedes continues to offer a seven-passenger GL-Class ute and continues to debate the future of its six-passenger R-Class crossover.

All three vehicles are now built in Alabama, and share most of their powertrains. For the...