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By Jeff Cobb BMW’s plug-in hybrid i8 looks like it will feature innovative doors suitable for the avant-garde car, according to spy photos borrowed from our sister publication, AutoGuide. The main difference looks like hinge placement, which allows the doors to open upwards and twist which should ensure they are fully out of the way [...]

By Jeff Cobb Extended-range electric Fisker Karma. Reports swirling around Fisker Automotive are ranging the gamut from the company is possibly on its way to insolvency to its future is bright and concerns about whether it can renegotiate its U.S. Department of Energy loan balance are unfounded. On the negative end of the spectrum, an [...]

By Larry E. Hall The 2012 Kia Optima Hybrid – the brand’s first hybrid introduced last year – borrows the drivetrain found in the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. It combines a 2.4-liter engine with a six-speed automatic transmission, a 30-kw electric motor and lightweight lithium polymer batteries to provide a total 206 horsepower. As a [...]

By Jeff Cobb Is General Motors’ latest Chevy Volt commercial on the Fox network a proverbial case of speaking truth to power? Is it a case of the deeply criticized paying to air its perspective on a network which has been long on negative rhetoric against the Volt? You decide, but as the new commercial [...]

Last Thursday, Tesla Motors unveiled the Model X electric crossover at its design center in Los Angeles, California. Of course, the debut of the Model X “created massive media attention,” according to Tesla. In fact, the electric automaker claims Model X was the “third most searched term on Google”, and that on the night of [...]