Diesel-powered vehicles typically get 30-35% more miles per gallon than comparable vehicles powered by gasoline. Read More »

Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) may not reach the mass market for a decade or more, but a limited number will be available for sale or lease in 2005-06 to demonstration fleets in areas with a readily accessible hydrogen supply. Read More »

The Internal Revenue Service announced that purchasers of General Motors Corp. qualified vehicles may continue to claim the Alternative Motor Vehicle Credit. Read More »

The Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged the certification of vehicles that qualify for the hybrid tax credit enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Read More »

As with other hybrids, a plug-in hybrid vehicle has the ability to run on either electricity or an internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrids have a larger battery than the batteries of conventional hybrids that can be recharged by plugging into an appropriate outlet. Read More »

In an electric drive vehicle, the torque is supplied to the wheels by an electric motor that is powered either solely by a battery, or an internal combustion engine using hydrogen, gasoline or diesel, or, by a fuel cell. Read More »

Edmunds.com’s latest hybrid study shows that despite higher sales prices, purchasing some – though not all – of today's hybrids can make good financial sense. The company compared the sales prices and annual gas expenses of hybrid vehicles and their non-hybrid counterparts. Read More »

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5's Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative will co-sponsor "Tools and Incentives for Green-Diesel Technology: Lower Emissions, Higher Profits," a two-day conference on financial programs that fund diesel emission reduction and fuel-efficient technologies for heavy-duty trucks and locomotives. Read More »

With gasoline prices spiraling upwards, the cost of car ownership can put a major dent in the budget. Perhaps, your vehicle sits in the garage unused for days, sometimes weeks, without moving. Here it is deteriorating and depreciating while making monthly insurance payments and paying annual registration fees. Read More »

Mercedes-Benz has long history of building diesel-powered cars. The 1936 Mercedes-Benz 260D was the world's first production diesel car. In the 1980s, a large number of Mercedes-Benz sold here were diesel powered. It stopped selling diesels in 1999, mostly because of ever more stringent emission requirements. Read More »