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Aug
03

EcoModders Average 33 MPG, 25% over EPA

With nearly 3000 vehicles in the EcoModder garage, most of them logging data for over a year, we decided it was time to crunch some numbers to see how...
Jun
30

How Not To Ride A Bike

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Jun
29

“110 MPG” HP2G Mustang Kicked Out of Progressive Automotive X-Prize Competition

Though they would have us believe otherwise, in truth the team has been kicked out for failing to completely fill out the registration. The HP2G team...
Jun
28

Chicken Feathers for Hydrogen Storage and Wind Power?

What would you say about using “cooked” chicken feathers to store hydrogen very efficiently?  How about using chicken feathers as carbon...
May
06

Tata Gets 203,000 Nano Bookings Before the First Sale

Last month Tata decided that they would begin to sell their Nano by selling pre-orders for the car and then randomly choosing 100,000 of the pre-order...
Apr
26

Petter Solberg stopped on SS20 and retires from Argentina

Photo: ©willyweyens-rallyworld Petter Solberg has reportedly stopped on SS20 with fuel pressure problems in his 2005-spec Citroen Xsara WRC...
Apr
24

Opel Insignia ecoFLEX has 0.26 Cd and Gets 45.2 MPG

Seems like the European automakers are going all out on fuel economy these days. Opel has created an ecoFLEX version of their popular Insignia sedan...
Apr
24
Apr
23

Honda Working on Variable Compression Ratio Engines

It’s been years since Honda brought us VTEC, and frankly, some of us have been wondering when the company was going to give the internal combust...
Apr
21

Toyota Drops Prius Base Price to $21,000 to Compete with Honda Insight

Be sure to check out our 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid photo gallery at the bottom of the post...
Apr
18

4 Green Car Blogs You Need to Follow

Everyday dozens of quality news stories are published about green car stuff on the blogosphere. At EcoModder we try to talk about the best and most in...
Apr
16

Dodge Circuit EV Will be Chrysler’s First

Check out the gallery at the bottom of this post for more pictures...
Apr
11

New York Auto Show: Ford Highlights Fuel Economy with Interactive Display

More than other automakers, Ford designed its floor space at the 2009 New York International Auto Show to highlight the company’s efforts to pro...
Apr
10

New York Auto Show: The SUV Strikes Back

Recently, auto news has been dominated by green car coverage. No one has been immune to this, nor has it been hard to ignore that currently automakers...
Apr
09

New York Auto Show: Fiat 500 Wins World Car Design of the Year Awards

This morning at the New York International Auto show, the Fiat 500 was awarded the prestigious World Car Design of the Year Award. The award was decid...
Apr
09

New York Auto Show: Honda FCX Clarity Wins World Green Car of the Year Awards

This morning at the New York International Auto show, the Honda FCX Clarity was awarded the prestigious World Car of the Year Award. The award was dec...
Apr
06

Honda UK Asks Customers to Eco-Test Drive the New Honda Insight

I know I can’t be the only one planning to show up at Honda and Toyota dealers near my home and put the two hybrids in a head to head match of f...
Mar
26

Tesla Model S: $50,000 Electric Car that Seats Seven

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Mar
09

New Honda Insight Outsells Toyota Prius

Recently, we talked about how the hybrid Honda Insight was beating sales expectations in Japan. As far as orders are concerned, that hasn’t chan...
Mar
03

New Rav4 Engines to be Ultra-Low Friction

Toyota has been stepping up the fuel efficiency game recently, and not just with flashy hybrid models like the new Toyota Prius. Some of their efforts...
Mar
02

February 2009 Postive For Automakers

Automobile sales jumped back to the positive charts as major manufacturers posted double digit growth for the first time in past eight months...
Mar
01

Car Prices Might Be Reduced

In a stride that could see the price tags of cars coming down, the government is understood to be in discussion with automakers to pass on the entire...
Feb
24

EcoModder is now on Twitter!

Hi all. I don’t know how many of you are Twittering these days, but EcoModder has finally decided to jump in the ring and see what it’s al...
Feb
24

New Honda Insight Already Beating Expectations

We’ve talked about the new Honda Insight Hybrid and Honda’s high hopes that this car will become a Prius-killer before, and the dream is s...
Feb
23

New Mercedes E-Class Has Industry’s Lowest Coefficient of Drag

You may have been impressed back in 1999 by the Honda Insight’s low .25 CD. You may again have been impressed by the new Toyota Prius’s ma...
Feb
19

The Chevy Volt will have Goodyear Fuel Max Tires

Tires are to driving like shoes are to walking. If it’s snowy outside, you want a shoe with better grip, if you’re running, you want somet...
Feb
09

Even With Cheap Gas, We Still Want Fuel Efficient Vehicles

Image: Oil prices over one year, NYT...
Jan
15

Toyota Promises Hydrogen Car by 2015

For the last couple of years, hydrogen cars have been the talk of the town. Unlike electrics, they’re so far in the future and so new that all t...
Jan
13

Detroit Auto Show News Roundup

The trouble with auto shows is that for all the exciting news we can’t all always be there to see everything. That’s definitely the case w...
Jan
09
Dec
28

2008 TNI Rumor Scorecard

Since we started this blog  in April, we’ve been able to break some news and share some rumors from time to time.  As we approach 2009, I thou...
Dec
17

Audi, Volkswagen Cut Prices

German car makers Audi and Volkswagen today cut the prices of their products by up to Rs 2.79 lakh and Rs 80,859 respectively in response to the gover...
Dec
11
Dec
08

Excise Duty Cut, Car Prices Go Down

Car prices could come down by up to Rs 45,000 and bus and truck prices by as much as Rs 2 lakh if manufacturers pass on the full benefit from the 4% c...
Dec
05

2008 JD Power Initial Quality Study

The 2008 India Initial Quality Study (IQS) sampled impressions, experiences and data from 6,000 new vehicle owners across 20 cities in India, and rank...
Dec
05

Fuel Prices Reduced

With the cost of a barrel of oil decling the Government has decided to cut fuel prices. Petrol will now be cheaper by Rs. 5 and Diesel will be cheaper...
Dec
03

Tony Stewart’s “Stewie Awards” On NASCAR Sirius Satellite Radio

Tony Stewart hold’s them every year on his radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio. They might not particularly be your normal award show. But it&...
Oct
18

Martinsville Qualifying Rained Out

Martinsville qualifying got rained out last Friday, so everyone at this point knows the drill after all that mess goes down. The starting grid goes in...
Oct
10

Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick Duke It Out! (+Photo!)

Obviously there is nothing else interesting in the NASCAR realm to report, because my NASCAR news alerts blew up my mailbox this week with the Kevin H...
Oct
10

Denny Hamlin Will Race Sprint Cup This Weekend

It seems like Denny Hamlin is trying not to end up a “Tony Stewart Statistic”. As in, he’s not going to risk injuring himself if he...
Oct
09

GM Tries To “Volt” NASCAR Fans

Photo from TechnoRide...
Oct
08

Stewart-Haas Will Be Sponsored By U.S. Army

NASCAR reports that there will be an announcement tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at Lowe’s Motor Speedway that the U.S. Army will be the primary...
Oct
08

Denny Hamlin Released From Hospital

Denny Hamlin was released from a hospital yesterday after this hard hit from this past weekend’s race at Talladega...

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