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Frankfurt Motor Show goes green. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Indeed this year there will be plenty of exciting performance and luxury cars making their debut including the Bugatti Bordeaux, the Rolls-Royce Ghost and the Bentley Mulsanne. However, the event will also have a distinctly green theme. Meanwhile, the experimental Hybrid 4 version of the Peugeot RCZ has CO2 emissions of just 95g/km.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). 9/11/07 FRANKFURT, Germany -- General Motors will begin testing the revolutionary electric drive system in the Chevrolet Volt concept car on the road in vehicles next spring, company Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If no one wants your car (because people think it sucks), then no one will buy it, regardless of how good the fuel economy may or may not be. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. GM is making strides increasing their cars fuel economy.

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