Believe it or not, the most fuel-efficient mid-sized car on America’s roadways will soon be American.

The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid has been certified at 41 mpg in the city and 36 mpg on the highway, besting hybrid versions of both the Toyota Camry and the Honda Civic. Much of the credit goes to the new Fusion’s NiMH battery, ..

There are many different types of batteries on the market, but in the world of hybrid and electric cars, most automakers have set their sights on the Lithium-ion variety. Li-ions are easily rechargeable, they hold charges well, and they produce a nice amount of power for their size–all important criteria for making electric ..

Were you aware that GM started development on the minivan a decade before Chrysler introduced that concept to the marketplace in the 1980s? Or that GM had invested considerable money into research and development of hybrid vehicles in the 1970s? The company also stopped development of a rotary engine it was to sell to AMC for use ..

Daimler AG, parent of Mercedes-Benz, announced yesterday that it took a 49.9 percent stake in firm Li-Tec, a company that will produce lithium-ion battery cells for upcoming Mercedes electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Holding the other 50.1 percent is German firm Evonik. Both Daimler and Evonik are looking for a third partner ..

Call it rank speculation–but TheCarConnection.com’s sister site AllAboutPrius.com is getting in on the act with the groundbreaking Toyota Prius set for a Detroit show debut.

AllAboutPrius thinks the new hybrid will be getting some companions, but not necessarily in the Toyota showroom. For sure, Lexus is plotting a new ..

Intel’s former chairman Andrew Grove is exerting considerable pressure on the company to explore the world of car battery production. Grove feels that the promising industry will bloom into a huge profit center, and as such is pushing Intel hard in this direction.

Currently, the most promising (and capable) suppliers for ..

Toyota is putting its new Mississippi manufacturing plant on indefinite hold, as it preps to introduce the 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid that was to be built there.

The Wall Street Journal says the decision–which had been rumored for months–will help the automaker get its North American production in line with current demand. ..

Pretend you’re an engineer at Ford. Wouldn’t you be sick and tired of hearing from Washington and the coastal media that you build junk? Don’t you wish you could plop these ignorant windbags behind the wheel of something you’ve recently worked on and ask, “So is this the uncompetitive, technologically backwards, fuel-sucking Ford ..

Over at the Mercedes display in January in Detroit’s Cobo Hall, the luxury brand will be displaying its new BlueZero concept cars, according to WorldCarFans. One concept relies exclusively on electricity for propulsion, and the other two add gasoline and hydrogen to the electric motivation, respectively.

The BlueZero E-Cell is ..

We’d had it pegged as a 2010, but we just learned that Honda’s new four-door Insight Hybrid hatchback sedan, which is reportedly poised to be the most affordable hybrid when it goes on sale next spring, will be tagged an ‘09 and debut at Detroit’s North American International Auto Show. The vehicle shown in January at Detroit’s ..

Mulally, Wagoner, and Nardelli are doing quite the about-face since arriving in Washington via private jets a couple weeks ago to ask for billions in bailout funding.

Heeding the advice of fed-up Congressmen (most notably New York Democrat Gary Ackerman), both GM’s Rick Wagoner and Ford’s Alan Mulally will be arriving in ..

The 2009 Detroit Auto Show is shaping up to be as happy as a visit to a chemo ward, but at least one automaker is bucking the trend of abandoning Cobo Hall for later shows: Fisker. The electric/hybrid carmaker–er, startup, since it hasn’t built car one–says the 2009 Detroit show will showcase the production version of its Karma ..

Gas prices have recently fallen as rapidly as GM, Ford, and Chrysler’s dwindling cash reserves: well below $2 per gallon in many areas of the country. From highs more than double that number just months ago, these petrol price vacillations are enough to make a person dizzy. Or at least bipolar.

How is it possible that one ..

So Fisker’s stealthy, all-electric Karma will be blessed with GM Powertrain’s muscular 2.0-liter direct-injection, turbocharged four-cylinder belting out 260 horsepower when it goes on sale before the end of ‘09. Say what!? Definitely the mechanical surprise of the day–does it really take 260 horsepower to run the generator that ..

Wow, even cigar-smoking, bodybuilding, one-time Conan the Barbarian Schwarzenegger the Governator has been forced to face the facts of fuel efficiency. The juiced-up juggernaut posed next to a girlie little Saturn VUE Hybrid at the L.A. Auto Show, perhaps a concession to his left-coast state that sells more Toyota Priuses and Civic ..

The plan, the brainchild of the former Silicon Valley software executive Shai Agassi, is an attempt to overcome the major hurdles to electric cars.

Tesla Motors says it cannot move forward on plans to bring out a second-generation electric car without federal funds.