Archive for the 'Concept Green Cars' Category

Saab’s Fossil Free car

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Looks like GM and its subsidiary Saab are finally onto something. This car is the first of it kind as a hybrid soft-top. Making its world premiere at the Stockholm Motor Show last week, the ground-breaking Saab BioPower Hybrid Concept delivers zero fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced performance, and a range of energy-saving features by combining [...]

Cow Dung Power: Talk about a renewable resource

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Now this a new concept coming all the way from India. A little background on cow dung aka cow pies, its the manure gotten from the cow which is shaped as pie, three stripes (finger imprints lengthwise, note: not the same as adidas) on the top of them. These are then layed out to dry [...]

Hybrid BMW X3 SUV

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

BMW unveiled the X3 EfficientDynamics, a hybrid concept of BMW’s popular compact SUV. The hybrid model goes 0-60 mph in approximately 6.7 seconds and a top speed of 146 mph – both better than the stock X3 with a concurrent 20 percent reduction in fuel consumption. More soon… Source: www.greencar.com

Mazda RX8 Hydro Rotary Engine

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

The Mazda RX8 Hydro Rotary engine car is on display at the New York Auto Show. Once I find some engine and performance specifications I will post them here.

Stockholm Motor Show 2006

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

I tried to get some pictures of the Saab 9-3 E100 concept from the Stockholm Motor Show. So I decided to go onto the official site for the Stockholm Motor Show and the site really sucks, check it out for yourself. This show comes around once ever three years, its claims to be the biggest [...]

Saab 9-3: Fossil-fuel free Hybrid car

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Today the Stockholm Motor Show opened and Saab premiered its Biopowered Hybrid Concept. The Saab 9-3 convertible concept is the first of it kind, especially the fact that it runs on 100% Bioethanol, hence CO2 emissions are zero. The Stockholm Motor Show runs from 30 March – 9 April. For more information, check out Saab [...]

Toyota Prius Hydrogen Hybrid starts fleet test

Friday, March 17th, 2006

SYNOPSIS: ECD Ovonics’ hydrogen hybrid has been equipped with hydrogen storage tanks using the company’s proprietary solid metal hydride technology that gives the modified Toyota Prius a range of just under 200 miles. Source: EV World. The Future in Motion

Car or Box?

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Concept car designers need to move away from the boxy looking cars. I would love to drive a car that runs of an electric motor and does not pollute the environment as much, but I do not see myself in a box. Its time the designers started thinking outside of the box. For more pics [...]

Blue Car: The Pure Electric Car

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Bollore Group of France, which is mainly a French battery company has come up with an electric car named “Blue Car”. Designed by Philippe Guedon and is claimed to go 0 to 60 kmph (37 mph) in 6.3 seconds and has a range of 250 km (155 miles) on a single battery charge, with a [...]

Mitsubishi makes Bamboo Green Car

Monday, March 6th, 2006

This is something car companies should definitely research. Mitsubishi Motors has developed a car interior which uses materials such as bamboo fiber and plant based resin, polybutylene succinate (PBS). This definitely helps reduce CO2 emissions and are dependence on plastics. We do need fuel efficient vehicles but we also need a car that is made [...]

E100 Biopower Concept from Saab: The Green Car

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

At the Geneva motor show, GM is going to show off its Saab Aero X two seater coupe. It is fueled entirely by ethanol (E100), thereby offering net zero tank-to-wheel CO2 emissions. With carbon fiber bodywork, electronically-controlled suspension and all-wheel drive, the Saab Aero X is projected to accelerate from zero to 100 kph in [...]