AutoblogGreen for 06.30.10 #saleschart { border: 0px solid #333; border-collapse: collapse; } #saleschart td { padding: 7px; border-bottom: 0px solid #ccc; vertical-align: top; margin: 0; line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 100%;} #saleschart th.bottomrow { border-right: 1px solid #333; } #saleschart tr.features1 { border-top: 1px solid #333; } #saleschart td.bottomrow2 { border-right: 1px solid #333;} #saleschart th { font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 4px; background: #f3f3f3; border-top: 1px solid #333; } Nissan to offer tens of thousands of Leaf test drives starting this fall Want one? You'll probably get your chance. Tesla lets 13.3M shares fly at $17, raises $226M on IPO Not a bad day. Automotive X-Prize: TTW stands tall, but falls behind the competition Take a bike, add in some SUV style and this is what you get. Other news: By not offering incentives, Australia could be best indicator of electric vehicles' real popularity Paris plans to launch world's largest electric car sharing program Panasonic introduces CO2-reducing, low-cost alkali metal catalyst for diesels AutoblogGreen for 06.30.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More after the jump...
General Motors and SAIC to jointly develop small engine and dual clutch transmission Filed under: China, Technology, GM General Motors has reached an agreement with one of its primary Chinese partners, Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp. (SAIC), on the joint development of powertrains for small vehicles. GM and SAIC will develop and produce a family of four-cylinder engines ranging from 1.0- to 1.5-liters with direct injection and turbocharging. The GTDI engines should cut fuel consumption by around 20 percent compared to similarly-sized engines with equivalent output. The engine will be used in GM and SAIC vehicles in China and around the world, and to go along with the new engine, the partners will also develop a small dual-clutch transmission that should provide a 10 percent boost in efficiency over current six-speed torque converter automatics. Work on the engine and transmission will occur at GM's powertrain engineering center in Pontiac, MI and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center in Shanghai. GM has yet to announced when the new powertrains will debut in production, but mid-2011 is a safe bet. [Source: General Motors]Continue reading General Motors and SAIC to jointly develop small engine and dual clutch transmission General Motors and SAIC to jointly develop small engine and dual clutch transmission originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments More after the jump...
We obsessively covered Pebble Beach Week Filed under: Concept Cars, Motorsports, Classics, Performance, Auctions, Specialty, Design/Style, Luxury, Racing As always, we made the annual trek to Monterey, California for Pebble Beach Week with laptops in tow and digital SLR cameras in hand to capture everything worthy of your time. As you can see by our assemblage of posts below, 2010 was another spectacular year for new and old. From a bevy of new car introductions to a slew of special events and even a couple of high-brow auctions, we'd imagine there's something to see for just about every fan of internal combustion. Knock yourself out... and please excuse us while we (finally) put down the coffee and take a well-deserved break. Production Cars 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Morgan EvaGT Bentley Continental GTC 80-11 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Jaguar XKR175 Infiniti G25 Lotus Evora Cip GT4 McLaren MP4-12C Infiniti IPL G Coupe Lotus Exos Type 125 Perana Z-One Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Special Events Rolex Motorsports Reunion Jaguar's 75th Birthday 100 Years of The Indy 500 Alfa Romeo's 100th Birthday Concours d'LeMons Bugatti GP Cars The Quail Motorsports Gathering Ferrari F40 Birthday Collection Concorso Italiano Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance Jaguar XK-SS Gathering Honoring Dan Gurney Caroll Shelby Tribute Pebble Beach Concourse Concours Best in Show Auctions Gooding & Company RM RM for Ford We obsessively covered Pebble Beach Week originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments More after the jump...