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The new 2Five is a quiet, efficient neighborhood vehicle that can double as a golf cart, boasting a high-efficiency DC engine, hydraulic disc brakes, regenerative braking and more. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

The Scarab, an unmanned robotic electric vehicle concept by designer Carl Archambeault, was developed to protect police officers in high-speed chases and traffic violations by chasing down speeding cars. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Recently signed Maryland legislation makes buying and commuting with an electric vehicle more attractive than ever. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

In the quest to create the perfect green vehicle, designers often come up against a basic problem: this vehicle has basically already been invented (and it’s called the bicycle). Rather than reinventing the wheel, so to speak, why not soup up the basic bike and surmount the essential issues that keep it from being a [...]

Electric vehicle manufacturer Think is one of a plethora of companies competing for dollars in what could be a very lucrative American retail electric car market. Think, however, has already been down the road in terms of electric car development in Europe, which perhaps helps explain, at least in part, how they were able to [...]

Students at Purdue have come up with a novel solution for African nations in need of cheap, locally-produced transportation: a multipurpose vehicle made primarily from that oh-so-familiar renewable resource, wood. This “wood truck” Basic Utility Vehicle, or BUV–the latest in a number of interesting green designs being targeted specifically to rural Africa–was designed specifically to [...]

Solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids — while these and other green technologies play an important role in our effort to reduce the impact we humans have on the earth, just as important are the vehicles we drive every day. With gas prices fluctuating and harmful emissions burning through the ozone layer, more and more [...]

If Nissan and GM hope to drive decent sales of their upcoming Leaf and Volt electric cars, it looks as if they are going to need to do a lot more to educate consumers on how effective these types of vehicles can truly be on the open road. That is one of several takeaways from [...]

After a solid showing at this year’s Geneva Auto Show in March, European automaker Opel, a part of GM, has passed another milestone with the first pre-production Model Year 2012 Opel Ampera electric vehicle (EV) was successfully developed at GM’s Pre-Production Operations assembly line. As the term ‘pre-production’ implies, these vehicles are not ready to [...]

Students from Hacienda Heights, California have built a vehicle with a hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) using a four-stroke engine from Honda. The three-wheeled vehicle runs entirely on hydrogen and uses absolutely no gasoline. After a successful test drive, the car is now ready for a public showing. “The bugs have been fixed, but there [...]