car2go North America LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corp., celebrated its first full year of business in San Diego, home of North America’s first all-electric carsharing network. Since the launch of car2go in San Diego in November 2011, more than 12,500 people have registered as members of car2go, and more than 200,000 […]
The 2013 Volkswagen Eco Up!, which runs on natural gas, biomethane, or gasoline, was launched in Europe but it’s not coming to the US. The alt-fuel car comes with a 1.0L three-cylinder engine modified to run on natural gas, and is one of six natural-gas powered vehicles in Europe. Edmunds thinks a case could be […]
Light-duty new vehicle sales totaled more than 1.14 million units in the US in November, up 15% from the 994,721 reported during the same period a year ago. That translated into a seasonally adjusted annualized selling rate of 15.54 million units, the highest since January 2008. It’s the strongest monthly sales volume in nearly five […]
Twenty-five years after the first US-made Honda vehicle was exported to overseas markets, associates at the company’s Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio, marked production of the one millionth Honda automobile to be exported from the US. The silver 2013 Honda Accord EX-L Sedan will be shipped to South Korea. Within two years, Honda will […]
Highway Loss Data Institute predicts that the increasing number of older drivers on American roads will not be causing more collisions. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s research arm just released this finding in a new study. The forecast that collision claims will remain essentially flat through 2030 has more to do with the fact that […]