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The Green Car Journal has announced its nominees for Green Car of the Year, and it will announce the winner at the Los Angeles Auto Show next month. The nominees are the Ford Focus Electric, Honda Civic Natural Gas, Mitsubishi i, Toyota Prius V an...

The judge said GM had the right to block Saab's sale

A US judge has thrown out Spyker's $3 billion lawsuit against General Motors that alleged that GM attempted to bankrupt Saab by blocking its sale to Chinese companies. The judge ruled that GM had the right to block the sale because it would ha...

The US Army, Air Force and Navy have taken delivery of 16 GM fuel cell vehicles for evaluation purposes. Each branch is evaluating them individually for their real world use and possible future purchase.  The three branches all have bases...

A study commissioned by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Decisions in the US has found that teenage drivers in the US tend to learn bad driving practices from parents.  The survey of 1,700 teen drivers found that ...

It will share its 18% share in the auto company

The US Treasury Department has begun its sale of its 18% of General Motors stock that it purchased when it bailed out the automotive giant in 2009. It began with 60.8% ownership of GM but has slowly been reducing its share in the company over the ...

The US, EU and Japan are working on an agreement that policy makers hope will mean an increase in electric cars. The three groups have two goals: to accelerate the acceptance, safety and environmental standards for electric cars and to converge th...

For a company that seems dead on its feet, Saab certainly seems valuable. North Street Capital, a private investment firm located in the US, paid $10 million to buy roughly 10% of Saab's shares on October 21, 2011, to immediately give the comp...

BMW has already revealed that it will be bringing the X1 to the US later this year, but it did not release much information. Now BMW has come back and is revealing significantly more about the US version of the compact SUV.  BMW had ...

Usain Bolt has teamed up with Nissan to create a special, one-off Nissan GT-R "Bolt" that will be auctioned for Bolt's charity. The car is painted metallic gold in recognition of Bolt's gold medal Olympic performance, and the int...

Only two of the special cars will ever be made

Nissan has delivered its gold GT-R to Usain Bolt as the finale to the promotional effort that Bolt started for Nissan in April 2012. Nissan auctioned a one-of-a-kind Bolt Gold GT-R for the Usain Bolt Foundation charity late last year. Bolt has rec...