Efficiency: Ford’s kaizen-like focus paying off

Ford’s hybrid program is the next benchmark of success
Ford’s $26 million man comes through
Not long after replacing Bill Ford Jr. as the CEO of Ford, Alan Mulally gave the keynote speech to the automotive press at the LA Auto Show. There Mulally cover…

Zero-emission Taxis hit London

Hydrogen fuel-cell powered cabbies are motoring around the streets of London this week, courtesy of Intelligent Energy – the UK-based firm charged with filling London’s roads with a zero-emissions taxi fleet by 2012.  Unlike a dozen other “greenw…

Bamboo and Rattan Electric Car Wows in Milan

Filipino furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue presented an ultra-lightweight car design last week that takes the use of renewable materials to a whole new level.  Using bamboo and rattan, Cobonpue feels that the project – called “Pheonix” – pe…

Highway Fatalities Lowest Ever Recorded

Despite Americans driving nearly 21 billion more miles last year, U.S. highway traffic fatalities dropped 3 percent from 2009 to the lowest levels in recorded history. The fatality rate also dropped, to 1.09 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (V…