Pininfarina to Build 4000 Tiny Electric Cars

This is the Pininfarina B0 electric city car … and 4000 (four-thousand) of these slick little Smart-slayers will be hitting the roads of Paris as early as 2013.
4000 is quite a number (especially in the green car universe), but this isn’t some commo…

2 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back: 2012 Ford F-650

Last week, Ford announced that it would be resurrecting the discontinued 6.8L V10 gasoline engine for service in the 2012 F-650 commercial truck … a move which, to me, seems baffling.
Keep in mind, we’re not talking about consumer vehicles here.  I…

Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Lubrizol for $9.7 billion

Berkshire Hathaway announced it’s buying Lubrizol, which among other things makes additives for fuel and oil, for about $9.7 billion — $135 per share in an all-cash transaction, one of the largest acquisitions in Berkshire Hathaway history.

Diesel Prices Push $4 a Gallon

The price of diesel fuel rose for the 15th week in a row to an average of $3.908 nationwide, according to the Department of Energy, but at a less-steep rate than the double-digit gains of the past two weeks — 3.8 cents higher than last week and 98….

Former Qualcomm Exec Joins Rand McNally

Jim Rodi has joined Rand McNally as senior vice president of mobile communications. Rodi, who spent the past 11 years at Qualcomm, will be responsible for driving sales and business development for Rand McNally’s TruckPC line of products.