The Ford Escape Hybrid (the first hybrid SUV) has been a big hit at dealerships across the nation in recent years and have become a common site on the streets of America. Even President elect, Barak Obama owns a Ford Escape Hybrid. In an effort to determine how well this hybrid suv performs in day [...]

Here come the Chinese! While most of us are familiar with the hybrid powered cars that are being offered by a number of well known asian automakers, there is a new force on the horizon.  Chinese automakers are aiming to get a piece of the world wide hybrid powered car market and have some interesting [...]

In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy collaborated with the “Big 3″ American car makers GM, Ford, and Chrysler, to challenge the dominance of their Japanese and European counterparts in the development of hybrid powered cars. Millions of dollars were put into a huge project specifically for the development of American hybrid cars and [...]