Green Driving
2011 Nissan Leaf: Nissan Unveils All-Electric Car
Posted: Aug. 03, 2009 11:08:47 a.m.
Nissan hasn't seemed anxious to lead the green car race. While other automakers worked to bring hybrid vehicles to the mainstream, Nissan has appeared to sit on the sidelines, content to offer only the Altima Hybrid, using a Toyota-built powertrain, in just a handful of states.
But Japan's third largest automaker, it seems, was simply biding its time.
The company may actually be the first major automaker to begin widespread sales of an all-electric car. The Nissan Leaf ...
Breaking: House Passes $2 Billion Cash for Clunkers Extension; Program Alive Through Weekend
Posted: Jul. 31, 2009 03:07:14 p.m.
The federal government's Cash for Clunkers program will live on through the weekend, White House officials told reporters today. The House of Representatives, meanwhile, passed a measure to add an additional $2 billion to the program, before members adjourn this afternoon for an August recess. The Senate is expected to take up the measure early next week, where its fate is uncertain.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, "If you were planning on going to buy a ...
Breaking: Cash for Clunkers Will Run Through Weekend; Congress Works to Add Funds
Posted: Jul. 31, 2009 11:07:34 a.m.
"If you were planning on going to buy a car this weekend using [the federal 'cash for clunkers'] program, the program continues to run," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning, according to the New York Times. "If you meet the requirements of the program, the certificates will be honored."
The government's Cash for Clunkers rebate program has not been suspended, administration officials insist, despite media reports to the contrary. Congress is considering additional funding in ...
U.S. Out of Cash for Clunkers; Program Not Suspended, But Dealers Uncertain
Posted: Jul. 31, 2009 09:07:41 a.m.
Well, that was fast. Uncle Sam is out of cash for clunkers.
The New York Times reports, "New-car shoppers appear to have already snapped up all the $1 billion that Congress appropriated for the 'cash for clunkers' program, leading the Transportation Department to tell auto dealers Thursday night to stop offering the rebates." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, however, says the program has not been formally suspended. In a late Thursday statement, Gibbs told reporters, "We are working tonight ...
Cash for Clunkers Junked 4,000 Old Cars on First Day
Posted: Jul. 29, 2009 10:07:27 a.m.
As Uncle Sam sees it, the point of the Cash for Clunkers rebate system wasn't to get you into a better set of wheels. It was to jump start the flagging auto industry and pull old, polluting gas guzzlers off the road. And it's working.
The Detroit Free Press reports, "American motorists looking to scrap their clunkers already have purchased more than 4,000 new vehicles under the $1 billion ‘Cash for Clunkers' program. The National Highway Traffic ...
EPA Mileage Changes Wreck Some Cash for Clunkers Deals
Posted: Jul. 28, 2009 11:07:35 a.m.
Planning to turn in your clunker for a government voucher? Double check the Environmental Protection Agency's mileage numbers before you leave the house. If your old car was eligible last week, it might not be eligible today.
The Detroit Free Press explains, "A last-minute update of federal fuel economy data caused confusion...among shoppers looking at cash-for-clunkers deals, making some old cars and trucks ineligible just as the program launched" The EPA conducted "a review of data on 30 ...
Cash for Clunkers Kicks Off Today
Posted: Jul. 27, 2009 11:07:10 a.m.
The Cash for Clunkers program is finally here. The New York Times reports, "After all the talk, debate and anticipation, the Car Allowance Rebate System (C.A.R.S.), better known as ‘cash for clunkers,' finally kicks off with a press conference this morning by the transportation secretary, Ray LaHood." The program will offer Americans up to $4,500 toward the purchase of a new, more fuel-efficient car when they trade in an older, less fuel-efficient car.
The official rules ...
Don't Get Screwed by Cash for Clunkers
Posted: Jul. 27, 2009 11:07:31 a.m.
Dozens of media reports this morning tout the benefits of the so-called Cash for Clunkers program kicking off this morning - but a few offer important cautions.
The Houston Chronicle warns, "The only way the CARS cash incentive makes good financial sense is if you can afford to buy a new car... Taking on new debt in this economy is not a decision to take lightly, no matter how much money will be knocked off the purchase price to get you ...
Mazda, Toyota Add Cash for Clunkers Incentives
Posted: Jul. 27, 2009 11:07:25 a.m.
The federal Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), also known as Cash for Clunkers, officially kicks off with a media event at the headquarters of the Department of Transportation today - and at car dealerships across the country, many of which have already started accepting old cars. Toyota and Mazda dealers will now greet the event with new incentives.
Kicking Tires reports, "Toyota is one of the few automakers we've heard of that will offer five-year leases, created just for the ...
Cash for Clunkers Officially Launches Amid Hopes, Doubts
Posted: Jul. 24, 2009 11:07:49 a.m.
Update: The program's launch has been delayed until Monday, July 27, apparently due to a problem with the computer system used to register dealerships to participate.
It's official. The federal government is now buying back gas guzzlers and sending them to the crusher.
ABC News reports, "Americans will get a new incentive to trade-in their gas-guzzling cars today when a government rebate program that offers cash vouchers to people who trade in their cars for new fuel-efficient vehicles ...
