Less than a mile per gallon. That’s all the further improvements in technology have gotten us in more than two decades. On-road fuel economy for the entire fleet of vehicles – cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles – improved to 17.6…
Shoppers who swallow hard and pay a premium for the clean technology and fuel efficiency of a new electric vehicle (EV) evidently need to gulp even harder when they trade-in or sell that vehicle. Some electrics are losing so much…
Kids and cars. Most parents just can’t read those words without thinking child safety. September is a good month for that, seemingly as full of reminders as it is: Child Passenger Safety Week and Childhood Injury Prevention Week, National Seat…
Will you go shopping on Black Friday? No, not the day after Thanksgiving, which still is several months away. But its car-shopping equivalent (according to Fortune magazine): Labor Day, which falls on Sept. 7 this year. “Labor Day means the…
We’re dummies when it comes to hybrid and electric vehicles. That’s what green-car experts seem to think anyway. Because of that, we don’t buy as many alternative-fuel vehicles as we should – they accounted for only about 3.5 percent of…
The future of car-hacking is now. That appears to be the lesson of the recent demonstration of hacking involving a Jeep Cherokee, which instigated the recall of about 1.4 million vehicles by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Evidence suggests that drivers…