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Top 5 Hybrid Driving Hotties

Okay, so Discover Hybrid Cars is starting to look more like Discover Hybrid Girls, but hey, we love girls. And, we especially love skinny, hippy-ish girls who are hell-bent on saving the planet. And if these girls happen to be adorable celebrity types bumping around in hemp clothing and hybrids, t See more details

5 Treehuggers We Want to Hug

Saving the planet can be so tiresome, so it’s nice to know that you’re not alone in your green endeavors. Since green is the new chic, there are many high-profile celebrities helping shoulder the burdens of being green. Today we salute these comrades in arms, or rather, comrades into whose arm See more details

5 Hot Chicks Guaranteed to Charge Your Hybrid Batteries

In what’s shaping up to be an installment series on ways to keep your hybrid batteries juiced, here’s the latest method: Women. Just the sight of certain women—especially those of the beautiful, sexy, curvaceous celebrity variety—is enough to get any red-blooded American’s motor running; See more details

5 Songs Guaranteed to Charge Your Hybrid Batteries

We know that regenerative braking and all sorts of other techno-goodies go into charging the batteries in your hybrid. But, if there were a way to help recharge them by listening to tunes, would certain songs do a better job of it? And if so, what would those songs be? We convinced the Hybrid Car See more details

Homebuilt Full Electric for 3 Grand? Yup!

  This is Discover Hybrid Cars, but is there a tree hugger among us who can resist the prospect of a full electric? How about a full-electric classic VW bug? I thought not! Well, hold on to your hippy hats—the folks over at Wilderness E.V. now sell a range of DIY electric kits designed to plop See more details

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Wicked E-Ticket Ride - Audi e-tron at Detroit

Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:18 Keen & Green
e-tron

First released at the Frankfurt Auto show, then as a revamped version for LA, the crew at Auto Union unveiled their latest iteration of the Audi e-tron concept at the Detroit Auto Show this week. Dubbed of all things, Audi e-tron Detroit Concept, this Motown machine is expected to boogie. With 2 motors putting 204 battery-powered ponies to the rear wheels and a what-the-fuck-were-they-thinking 1,955 ft lbs of torque, this is one hot plug in. Expect this techno-speeder to hit the road in about 2 years.

 

Source: autoblog

 

5 Songs Guaranteed to Charge Your Hybrid Batteries

Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:27 Keen & Green
HIGH VOLTAGE!

We know that regenerative braking and all sorts of other techno-goodies go into charging the batteries in your hybrid. But, if there were a way to help recharge them by listening to tunes, would certain songs do a better job of it? And if so, what would those songs be?

We convinced the Hybrid Cars resident music snob to take some time out of his busy schedule and help us out. So, instead of pontificating about John Prine’s heavy influence on Buckwheat Zydeco’s accordion arrangements, he put together this list of 5 songs guaranteed to juice your cathodes:

 

Porsche Won’t Say the “H” Word

Friday, 08 January 2010 22:35 Keen & Green

No Hybrid Zone

If you’ve been delaying your hybrid purchase because you were waiting for a performance model, your wait IS NOT over. Herr Michael Macht, CEO of Porsche, says the Stuttgart automaker has no plans for a Porsche hybrid right now. Apparently they’re not willing to sacrifice performance for what some would consider marginal gains in fuel mileage and green impact. Now, we love hybrids here, but you gotta applaud the man for sticking to the very mentality that made Porsche what it is today—unadulterated performance.

Source: 0-60 Magazine

 

Bavarian Hybrid, the Spy Shots

Thursday, 07 January 2010 19:00 Keen & Green

Hybrid Snobitude

Not meant to be unveiled until the Geneva Auto Show in March, the new BMW 1-Series Hybrid—yes Hybrid—has been spied. Those sneaky photogs over at Winding Road not only got the shots, they posted ‘em right here.

 

Got My Orange Crush

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:24 Keen & Green

Courtesy of Winding Road and Joe Case

In our eggnog induced holiday haze, we seemed to have missed our call from Elon Musk to test drive the new 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport. Luckily, somebody (obviously more responsible than us) over at Winding Road did get the call—here’s what they have to say about this $120K slot car.

 


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