While in Anaheim last week covering the AFVI show, AutoblogGreen got a chance to take the 2006 Smart Fortwo Brabus diesel conversion out for a spin. There's no implication a diesel Smart will be on the U.S. market any time soon, but they're fun to drive when available.
Oh, and was Ford's Mulally lying when he said the Ford HySeries Edge plug-in hybrid concept almost killed President Bush?
- Death Car: Ford HySeries Edge almost kills the president
- Availability of E85 pumps could almost double by the end of 2007
- U.K. Channel 4 test drives the Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion
- AFVI Show: Video of our quick drive in the Brabus-converted Smart fortwo
- New Canadian ecoAUTO rebates apply to new 2006 models
- Intelligent Energy teams up with Suzuki to develop fuel-cell motorcycles
- 1000 electric Nissan Sentras (sort of) coming to Mexico from Azure
- 28 new biodiesel pumps open in Iowa, hydrogen comes to Chicago
- PG&E demonstrates first ever vehicle-to-grid charging
- Dow Automotive to supply particulate filters for Peugeot 908
- Oakland works towards oil independence by 2020
- New Tesla blog entry on developing the handling of an electric supercar
- China's biggest car manufacturer to debut fuel-cell vehicle at Shanghai show
- Sens. Durbin and Hagel ask for NIE on security and climate change
- Just because it's a hybrid it doesn't mean it's clean
- Washington State farmers experiment with canola as biodiesel cash crop
