The Mitsubishi i MiEV electric city car has won the Japanese Car of the Year “Most Advanced Technology” award at the Tokyo Motor Show.

Chrysler has unveiled three brand new concept vehicles at the Detroit Auto Show, each featuring a different advanced alternative fuel system.

The transport industry has been urged by Clean Air Power to standardise measurement of emissions by using the ‘Well To Wheels’ (WTW) evaluation formula. They claim this gives a true and realistic figure for all fuels from source to powering the engine, rather than simply taking the emission reading from the exhaust.

Honda will unveil a hybrid sports car at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and an increase in the supply of Civic Hybrids to the UK.

Oaktec gave a sneak preview of its brand new Honda Civic Hybrid at Silverstone this weekend to EEMS guests invited to see the race-winning bio-fuel Barwell Aston Martin in action on the track in the Avon British GT3 Championship.

It’s taken a long time coming, but Geneva will be Subaru’s most environmentally-friendly Motor Show ever.

GM has developed HCCI technology (homogenous charge compression ignition), which enables conventional petrol engines to approach diesel-like engine efficiency, but doesn’t require the same expensive exhaust after-treatment to reduce emissions that diesel engines need.

Ricardo, a leading independent technology provider and strategic consultant to the world’s transportation sector industries, has recently unveiled a military hybrid systems demonstrator vehicle.

Nissan and NEC are to mass-produce lithium-ion batteries, to be ready for wide-scale automotive application by 2009.

In 1998, all European car makers voluntarily agreed to reduce the fleet average of CO2 emissions to 140 g/km by 2008 and 120 g/km by 2012.