Alt Fuels

Top 10 States Offering Incentives for Fuel Efficient Vehicles

Here are some of the best electric car incentives offered in these seven (California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont) and other states.

10 Best Car List Shows a Lot of Green

Every year Consumer Reports tallies up the complaints and gripes from its millions of readers and adds in its own staff test conclusions with the result—a list of the 10 Best Cars covering a like number of categories.

2010 Honda Civic GX CNG

Natural Gas Vehicles: A Viable Solution or Just Another Pipe Dream?

An alternative to petroleum-based fuel is urgently needed to address climate change concerns, so the search is on for a car that is not only environmentally friendly, but also something that can be easily adapted into our everyday routines. One alternative of increasingly interest, which has led to a few instances of fleets making a switch, is NGVs or natural gas vehicles.

2010 Honda Civic GX CNG

ROAD TEST: 2013 Honda Civic Natural Gas

When looking at alternative fuel vehicles, hybrid, electric and diesel are the most common options based on sales and choice. One other fuel, compressed natural gas (CNG) doesn’t get much attention, probably because there is only one mass-produced CNG-fueled car on the market–the Honda Civic. So if Honda alone believes in this technology for passenger cars, what are they seeing that their competitors aren’t and what is the future for CNG?

Road Test: 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Z71 Crew Cab

n the market for a truck? How about a really nice truck that seats five or six big adults very comfortably, comes ready to act as your office on wheels, can tow pretty much anything you have in mind and if necessary, can get you through the mud and muck over hill and dale? Or maybe you are looking to “feel like a man,” which is what the SoCal Chevrolet dealers radio commercial told me that driving the 2014 Silverado will do. Other commercials note that the Chevy pickup’s V8 gets better fuel economy than rival Ford’s V6. That must be some truck!