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Have you wondered how hybrid vehicle sales are doing during these interesting days? John O'Dell has taken a look at those numbers on Green Car Advisor and at first blush it appears that hybrid sales have fallen off more than the average. It's no secret, hybrids haven't been doing well lately, on dealers' lots, in the media, or in a lot of political arguments...

Admit it, when you think of a hyrbid vehicle you're not thinking of a garbage truck. But that's exactly what's being tested in Sweden as refuse hauler Renova is testing Volvo Truck's diesel-electric hybrid. Now the details always bother me, so I'm wondering how much the garbage capacity of the truck is impacted by the added weight of the hybrid system and batteries...

It's like the kiss of death. Your football coach or baseball manager is at the helm of a struggling team and gets the dreaded "vote of confidence". The Volt would seem to be that struggling team...

Apparently going electric is the move of the moment. Chevy's Volt, Renault and Nissan anouncing plans for an electric car network in Israel, so there must be room on the bandwagon, right? Chrysler Corp...

Ran into an interesting  item on John O'Dell's Green Car Advisor that you might want to check out. Evidently they've found a way to make paint that's used to paint vehicles green. The solvent-borne paint contains more pigment than conventional water-borne auto paint, which allows the color to be applied using less paint...

I hope today finds you all getting ready for an absolutely fabulous Christmas day! Just a really neat thing that I came across on Green Car Advisor. That's a battery-electric dragster, "Current Eliminator V" making a record breaking 8.1-second, 153.6 miles-per-hour run...

No, that's not a high school shop project that got a bit out of hand. It's a sculpture titled 'Doubletalk'. Now I know you should sit down for this because you'll be shocked, but you know the energy bill that was just passed and mandates a CAFE average mileage of 35mpg?..

EVS-23 is on in Anaheim, CA. The International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition (EVS) attracts business, policy, industry, and academic leaders from around the world who are interested in exploring and understanding the technical, policy and market challenges of electric transportation technologies. If you'd like an insider's look at the show, be sure to check out John O'Dell's Green Car Advisor...

As reported on Green Car Advisor, General Motors says it expects to soon begin road testing the plug-in hybrid system it will use for the Chevrolet Volt, and continues to insist that it is on schedule to bring the Volt to market in 2010. But the concept that was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show and got everyone worked up isn't exactly turningout to be a practical body design.  Seems GM engineers put it in a wind tunnel to get some numbers and found that it has the drag coefficient of a brick...

The LA Auto Show opened this week (who says Christmas can't come early?) and Edmunds Senior Editor John O'Dell in on hand covering all the green news that fit to print for Green Car Advisor. One day one, the super-fast Nissan GT-R and the hulking hybridized Cadillac Escalade SUV captured a lot of media attention. And Honda is showing the FCX Clarity, a ready-for-production fuel-cell vehicle...