When Americans debate the impact of fuel emissions on the environment, they usually talk about cars and trucks. But what about smaller vehicles like motorcycles, scooters, lawnmowers and ATVs?
General Motors announced Tuesday that it intends to become the first major automaker to design and manufacture electric motors for cars in the United States.
In late 1995, six months after Toyota decided to move forward with its revolutionary hybrid, the Prius, and two years before the car was supposed to go into production in Japan, the engineers worki...
New York (FORTUNE Magazine) - In late 1995, six months after Toyota decided to move forward with its revolutionary hybrid, the Prius, and two years before the car was supposed to go into production in Japan, the engineers working on the project had a problem. A big problem.
Money Magazine: Motor Mouthupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
Q. I've been seeing TV ads where a couple of guys ask the Dodge pickup driver, "That thing got a Hemi in it?" So what exactly is a Hemi? And do I really want one?
Joe Rice is smokestack industry's new best friend. That's an unaccustomed role for Rice, since he is the co-leader of Motley Rice (formerly Ness Motley), the most feared asbestos/tobacco/mass-tor...
Talk about a lousy start to a new job. On Oct. 21, barely six weeks after being named chief executive of ABB, the Switzerland-based electrical engineering giant, Jurgen Dormann was forced to issue ...
All history, it has been said, can be condensed to two words: "challenge" and "response." They determine the fate of mighty empires. They even apply to the everyday problem of air pollution from sm...
One morning early in August, a fire truck, an ambulance, and a convoy of vehicles crammed with machinery, spare parts, and test instruments arrived at Willow Springs Race Track in the desert outsid...
The business of burning trash to create electricity still emits more than a few hot sparks. A new foreign player has taken over one of the six major U.S. firms in the business. Meanwhile, the Envir...
LIKE POSITIONS on a professional baseball team, listings on the FORTUNE 500 are hard to win and tough to hang on to. Aggressive new talent is always pushing up from the farm clubs, itching for the ...
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