For two years Rolls-Royce has tempted luxury lovers with rumors of an electric limousine but as of yet there has been no proof of such production at the Britain-located manufacturing plant. But now there looks to be greener news in the Rolls-Royce lineup with hints that the electric limo may soon be on its way. Before Christmas the Rolls Royce chief executive Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes indicated that the car maker was in the process of...

Named the 2011 European Car of the Year, the new and uber eco-friendly Nissan Leaf celebrated its US release this past weekend and the response was, of course, overwhelming. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area was the lucky individual to claim the first Leaf stateside, and the other launch markets of Arizona, Southern California, Oregon, Seattle, and Tennessee are now seeing their first Leafs land to a grand reception. In fact, the new...

What a tragedy!  It appears that just recently legend Neil Young's eco-friendly car went up in flames and took several vintage guitars and paintings with it at a San Francisco warehouse. Young's fuel-efficient car was a vintage 1959 Lincoln Continental that was converted into a battery-powered vehicle.  According to reports, car’s charging system was responsible for the fire that took over a warehouse in San Francisco’s San Carlos...

If you weren't one of the few that planned ahead and have already paid for and reserved a Nissan Leaf, then you might have to wait until after the first of 2011 to drive your new electric car off the lot. But if you're one of the lucky ones, you will soon be test driving and taking away your compact five-door hatchback electric car next month.  Come December the Leaf will be hitting all major US cities, with the smaller cities catching...

And you thought Aston Martin was just another car company that didn't give any thought to eco-friendliness.  Well then, you haven't met their new subcompact luxury car, the Cygnet. Pretty much a repackaged Toyota iQ but with more class and luxury, the green Cygnet comes with a gas-efficient engine and all the bells and whistles you could want. The Cygnet is a rebadged Toyota iQ equipped with the same 97hp 1.3-liter engine but outfitted...