Now who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?  If you're looking to invest in a greener car but you'd rather have something more family-oriented, then look no further than Toyama, Japan's Takeoka Jidosha Kogei. This family-run business uses not robots to make their eco-friendly cars, but a line of 12 mechanics that see the car's engine to the headlights handdone. The cars cost around $9,600 and run on a lithium-ion battery which...

A steely group of researchers at UK's Warwick University have been hard at work on a truly unique eco-friendly racecar.  The Formula 3 car is, “powered by chocolate, steered by carrots," according to its builders. Making a stab at a green car, the team of researchers has used chocolate waste and vegetable oil on the biodiesel engine, and carrot fibers make up the steering wheel, not to mention the plant oil lubricants and the flax fiber...