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Automotive Technology

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Honda Civic Hybrid Only Gets 30 Miles Per Gallon? L.A.'s Heather Peters Sues ... The Right Way

    So you bought an ugly, slab-sided Honda Civic hybrid thinking it would, despite its Danny DeVito looks, become the next "it" car for the eco hipsters. Wrong again, ethanol breath. Turns out earlier models of the Civic hybrid came with way less gas mileage than advertised -- 30 versus 50 -- as a re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Texting While Driving? Nationwide Ban on All Cellphone Use in Cars Proposed

    ​The National Transportation Safety Board wants to treat your car like an airplane. Basically, once you buckle up, it's time to shut off all electronic devices. That's the recommendation of the board today following its review of a summer 2010 Missouri highway crash that killed two and injure ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Texting Til Death: Half of Young Americans do it While Driving

    amber10​We here at LA Weekly are a little sick of needless, nebulous state laws that give cops way too much power to conduct fund raising write tickets. Case-in-point: California's retarded texting-while-driving law which, apparently, has done nothing to deter texting-while-driving, but has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Explosion at Pacoima Commercial Building Injures Employees, Takes Out Roof

    Google Maps​Updated at the bottom with news that the owner had been cited by California workplace health authorities in the past. First posted at 4:43 p.m. A large explosion seriously injured at least four people and took out a good part of a commercial building in Pacoima today, according to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Hybrid Carpool Lane Access Ending Friday in California: Yay!

    ​Ah, hybrid owners -- how we love to hate you. So smug behind the wheel of your fuel efficient dork-mobiles, switching four lanes just to get to the carpool zone where you'll pass us all by. No more. California's "Yellow Clean Air Vehicle Stickers" expire for good on Friday, so you'll have t ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2011

    Veggie-Powered Road Trip

    A Frank Gehry design whiz creates biofueled Volkswagens

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel: Comedy Tweeting Duo

    A Frank Gehry design whiz creates biofueled Volkswagens

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Top 10 'Green Cars' Announced: Which One Is Your Roadside Status Symbol?

    Number one.​Remember when Escalades, Navigators and Hummers were all the rage? Dubs (20-inch-plus wheels), loud exhaust and bass music, right? Doesn't that seem like a million years ago? Today to be a true player in L.A., more modest hybrids are the status symbols to have. Kelly Blue Book on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Toyota Suffers Another Blow As SUV Deemed A 'Safety Risk'

    ToyotaLexus GX in L.A.​Toyota's having a bad 2010. A week after learning that 200 lawsuits over so-called "sudden acceleration" and other alleged Toyota defects would be heard here in Los Angeles, the carmaker's North American leaders in Torrance woke up to the headline that Consumer Reports m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    U.S. Seeks $16 Million-Plus Fine From Toyota

    ​The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking the maximum fine of more than $16 million against Toyota Motor Corporation for remaining silent about acceleration problems four months even though it allegedly knew about its "sticky pedal" issues, the U.S. Department of T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Figuring Out Toyota's Acceleration Problems IS Rocket Science

    U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.​As smug as Toyota has been in declaring recent allegations of sudden-acceleration in its cars unfounded, it's wild to see U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announcing Tuesday that none other than NASA will be helping federal officials find th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Toyota Poised To Blame Driver In San Diego Sudden-Acceleration Case

    ​No surprise here: Toyota's stance on the out-of-control acceleration famously experienced by a Prius driver earlier this month will mirror that of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the auto-industry-backed congressman who's been meddling in the case (on behalf of whom?) and practically attacking the ch ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2010

    THERE'S SOMETHING FUNNY GOING ON MONDAYS AT 11 P.M.

    ​No surprise here: Toyota's stance on the out-of-control acceleration famously experienced by a Prius driver earlier this month will mirror that of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the auto-industry-backed congressman who's been meddling in the case (on behalf of whom?) and practically attacking the ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Who Builds The Electric Car? Possibly Torrance

    GMThe Chevrolet Volt.​In a strange reversal for Southern Californians who lamented the death of General Motors' EV1 electric car more than ten years ago, the car company announced it will invest $6 million in its Torrance Advanced Technology Center as it gears up to help the car maker produce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Mayor V. Has A Lot Of 'Capital,' Gives L.A. Yet Another New Title

    ​You know him as the man who coined the phrases "farmers market capital of the world," "America's undisputed creative capital," and, of course, "the eco-fashion capital of the world," has created a new tag-line for Los Angeles. That's right, from this week forward, Los Angeles is the "capital ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    'Who Killed The Electric Car?' Not I, Says GM

    General Motors announced Wednesday that its much-anticipated Volt electric car will be available in California first, with the roll-out happening sometime late next year. The announcement was made to media at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. "It is natural that California is the lead market ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 11, 2008

    Taiwan Film Festival Needs No Headline

    General Motors announced Wednesday that its much-anticipated Volt electric car will be available in California first, with the roll-out happening sometime late next year. The announcement was made to media at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. "It is natural that California is the lead market ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

    A solar White House

  • Columns

    February 1, 2007

    Fuel's Gold

    While Bush and Schwarzenegger rush to market biofuels, the fact is that not all ethanol is created equally.

  • Music

    November 9, 2006

    Black Fag Is a Cover Band

    While Bush and Schwarzenegger rush to market biofuels, the fact is that not all ethanol is created equally.

  • Columns

    July 27, 2006

    Four Electric Seconds

    While Bush and Schwarzenegger rush to market biofuels, the fact is that not all ethanol is created equally.

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Pump It Up

    USA Petroleum tests biodiesel

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    The Crisco Kid

    Brian Friedman wants you to fill 'er up with veggie oil

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

    Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

  • Film+TV

    June 29, 2006

    Film Reviews

    Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

  • LA Life

    February 23, 2006

    LA Vida

    Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

  • LA Life

    February 23, 2006

    Green and Bare It

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    Letters

    Biodiesel can be sexy

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Better Mileage On Ice

    Why refrigerators are more efficient than cars

  • Columns

    July 21, 2005

    Bio Goes Bling

    Why refrigerators are more efficient than cars

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Clean Air vs. Cancer

    A federal judge re-affirms California's authority to fight pollution

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Doctor Goodwrench

    A federal judge re-affirms California's authority to fight pollution

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Black Sheep on the Head of a Pin

    Why they won’t let badass batteries out of the pen

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Greasel, not Diesel

    Or what to do with all that old French-fry oil . . .

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Get Real Juiced

    How your electric car can power your life

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Hijacked by Hybrids

    Who unplugged the electric car?

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    A Life in 10 Cars

    Who unplugged the electric car?

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    War Over Air

    Governor’s role in cleaning L.A. skies

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Lord of the Race

    Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

  • Columns

    January 15, 2004

    Halfway to Venus

    Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Curb Your SUV

    Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Kiddie Diesel

    A cut-rate, questionable cure for school-bus pollution

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Letters

    A cut-rate, questionable cure for school-bus pollution

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    Pacoima Reality Check

    What do electric cars have to do with inner-city air quality?

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Cross of Gold

    The California Air Resources Board swivels in the battle of the standards

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    The Big Blowup

    A mom’s guide to dumping Firestone tires

  • Calendar

    January 18, 2001

    Forward Into the Past

    California regulators jilt the electric car

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Imperfect Recall

    I’m okay, the problem is my cheap car

  • News

    December 17, 1998

    All Juiced Up and No Place To Go

    The electric car underwhelms California

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