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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has chimed in the ongoing lawsuit between his company, the boutique electric car manufacturer, and the BBC and its prized motoring show, Top Gear. In the episode where they reviewed the Tesla Roadster, Top Gear showed the electric sports car breaking down and being pushed into [...]

I am still very fond of my TomTom GPS. Been using it for a couple years now and it’s helped get me out of some very nasty situations where I would have been completely lost. And every time I hear about TomTom, it seems like they’re offering something even better [...]

More drama is coming out in the dispute between boutique electric car manufacturer Tesla and English motoring show Top Gear and the BBC, where it airs. Executive Producer Andy Wilman has broken the BBC’s silence on the issue and written a piece on auto blog Jalopnik, where he explains his believe that [...]

Oil dependence is not really a good foreign strategy, as the current US administration believes. One way to minimize dependence on fossil fuels is to use green vehicles, which is part of Barack Obama’ plans for the next decade or so.

And just like that, a significant part of the problem with electric cars was rendered at least mostly moot. There have been some problems with the new concept–stuff like design, and range, and the lack of places to which you can patch in your new buggy and juice up. But [...]

Something of a donnybrook getting ready over in London, as three of our favorite things–cars, green tech, and high-def television–get ready to launch a smackdown of epic proportions. The folks out at Tesla have filed a libel suit against the BBC, producers of the legendary car show Top Gear.

One of the newest items to emerge from the CTIA 2011 show is the Jabra Freeway, a device that will really put some extra punch in your morning commute, or alternately, on those really, really long drives.

For those of you who thought that CTIA was going to be a huge romp of cell phones and precious little else, well, I’ve got just what you’ve been looking for: car news. Really! Turns out the folks at Ford are getting in league with the crew out at AT&T [...]

We all know the dangers of texting while driving. Even talking while driving isn’t exactly the safest thing, and even with hands-free car kits and the like, can still be a difficult proposition. But the folks out at Sprint think they’ve got an answer in the form of a new [...]

Green technology is as much about finding more efficient ways to utilize existing technologies as it is about finding alternatives (like electric, hybrid and alternative fuels). For one, Mercedez-Benz has designed lean-burning engines, but says US fuels are not clean enough.