STUTTGART -- Search beyond the distinctive four-headlamp front end and you'll discover that Mercedes-Benz AG's new E-Class -- scheduled for launch this month -- heralds a second, even more significant revolution from the world's oldest carmaker...
Corning Inc. has developed a small ceramic catalytic converter for use close to the engine, where it will reduce cold-start emissions. Corning's "pre-converter" is designed to withstand the high temperature, high-vibration environments in the...
All automakers, no doubt, feel that proving our commitment to environmental protection is important. But for reasons not always obvious, it is sometimes difficult to take consistent, tangible action that bears fruit.Too often the burden of...
In the past, composite molders did two things - shoot and ship - they had little input in design. Today some are working directly with the automakers in strategic partnerships. Materials technology supplier BASF and molder Freudenberg-NOK teamed...
Big Sur, CA - Look out suburbia, there's a new guy in town. Just park that old Chrysler minivan next to the 96 Caravan and Voyager, and if you're style- and comfort-conscious, there'll be a new vehicle in the driveway come next model year.With...
It's much cleaner than the most environmentally friendly fossil fuels, and has the potential to be even cleaner than battery-powered vehicles. Used as fuel in conventional combustion engines, it emits only water vapor and small amounts of nitric...
Chrysler Corp. will have two electric minvans ready by 1997. Built in Windsor, Ontario, off the '96 Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, they'll be priced about $20,000 above internal-combustion-engine vehicles, says Chris Theodore, general manager...
Borrego Springs, CA -- Tiny Kia Motors America Inc. is not shy Bas it carves its way into the crowded U.S. vehicle market. The South Korean automaker has plans for two upscale models and is eyeing U.S. assembly, just a year after it entered the...
Even after spectacular previews at the North American International and Los Angeles auto shows, the automakers still had plenty of new cars to show off in Chicago.Chrysler Corp. pulls the cover back on a rendering of its upcoming Sebring JX...
DEARBORN, MI - As U.S. Big Three representatives provide updates of their ongoing Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), or "Supercar," programs at the Environmental Vehicles '95 (EnV'95) conference here, it becomes increasingly...