FuelEfficiency

    By John Rosevear, The Motley Fool

    | 10:20AM 3/27/2012
    General Motors really wants you to love the Chevy Volt, but the GM car everyone actually lusts after is the Camaro. Now, with automakers under pressure to improve fuel economy, GM faces a challenge -- how to update a gas-guzzling V8 icon for a greener world.

    By Bruce Watson

    | 3:25PM 2/23/2012
    Gas prices are going up again, and it feels a lot like Groundhog Day: Same old problem, and media outlets are dispensing the same old advice. Not us! Here are the most interesting and innovative ideas our readers offered for reducing your pain at the pump.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 6:30AM 1/06/2012
    BP has big problems, and not just because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the $20 billion compensation fund it set up to pay the victims. The petro-giant has been missing Wall Street's profit targets lately, thanks to sloppy operations and a general trend toward lower gasoline consumption.

    By Dan Radovsky, The Motley Fool

    | 5:00AM 8/02/2011
    In the year 2025 If man is still alive Cars that get good mileage We will drive. At least that's the plan. Last week, the Obama administration unwrapped its latest fuel-mileage requirements: 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. That is double the current corporate average fuel economy standards, also...

    By Ron Dicker

    | 3:00PM 7/01/2011
    If you're among the 39 million Americans on the road for the Fourth of July weekend, you're burning up hard-earned money with every mile. Pump prices were still averaging a hefty $3.55 a gallon across the nation for regular on July 1, so it's time to fuel up on gas-saving tips.

    By Bob Cesca

    | 4:15PM 2/11/2010
    You might have heard about something called the Pinto Memo. The Ford Motor Company created a formula for determining whether to recall the notorious Pinto hatchback for safety concerns. And by "safety concerns," I mean, "they would randomly explode during rear-end collisions." The calculation...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 8:30AM 6/20/2008
    Fuel efficiency has quickly become the most important factor for many people exploring car purchases, but it may not be as simple as we thought. A car that gets 34 miles per gallon is more fuel efficient than one that gets 32, but it's hardly worth upgrading, right? Well, maybe not.A paper in...

    By Tracy Coenen

    | 4:30PM 6/04/2008
    General Motors has announced an official shift from the production of large, gas-guzzling vehicles to smaller more fuel-efficient sedans. If you didn't see this coming then you're surely living under a rock. High gas prices have forced a change in car-buyers. They simply aren't buying SUVs and...