Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to make every cab in the Big Apple a hybrid or clean diesel by 2012 has hit a big pothole with a judge’s ruling that only the feds can set fuel efficiency rules. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty granted a temporary injunction halting the plan after ruling the...

  Honda Motor Co. plans to launch a small car by 2009 that uses a new “affordable” gas-electric hybrid engine as well as diesel-powered versions of its larger vehicles as part of a strategy to improve fuel-efficiency of its U.S. models, a senior company executive said Thursday. Tetsuo Iwamura,...

Ford Prodigy is built with light-weight materials and has an aerodynamic design and is based on the Low-Storage-Requirement hybrid powertrain. Features The prodigy has two propulsion systems; a 4 cylinder, 1.2 litre, direct injection diesel engine generating 74 ps at little over 4,000 rpm and a 3-phase...