Every other year Shanghai alternates with Beijing as the host of Auto Show China. This year’s show, 2009, was of particular interest due to the major economic, social, and environmental changes affecting the area as well as the rest of the world.

It has almost been a year since GCD featured Professor Lim and his innovative ‘first of its kind’ Motorcycle Design Class at Art Center College...

Part 2 following Green Design Challenge - Leading up to the Geneva Motor Show 2009 eyes are peeled to see what the struggling automotive industry can put on show and how the crisis is affecting styling, especially green design. It looks like everyone...

The Big 3 pull out of Tokyo Motor Show, Honda pulls out of F1, Fiat buys 35% of Chrysler, its all over the news…and its bad news! The news of cutbacks and stops on design projects started at the Paris Auto Show 2008…and was just the tip of the melting...

It is rare to find a man on a mission quite like Martin Aubé – his dream is to build a Canadian automotive design icon in the form of a long-range electric vehicle...

The RCA Graduation Show ended this past week but for some it is the beginning of bright new careers in the automotive design world. For Green Car Design it was an eye opening event that showed us what the future might look like once green technology...

One day you might walk out of your green, or red, or brown, or dark green (depending on the season and the algae’s mood) house and walk down the road to the aqua-plane station to catch your solar energy driven vehicle to work. Its possible, at least...

At Art Center Pasadena, California, a quiet green revolution is starting; one of their professors, Bumsuk Lim, has seized recent momentum in new environmental technologies and raced off.

The first project as a result of the Masdar Initiative is a new 6 million square meter sustainable development within a seven square KM site that interprets the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with renewable technologies, to...