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Mercedes-Benz (ETR: DAI) recently announced that they will deploy 70 fuel cell vehicles onto California roads by 2012. The B-class Mercedes-Benz vehicles are designed to have a 270-mile driving range on one tank of hydrogen and take less than five minutes to refuel.

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), which is heavily invested in fuel efficiency and battery technology plans introduce its Focus electric

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)and Coulomb Technologies are working together to provide free in-home and public charging stations as part of a $37 million project.

Ford Motor Company's Executive Chairman Bill Ford says the company will be staking its future in the production of fuel efficient vehicles.

Bill Ford says the technology not only exists to introduce electric vehicles to mainstream consumers, but the demand exists as well.

The past few months have seen Detroit automotive heavies, Ford (NYSE:F), General Motors Corporation (GM), and Chrysler, all announce plans to re-tool existing automobile factories to manufacture energy-efficient engines.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has unveiled plans today to build a new "next generation" Explorer SUV in 2011.

Currently hybrid and electric vehicles constitute only 3% of the world market for cars.  However, if actions by major car manufacturers are any indication, it looks as though that number will be on the rise throughout the near future.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has loaned $5.9 billion to Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) to transform factories in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to produce more fuel efficient vehicles.

Two up-and-coming cleantech players have intentions to breathe new life into Ford Motor Company's (NYSE: F) now-abandoned Wixom Assembly Plant in Southeastern Michigan—which for 50 years produced Lincoln Town Cars, Thunderbirds and other vehicles—converting the historic complex into an energy pa