(May 26, 2011) WASHINGTON — The Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday unveiled new fuel economy window stickers that will be on all cars for model year 2013.

The stickers will show how new vehicles rate on a scale of 1-to-10 on fuel economy and emissions, the Obama administration said as it dropped a controversial proposal to use letter grades.

(May 26, 2011) LONDON — Charging a Nissan Leaf in London has become simpler and cheaper with the launch of the Source London charging network. To mark the start of the initiative, Nissan is providing Leaf owners across the capital with access to the charging points for free.

(May 25, 2011) SANTA MONICA, Calif. — TrueCar.com forecasts that light vehicles sales in May will be 1,060,391 units, an 8.3 percent drop from April and down 3.7 percent from May 2010.

The most stunning forecast from TrueCar is that Korean automaker Hyundai/Kia is expected to end the month with the third largest market share among the top seven automakers finishing ahead of the Japanese companies and falling behind only General Motors and Ford with a predicted 115,434 units sold.

(May 25, 2011) DETROIT — General Motors is adding two shifts and about 2,500 hourly and salaried jobs at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build the new Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan and the next-generation Impala large sedan alongside the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera electric cars.