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Honda Release Environmental Report
Honda have released their fourth annual North American Environmental Report that you can read online. But why should you care? It’s a report that (almost) regardless of content I’m very pl...
How Many MPG Does Your Prius Get?
Five Boston Globe staffers race their Toyota Prius hybrids from a Whole Foods in Cambridge to the Hummer dealership in Norwood. Highest MPG wins, though some slow driving was probably necessary! Only ...
Get Solar Electricity For Your Electric Car
An interesting video for you, the first half is about Zap Electric cars, a company with a very tall president with very small cars. The second half is about how they have teamed up with Akeena Solar p...
A Cheap Electric Sports Car?
Well, not exactly cheap, but it’s not $100,000 like the Tesla Roadster. Wired reports that the electric ZAP Alias will retail for around $30,000 in mid-2009. What may not be immediately obvious...
How Cars Are Recycled
I’ve never really thought about it, but apparently cars are the most recycled consumer item in the US. This must be by size, not number as they beat newspapers and cans with 15m vehicles recycle...
Solar Powered Car From University Of Michigan
Besides the glitzy car manufacturers, one of the most interesting parts of the Detroit Auto Show 2008 were the solar cars from the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Solar Car Team is ...
Tesla Electric Supercar To Arrive In March 08
Absent from the Detroit Auto Show, Tesla’s electric sportscar will go on sale in March 2008. At $100,000 it’s too rich for my blood, but for those who are going to buy a sportscar anyway (...
Automotive X-Prize
The X PRIZE Foundation was created by Dr. Peter H. Diamandis who strongly believes that focused and talented teams in pursuit of a prize and acclaim can change the world. It’s an educational non...
Chat Live With GM About The Environment
A great opportunity to chat to an executive from the automotive world, on Wednesday February 6th GM executive Brent Dewar (North America Vice President of Field Sales, Service and Parts) will be onlin...
Win With The Super Cars Shout Out Competition
What if you could be rewarded by thanking other people who, by driving less polluting cars, are doing a small part to help the environment? Well, with the Super Cars Shout Out Competition from PlanetT...
Green Cars and Green Claims - Part 3
This is the final part of a three-part series. For the first part go here, or follow this link for all Detroit Auto Show 2008 articles. Chrysler Chrysler had a nice big sign up for their Aspen two mo...
Green Cars and Green Claims - Part 2
This is part two of a three-part series. For the first part go here, or follow this link for all Detroit Auto Show 2008 articles. Toyota Toyota is well known for their Prius, but this is a purpose bu...
Green Cars and Green Claims - Part 1
This is part one of a three-part series. Follow this link for all Detroit Auto Show 2008 articles. At the Detroit Auto Show I’ve seen many claims and examples of cleaner vehicles and alternative...
Bob Lutz GM Vice Chairman Interview
As a guest of GM at the Detroit Auto Show, I was fortunate enough to sit down with a small group of people (that gradually got larger the more we talked…) and speak with Bob Lutz, GM’s Vic...
Green Detroit Auto Show Just For Show?
As I first mentioned in my opening post about the Detroit Auto Show, this show was greener than any before it. This is, however, in terms of the cars and technologies that were displayed, not the show...
Ethanol From Garbage?
In Detroit General Motors (GM) announced a deal with a small company called Coskata to produce ethanol for...
Detroit Auto Show 08 Goes Green?
This year’s Detroit Auto Show has been hailed by some as the greenest auto show to date. And they’re right - from what experienced professionals have told me this show has by far the large...
Fancy An Air Powered Car?
In advance of my attendance at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), I thought I’d share this clip with you from the excellent Gas2.0. It’s a BBC article concerning the launc...
