Archive for the ‘Green’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Various car companies are promising to have EVs on the road in a couple of years, but they'll still come with very limited range and long recharge times. Pricing should also be a problem as well, but they don't burn any gas if that's critical for you.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
A self-described "Confused Citizen" poses some interesting questions about how we can help the car companies, the planet and even the consumers.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Responding to a growing demand for ways to go green, more European cities put communal bicycles on their old streets using the newest technology.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
In an effort to stop consumers paying for more on service work than they have to, General Motors has outlined some "auto care myths" to bear in mind. You have to think that any company that offers advice has an agenda that involves gain for them, but it's hard to ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
If you own a Prius and you're willing to spend a lot of cash for a battery that lets it run short distances without using gasoline but not actually save any money, there are people willing to help you.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
The story of Sara Janssen, her husband and their 4-year-old daughter moved into a small RV, converted it to run on used vegetable oil and sun panels and set out to tour the country. What can that be like?
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Hybrids have never really made much economic sense for the average buyer because it was hard to recover the cost of their extra cost by small amount you save for gasoline, but with various government incentives drying up and the cost of gasoline falling their financial value is getting worse.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This story reiterates the major things you've heard before about women and the car business -- they prefer green vehicles, safety's important, dealers treat them with disdain, etc. -- but it's worth repeating, and it's good to know they're particularly excited about the coming of the Volt plug-in hybrid.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The ageless rock star has a business that helps people convert gas guzzlers (like his own 1959 Lincoln Continental) to run on alternative fuels.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
More people are going back to doing the things they like to do because they don't have to save money to pay for the gas to do the things they have to do.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Ordinarily cars have gauges in the instrument panel that tell you when something's happening, either good or bad, but starting soon some of Ford's cars will display leaves in the electronic display when the driver's not using much gas.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
A discussion about how people should give up driving somewhere for dating purposes and look for love locally, all in the name of the environment.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The favorite transportation of many real world Gossip Girls and their ultra-rich parents may soon depart the streets of Manhattan in an effort to improve the environment with higher-mileage cars.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
There's no guarantee that either plan will actually come into effect, but at least it might be helpful to see how John McCain and Barack Obama feel about the subject of low-emissions vehicles.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
An LA Times writer does an excellent, funny job of explaining why a truly fabulous car like the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is sometimes worth destroying the planet for.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
With gas prices hovering where they are, it's not altogether clear that the pressure to move from oil to alternative-fuel vehicles won't abate and slow down their development.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
This story out of San Francisco makes a nice counter-balance to all the rabid boosterism for hybrids that have made them seem like a good idea for way too many people.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Tesla has been a media darling for some time now, promising to build an electric car superior to anything that the established car companies could manage. But reality has been catching up with Tesla for some time and the current economic woes have generated more setbacks. The promise is not ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Several car companies, including Toyota and GM, are hoping that new cars that go a limited distance on battery power will open up a new audience for people looking to reduce or reject the use of gasoline. Not everyone thinks the idea's going to work.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
A visit to the Paris auto show makes Time Magazine wonder if the auto industry doesn't have to move more quickly to electric vehicles to overcome many of the woes besetting it and the economy.
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
A couple of big media outlets and a high-profile automotive website have created a segment for TV's Good Morning America that shows ordinary families how to cut down on their transportation costs as they relate to gasoline and driving.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The sense that many of the cars we're going to be driving in five years will be radically different from what we drive now continues to grow with reports out of The City Of Light's auto show. EVs and plug-in hybrids grace many a revolving stage and earned the lion's ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Honda showed off its fourth try at a viable hybrid model at the Paris auto show recently, with North American sales expected in the spring of 2009. No word on mileage for the second version of the Insight, but the company hopes to keep the price low. Three more Honda ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
This website from Washington State's Department of Ecology outlines the environmental problems associated with washing your car at home. There doesn't seem to be much argument against the idea, but there's a large question about whether it's politically practical yet.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
A British writer with no children thinks she doesn't get the credit she deserves for doing more than most people to help save the planet. She reasons that kids only add to the demand for things that aren't good for the environment, like meat, hot baths, the packaging and distribution ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
At first blush the very idea that there's something wrong with inexpensive gasoline might seem totally ridiculous, but this writer fears that lower prices will make it easier to ignore the environment again.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
This story speaks volumes about the difficulties facing a move away from gasoline-powered vehicles even in ultra-green Portland, and says a lot about Toyota's desire to go trolling for publicity just the same.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
In the arcane way that government works, GM says it has achieved preliminary approval for its Chevrolet Volt Electric Vehicle to get a rating in excess of 100 miles per gallon. Since the Volt's still two years away, there are likely to be amendments to this, but the claim does ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
As semi-helpful as hybrids are at reducing the amount of gas we use, none of the current models will actually move us away from gas and on to another fuel. But this environmental writer explains what the best hopes for doing just that might be.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Apparently tired of being the only major car company on the continent not openly dedicated to inventing an alternative-fuel vehicle, Chrysler has announced it's testing three electric vehicles and will put one into production by 2010. If the company picks the EV version of its Town & Country minivan, it ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
By CarAdviceForWomen.com
As you read this, just about every car company that sells cars on this continent has teams of first-class geeks working around the clock to re-invent the automobile in the next couple of years, at least in terms of how good it is at not using gasoline.
So the variation ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Only it's a lot funnier than we've made it seem from that headline. But then how could the star of The Tonight Show not write something that didn't at least try to be funny? It also makes for a pretty interesting overview of how the auto industry has tried to ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Pressed to answer a question about the sexual allure of GM's new alternative-fuel wundercar by Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, GM product boss Bob Lutz suggested that only a certain type of woman would be impressed. As well as being funny, this video clip delivers a pain-free intro to a car ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
If the notion of running your car on the leftovers from a Chinese restaurant and being part of the VO (for vegetable oil) community, this "Worldchanging Editor" from Seattle explains it all for you.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
By 2010 GM will have a vehicle on the road that will be capable of running forever without using a drop of gas -- in the right circumstances. Since those circumstances (driving less than 40 miles a day as a daily habit) apply to about three-quarters of all consumers, this ...
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