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13 May 2007 posted in Etc. 1 views
It must be fast, look at all the stickers From the too much time on his hands file, we bring you this unfortunately customized Renault Clio. The owner of this little French runabout has a serious sticker fetish, and a hankering for knicknacks ...
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14 April 2007 posted in Sedans/Saloons 4 views
Porsche Panamera update: New renderings, production issues The April 16th issue of AutoWeek is hitting mailboxes across the country, but for those of you without a subscription or who are too lazy to make it to the mailbox, they've produced a new rendering of ...
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19 October 2006 posted in Videos 4 views
VIDEO: The '88 Mustang GT makes its presence felt All black, save for that signature red stripe. Driving lights on. 5.0 badge. Flat out, balls-to-the-wall in the middle of nowhere. Disrupting electricity. Waking animals from slumber. It is the 1988 F ...
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21 September 2006 posted in Green 50 views
EEStor ceramic electric motor Alternative-fuel engines of different sorts all suffer from one major drawback or another: poor range, hard-to-find filling stations, high cost, poor performance. EEStore is out to change all that wit ...
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21 July 2006 posted in Green 11 views
PML MINI QED boasts 640 in-wheel electric horsepower The world's fastest plug-in hybridApparently high-performance electric vehicles are today's supercar du jour (see Tesla Roadster and OBVIO! 828). British firm PML decided, however, that not enough att ...
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26 June 2006 posted in Government/Legal 9 views
U.S. Supreme Court to consider government's role in CO2 regulation The Supreme Court announced Monday that it has agreed to hear an appeal filed by a number of states, cities and environmental groups hoping to force the federal government to regulate carbon dioxide e ...
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8 May 2006 posted in Green 5 views
BMW using methane to fuel its paint shop Garbage and painting normally don't mix well, but BMW's Spartanburg facility in South Carolina has just become the first automotive paint shop to fuel its operations using methane obtained from a land ...
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4 May 2006 posted in Green 8 views
Green fuel from an even greener source One common complaint about "green" technologies such as electric cars is that production of such alternatives continue to harm the environment. Critics are quick to point out that coal-burni ...
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24 April 2006 posted in Etc. 5 views
Instant de-icing film While not directly addressing vehicles, sibling-site's Engadget's post on pulse electrothermal de-icing (PETD) technology definitely has applications in the automotive industry.Developed by Dartmouth ...
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12 April 2006 posted in Earnings/Financials 9 views
Ford's Mark Fields happy with At the New York Auto Show Wednesday, Ford Motor's President of the Americas, Mark Fields, said "we're very pleased with our early progress" with the Way Forward plan - the company's roadmap ...
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22 December 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 9 views
Green power. Literally. MagCap Engineering, a magnetics manufacturer, and Gordon W. Wadle, an inventor, have patented a method to capture energy from plants and turn it into DC power.Currently (so to speak), the system works ...
Tags: plants, amp, 12 volts, electricity, hybrid cars, batteries, investors, inventor, dc power, circuitry, magcap
2 December 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 3 views
Federal agencies get sued over not buying alternative energy vehicles The Departments of Labor, Commerce, Transportation and Veterans Affairs settled a lawsuit in San Francisco on Wednesday, where they were possibly on the losing end of a court battle regarding the purc ...
Tags: natural gas, electricity, diesel, alternative fuels, vehicle purchases, ethanol, propane, alternative energy, energy policy act, center for biological diversity, federal government agencies, tuscon arizona, dependence on foreign oil, energy vehicles, president george h w bush, bluewater network, departments of labor, george h w bush, veterans affairs, cia
15 November 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 9 views
Honda rolls out Home Energy Station III for Fuel Cell Vehicles Honda R&D Americas introduced the Home Energy Station III Monday, its latest step toward a viable hydrogen fueled vehicle system. Developed with fuel cell technology partner Plug Power, Inc., the ...
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18 August 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 6 views
Toyota's officially responds to a plug-in Prius Irv Miller, Toyota's Group Vice President for Corporate Communications, recently responded to an email sent by the Yahoo Gridable Hybrids group. In it Miller makes clear Toyota's stance on the possibi ...
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9 August 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 6 views
New hydrogen generation technique announced It's inevitable that any discussion about hydrogen-power cars takes a turn towards the "... and just where are we going to get all that hydrogen from?" angle in about 30 seconds.. Researchers in Israe ...
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22 June 2005 posted in Economy 5 views
Thomas Friedman argues for a Toyota-owned GM The New York Times' foreign affairs columnist argues that Toyota's hybrid technology and other moves to reducing oil dependancy would be a strategic boon for the US. He frames his argument in very sim ...
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2 June 2005 posted in Aftermarket 18 views
Xstatic Batcap: Your car battery will thank you Here's another little-known aftermarket manufacturer called Xstatic that makes a great product in the form of its Batcap line of high-discharge car batteries. (WARNING: learning follows) The chemical ...
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2 April 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 13 views
Hacking a Prius The fact that you had to plug in a purely electric car was a bad thing, but for a crop of Prius hackers it brings 20 -140 mpg increase in the hybrid's gas saving abilities. People have been adding mor ...
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5 January 2005 posted in Trends 3 views
Potential hybrid safety hazards Unlike the misconstrued editorial we talked about earlier in the week there are a few "real" dangers when it comes to hybrids. They mainly involve first responders to auto accidents. Now that hybrid e ...
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29 October 2004 posted in Trends 7 views
Ford to start testing fuel cells Not in their cars, but in their plants. Ford first tested the idea in their Rouge assembly complex in Dearborn, MI. This application will be in the Oakville, Ontario plant. The process collects fumes ...
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