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Feds mull an extra three months to crush Cash For Clunkers victims

What do you do with some 700,000 recently clunked cars? Send them to scrap heaps, naturally. According to the initial set of rules drafted when Cash for Clunkers was first launched, all those vehicles need to be processed properly, which includes removing most (if not all) of the good usable parts from each vehicle before sending the remaining hulk through crush and melt-down machines. That's all well and good, except that these recycling yards were only allotted six months to make all those cars go away. Not surprisingly, that's not ... Read more →

Feds punt on E15 waiver decision, want to test ethanol's effect on more cars Sebastian Blanco

There is some ethanol in almost all of the gasoline sold in the U.S. Usually, this amount is no more than 10 percent of the total and, if it's more than that, it jumps all the way to 85 percent and is ...

Live Video: Plug-in ready panel discussion from Los Angeles 6:30pm PST Sam Abuelsamid

At 6:30 pm PST (9:30 pm EST) this evening General Motors is hosting a panel discussion on the importance of consumer incentives in order to stimulate demand for plug-in vehicles. Andrew L. ...

Utrecht to start parking meter revolution with cell phones, GPS and green credentials Xavier Navarro

While paying for your parking meter using a cell phone is not a new thing, the Dutch city of Utrecht has announced a program that goes a step beyond. From April 1st 2010, citizens parking their cars ...

Consumer Federation of America pushing CAFE to climb to 45 mpg by 2020 Sebastian Blanco

America's CAFE standards will climb to 35.5 mpg (42 mpg for cars, 26 mpg for light trucks) by 2016, thanks to the Obama Administration declaring not long after taking power how conflicting national ...

REPORT: CARB hid information about scientist in diesel emission rules fight 10 days ago on Autoblog Green

Strict regulations on diesel emissions that the California Air Resources Board approved in December 2008 are coming under renewed fire. At the time, members of the trucking industry and others complained that CARB was acting all Chicken Little and exaggerating how bad the diesel emissions were for ...

Honda tops 2009 corporate fuel economy charts, Chrysler trails 11 days ago on Autoblog Green

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently in the process of compiling the the fleet average fuel economy numbers for model year 2009, which recently concluded, and it looks like Honda will be on top yet again. The final numbers are still some months away as the data is collected on ...

UK to spend £30 million on EV Charging points 14 days ago on Autoblog Green

British Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis has announced that the UK will spend £30 million to install plug-in vehicle charging stations. The charge points will be built in at least three and as many as six "electric car cities and regions" across the UK, the forerunners of a national EV ...

Government bailout does not mean EV mandates for GM, Chrysler 15 days ago on Autoblog Green

GM and Chrysler may have gotten government help totaling almost $40 billion, but that money does not come with strings attached demanding that the two companies build electric or high-mpg cars. Government task force head Ron Bloom told Reuters that, "We obviously would be very happy if Chrysler ...

U.S., China announce new Electric Vehicles Initiative 16 days ago on Autoblog Green

You'll be forgiven if all you know about President Obama's recent trip to Asia was that he bowed (ZOMG!) to the Japanese Emperor, but we have to ask you to stop watching so much cable TV news. Things of substance happened during the trip, too, and one of them (hopefully) is a new Electric ...

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