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Fuel efficient technologies, vehicles losing out to financial crisis at GM {Autoblog Green}

Dec 14th 2008 4:30PM A few years back the reason GM gave for not investing in hybrid technologies is that they were going to skip right over that stage and invest all their resources in hydrogen fuel cells.

When GM stopped leasing the EV-1 and started the HUMMER brand (1998) we were promised that the hydrogen highway is only 15 years away. So I'm guessing that GM fuel cell cars will begin hitting dealer lots in 2013, right?

Hey GM, where's my hydrogen fuel cell car? GREENWASH.

Celebrities starting to show up Mercedes BlueTec diesels {Autoblog Green}

Dec 8th 2008 11:55PM Good eye, Finley85! That pic has to have been taken at least three months ago.

It looks like these pictures were taken at an ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company, owned by BP) and a Shell station. That means they're pumping the ULSD, which is good to see, but it would have been nicer had they been pumping B100 at Conserv Fuel (http://www.conservfuel.com/). Since these pics were obviously staged by Mercedes-Benz, I don't think that Mercedes has certified their vehicles to run on B100 though... :-(

Celebrities starting to show up Mercedes BlueTec diesels {Autoblog Green}

Dec 6th 2008 10:08PM Note that the two license plates you can actually see look suspiciously like "manufacturer" or "dealer" plates, not typical plates. I wonder if Mercedes is providing these Bluetec vehicles to celebrities free of charge so they can arrange to have pictures taken of the stars in Mercedes cars for PR purposes. Sort of like how BMW was loaning-out their hydrogen 7-series cars to celebrities and then using the PR. Something smells fishy to me. Why did the papparazzi just happen to be at a filling station to snap these pics of the celebrities?

Glendale, CA and Clean Energy to build new CNG filling station {Autoblog Green}

Dec 5th 2008 1:13AM The Bob Hope Airport was formerly known as the Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport and is physically located in the City of Burbank (though admittedly is still administered by all three cities and you'll see police from all three cities' forces there). I'm a bit sensitive about this as Burbank's my home town. You know Burbank: home to the HQ of the Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, and NBC's west coast facility where The Tonight Show and Ellen are filmed (amongst other shows). Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was brought to you from "beautiful Downtown Burbank".

So stuff it, Glendale!

Saab 9-4X possibly another victim of GM cash crunch {Autoblog Green}

Nov 4th 2008 11:56PM TrollhattanSaab.net has been quoting inside sources for quite some time now that the production version, at least in the U.S., will only be available with a (very non-Saaby) normally-aspirated non-flex-fuel-capable 3-liter V6. The upscale "Aero" variant will come with a 2.8-liter (non-flex-fuel-capable) turbocharged V6.

The Saab 9-4X concept appeared first at the North American International Auto Show (Detroit) in January 2008 and was announced to go into production in "18 months", which would have been June 2009. Then it was delayed until Fall 2009 (as a MY2010) and now it's being reported it's possibly delayed another year (meaning Fall 2010 as a MY2011).

To show the preferential treatment GM darling Cadillac gets over Saab, they're yet to even debut the concept for the SRX, but it's going to go into production before the 9-4X.

GM: set Saab free!

Don't forget the other alcohol: Cobalt Biofuels raises $25M for biobutanol production {Autoblog Green}

Oct 28th 2008 10:20PM I thought this sounded very familiar (I'm a butanol proponent so I took notice). This was already reported by ABG eight days ago:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/10/21/cobalt-biofuels-gets-25-million-for-biobutanol/

Cheap gas means free Codeweaver software for Mac and Linux users today {Autoblog Green}

Oct 28th 2008 1:13PM I was worried about this: when I try to run the software I get a "...not supported on this architecture" message. I bought my Mac Mini a couple of months before the announcement of the move from IBM PowerPC chips to the Intel processor. So if you have a PowerPC-based Mac don't bother downloading this software...

TX CHL Instructor: the server is back up in a text-only version. There's an apology on there that due to the demand from Digg readers there's exceptionally high volume. Try it again.

Mike Z: this is remotely on-topic. The reason for the download is that the price of gasoline dropped to the price it was in July 2007.

Thanks to ABG for pointing this out. I would have never caught wind of this otherwise.

GM to save electricity by shutting off lights, escalators {Autoblog Green}

Oct 28th 2008 12:07PM They're also shutting-off voice mail! But I don't know if that's to save money or not. In fact, I don't get the motivation behind that one at all.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/gm-voicemail-cuts-explained/

Regarding the escalators and lights being shut-off after-hours, what took them so long? I mean, these are simple conservation techniques that shouldn't require a company to be in financial distress to implement. Think how much money GM will save in energy costs. That was money being wasted previously.

Interior Dept opens 190 million acres for geothermal power development {Autoblog Green}

Oct 27th 2008 12:13PM Am I the biggest geek here and the only one who noticed that 12,100 megawatts is equal to 12.1 gigawatts, which is one decimal place removed from the "1.21 jiggawatts" (which I'm assuming probably read "gigawatts" in the script but Christopher Lloyd didn't know how to pronounce it) required to send a DeLorean through time? ;-)

They're going Back... To the FUTURE!!!!

Join T. Boone Pickens for an "online rally" over the energy plan tonight {Autoblog Green}

Oct 8th 2008 12:50PM This man just seems fishy to me. To think that an oil man at age 80 just wants to turn into a philanthropist would be a stretch. There's extremes to everything, but I think he's trying to help others while also lining his own pockets. It's a win-win right?

I suggest you all watch that YouTube video the first commenter here posted above.

As a Californian I'm very suspicious of Pickins's ballot initiative 10 on next month's ballot. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickins#Attempt_to_sell_natural_gas_with_a_California_Ballot_Initiative) if it passes Pickins' own natural gas company will be the sole beneficiary. Know where natural gas often comes from? It's a by-product of drilling for oil and is a non-renewable fossil fuel. I just wonder how he got The Sierra Club to sign-on to his "Pickins Plan".

The official position of the California Green, Libertarian, and Republican parties is to vote NO on Prop 10, whereas the California Democrat party declares they're "neutral" on it.


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