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Modified PHEV Prius setting out on 1,100-mile, one-tank drive - but why?

File this one under slightly sketchy (AFS Trinity style). A Florida Toyota dealer is taking a Prius on what he calls an "epic" 1,100-mile trip to Washington, D.C. and he wants to do it on only one tank of gas. Since the tank of the Prius is 11.9 gallons, that'd be quite a mileage feat. 92.4 mpg to be exact. The dealer, Earl Stewart, knows a thing or two about getting the most mileage out of a Prius, and is organizing the drive to demonstrate "that hybrid electric cars are well suited to drivers who daily commute less than 40 miles, ... Read more →

Planar Energy Devices plans to recycle battery factory Domenick Yoney

It goes without saying that we're down with battery recycling, but what about battery factory recycling? Sounds like a pretty good idea to us and, more importantly, it sounds like a good idea to ...

St. Petersburg to test 'plug-in' hybrid cars in green partnership Sam Abuelsamid

The city of St. Petersburg, Florida isn't part of Ford's plug-in hybrid test program but it will soon be testing a PHEV Escape anyway. Progress Energy will be partnering with the Florida city to ...

Florida DIY: If you can't buy one, build your own electric car Xavier Navarro

When the market doesn't offer what you want, maybe it's time to make it yourself. At least that's what Cornelius Cronin in Oldsmar, Fla., thought when he bought an old Chevy S10 for $900 and replaced ...

Palm Bay Police Chief bans patrol cars from idling Jeremy Korzeniewski

High fuel prices have surely altered most consumer's driving habits. The gas crunch has gotten bad enough that even police units have found it necessary to change their routines. For instance, in Palm ...

Florida joins California in lawsuit against the EPA over new emissions rules 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When the state of California got turned down by the Environmental Protection Agency in December in their request for a waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, they wasted no time in suing the feds. California wants to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide from vehicles and by extension fuel ...

Tampa Bay to get largest biodiesel plant in the US 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In the next two weeks a closed orange juice factory will come back to life with a new product. Instead of OJ, Agri-Source fuels will start churning out biodiesel. The plant will begin processing chicken fat and palm and cottonseed oil into fuel at the rate of 125 million gallons a year. The chicken ...

Xethanol Juices Ethanol From Orange Peel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Xethanol Corporation and Renewable Spirits, LLC have teamed up to build a citrus peel based pilot ethanol production facility in Florida. The pilot plant should be able to produce up to 50,000 gallons / 190,000 litres of ethanol in the upcoming citrus harvesting season alone, later expanding to ...

U.S. joins Interamerican Ethanol Commission but discourages imports 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

U.S. Congress has voted to protect the domestic ethanol industry and extend the secondary tariff of 54 cents per gallon on imported ethanol. The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) praised the move saying that secondary tariff, which is now in place until January 1, 2009, will ensure continued ...

Excuse me, were you going to hang that here? Homeowner associations won't allow energy conservation 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you want to live green, your homeowner association may get in your way. Columnist Alex Beam of the International Herald Tribune learned that clothes dryers account for as much as 10 percent of home energy use. He seriously considered drying his clothes outside on a clothes line or rack. One Web ...

Ethanol - "One of those light bulb deals" 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, has seen the light and it comes in the form of a biofuel. The St. Petersburg Times reports that after reading a paper written by Mario Fernandez, a former sugar trader from Key Biscayne, Gov. Bush has seemingly become one of the nation's foremost advocates of ethanol. ...

Oakland Park looks to hybrids to replace old vehicles 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The city of Oakland Park recently selected the Ford Escape hybrid as the replacement for one of its 11 city vehicles. The Community Development Department will be using the eco-friendly compact SUV which replaces a 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier. Oakland Park is one of the latest Floridian cities and ...

Governor Bush advocates abolishment on ethanol tariffs 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Florida Governor Jeb Bush, after meeting with Brazilian Minister of Agriculture Roberto Rodrigues, wants the federal government to reconsider its stance on foreign ethanol and abolish all tariffs on the alternative fuel. States Bush, "We don't put a tariff on crude imported from a country like ...

"Huge" potential for alternative fuels in Florida 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Think Florida and you think orange juice, right? Well, in the processing of orange juice there is a lot of leftover peel and pulp. These materials are just one of the many sources of biomass for alternative fuels like ethanol available to Florida, according to this article in the Lakeland-area ...


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