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More information on V Vehicle Co.'s Louisiana plant endeavor, high-mpg cars

There was big news out of Louisiana yesterday when new automaker V-Vehicle Co. came out of stealth mode with its announcement that it would start building high-mileage, environmentally friendly vehicles in an idled GM plant. In the hours since, we've found a bit more information about VVC and what the company needs to bring new vehicles to the American auto market. The company was formed in 2006 and has received financial investments from T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore as well as Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, the venture capital ... Read more →

Al Gore plan to solve economic, energy and warming crises would boost electric car Domenick Yoney

As most Americans are aware, we are in the midst of several crises. Luckily, this country has people with, not only ideas, but also some clout to help see their ideas come to fruition. One of those ...

SEAT supports climate change meeting - and Al Gore Sebastian Blanco

Last week, Al Gore was being chauffeured around the Netherlands by Audi. This week, another company (or, more accurately, another part of the same company) is trying to tie itself to the former ...

Al Gore being chauffeured in Holland in GTL fueled Audi A6 2.0 TDIe Sam Abuelsamid

Former Veep Al Gore is in the Netherlands this week to give his Inconvenient Truth presentation a couple of times. While he's in the low-lands he is apparently being shuttled around in the latest ...

Manny Lopez imagines what green-minded Politicians used to drive Jeremy Korzeniewski

Not everyone who currently cares about the environment has done so for their whole lives. Who cares? Everyone grows up, though that term means more to some people than to others. For our part, we ...

Al Gore calls for electric cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Halfway through Al Gore's challenge today calling for a 100% renewable electric grid within ten years is a call for plug-in electric cars. This represents a big change in his thinking, and will hopefully quickly push political and environmental leadership to coalesce around policies to push plug-in ...

VIDEO: Raining elephants? The sky is falling! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A contest was recently held by The Alliance for Climate Protection and Current TV to create "eco-spots" that encourage people to take action to help solve the climate crises. Dave Schlafman was the grand prize winner with this somewhat humorous entry. It was featured in Al Gore's TED conference ...

VIDEO: Al Gore gives a new slide show. Now with increased optimism! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Al Gore had the opportunity to address the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference again and he gave them a slide show which was recorded that we can now bring to you. This one differed from "An Inconvenient Truth" somewhat. Sure, there were images showing the awesome amount of changes ...

Al Gore drives hybrid Taxi in Futurama movie 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore voices himself as a hybrid cab driver in 2012 Long Island in the new animated movie Futurama: Bender's Big Score. In the movie, Al is happy to get a ride from a killer, time-traveling robot that offers him $100 to run over someone. Al crashes his Hybraxi Taxi Co cab ...

Clean diesel, regional, cellulosic ethanol stocks (CDTI, STKL, PEIX) 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above is an interview done in May with Walter Copan, chief technology officer of Clean Diesel Technologies (ticker: CDTI), by thestreet.com. Autobloggreen is not a stock tip or investing website but we wanted to show you what the stock market thinks about green, automotive companies. In ...

Video: GE not making car that runs on garbage (Al Gore on 30 Rock) 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Al Gore made a guest appearance on the TV show "30 Rock" as part of NBC's Green Week. The story in the episode included Gore being told GE is making a "trash-powered car" and Alec Baldwin telling David Schwimmer to either get on board or he will wake up on that island with Phil Donahue and the ...

Al Gore's Inconvenient Proposal - "Moving Beyond Kyoto" - and editorial 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Just yesterday, July 1st, Al Gore authored an opinion editorial which was published in the New York Times. I have copied a few choice portions from the editorial, and will have a few comments after the break, if you care to read them. All of the following are quotes attributed to Gore from his ...

Is Gore waging an "all-out assault on all forms of fossil fuels" and will it hurt our economy? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I'm sure that by now, all of us are familiar with Al Gore and his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth". You probably also know that automakers, scientists and politicians are busy in Washington making decisions on what steps, if any, to take to combat global warming and the greenhouse gases that are ...

Congress hopes to come to a compromise on Bush's fuel economy goals 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Perhaps President Bush knew what was coming when he decided to check out the Phoenix SUT and a plug-in Toyota Prius last week. According to the the Detroit News, Congress is meeting to discuss Bush's proposed fuel economy changes. To recap, the changes basically call for "reducing gasoline ...

Richard Branson's quest to fund the extraction of greenhouse gases 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

"We have only our own ingenuity and we have no hope of a meaningful solution unless we find a way to work together. Necessity is the mother of invention." - Richard Branson Virgin Empire giant Richard Branson is willing to put his money where his mouth is. Citing the Ansari X Prize as partial ...

Ecolimo biodiesel/hybrid limo service gives green rides, but does it cancel out Hummers? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I saw the Ecolimo booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car expo last month, but didn't take the time to share information on chauffeur service, which uses biodiesel and hybrid vehicles to ferry celebs we're all heard of – Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore – around L.A. My apologies. ...

Oprah welcomes 'An Inconvenient Truth' but will she cut back on her energy use? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There was a segment on Monday's Oprah show with former Vice President Al Gore shopping at Lowes for energy-efficient products. He pointed to low-power light bulbs and water-heater wraps, noting that while only small amounts of CO2 emissions are reduced with each application, if everyone used them ...

An Inconvenient Truth movie trailer 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In case you just happened by AutoblogGreen, but don’t really know much about green automobile technology and are curious about why people are so concerned about making their cars run cleaner, here’s a movie trailer worth watching. The film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, appears to ...


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