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Racing Green Endurance to tackle Pan-American highway with electric Radical racer [w/VIDEO]

How fast can a battery-powered car travel the entire 16,000+ mile length of the Pan-American highway? We don't really know but it looks like we're going to find out. The Racing Green Endurance team, hailing from Imperial College London, are putting together an all-electric version of the Radical SR8 (now an SR0) to demonstrate to the world the possibilities of this powertrain. What better backdrop for such a spectacle than the world's longest highway? Ok, there is that Zero Emission Race around the world in 80 days that the team was to ... Read more →

Alaska and biodiesel hit the radio airwaves for Earth Day Sebastian Blanco

Whether its being used in jets or up in Alaska, biodiesel's challenges as a cold-weather fuel are being tested. For Earth Day today, the Alaska Public Radio Network is featuring a five-minute piece ...

Biofuels and road taxes, the Alaska edition Sebastian Blanco

In many places around the world, roads are financed at least in part by a tax added to the price of fuel. When we head to the pumps, we pay for a little bit of the road we drive out onto as we leave ...

Arctic Vegwerks: biodiesel in Alaska has a blog Sebastian Blanco

One thing most people know about biodiesel is that the fuel is not ideally suited for colder temperatures. This little hiccup does not (as I've mentioned before) slow down Alaska biodiesel fans. In ...

Alaska resort using hydrogen to fuel appliances and vehicles Sam Abuelsamid

The Chena Hot Springs Resort near Fairbanks Alaska is a prime example of how energy supplies in the future will be vastly more decentralized than they are in the current petroleum monoculture. The ...

Official U.S. plan for offshore drilling expected on Monday 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Some months back, we ran a posting which indicated that the area near Bristol Bay, Alaska may be open for offshore drilling for oil in the near future, and that there were certain groups who were opposed to the plan. Well, if this story interests you, keep your ears open on Monday, because that is ...

Reducing our dependence on foreign oil... by starting to drill more in Alaska 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Bristol Bay in Alaska has been free of oil drilling due to a ban on it by the U.S. government since 1990. That is soon to change, however, as both the Senate and President Bush have lifted the bans. The lifting of the bans was urged by Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. Environmentalists, ...

Electrabishi scores electric-car points in Alaska 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Mike Willmon needed a loan to buy the truck, batteries and motor, but he built an electric truck that is a big hit in Anchorage. The conversion took 320 hours and cost $12,000, including the vehicle. He used to spend $120 a month in gas, now his electric bill is about $20 a month higher. Willmon's ...

Panamericana 2006 update: World records broken using biodiesel 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Well, the Panamericana 2006 team has made it to the very southern tip of South America. And it took them just 15 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes to get there from the edge of the Artic Sea in Alaska. Not bad, not bad at all. I'm still not certain which records were broken on this trip, but the team's ...

Panamericana 2006 gets on the road 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Apparently, the biodiesel-powered trip from Alaska to the southern tip of South America did start on time last week (see previous posts here and here). The first few daily diary posts are up on the Panamericana 2006 website. Here's a real brief rundown: May 4 – Sometime after 10 p.m., the ...

Panamericana 2006: three biodiesel SUVs from Alaska to the southern tip of South America in 15 days 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

A tiny mention in a local Alaska newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, points out that a German team of nine drivers will drive three Volkswagen's from Fairbanks, Alaska to the bottom of South America – a distance of 25,000 kilometers/15,500 miles - in just over two weeks. The drivers ...


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