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Electric Avenue display comes to 2010 Detroit Auto Show
While some of the automakers that skipped the 2009 Detroit Auto Show are apparently returning for 2010, there still won't be enough to fill up the basement. As a result, the EcoXperience exhibit will be back again for a second year. The landscaped track on the lower level of Cobo Hall will provide attendees the opportunity to try out a variety of electric drive vehicles.The last show featured the likes of the Mitsubishi iMiEv, Ford Escape PHEV, and GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox. Perhaps this year, Ford and Nissan will add the Focus and ... Read more →
Automotive Engineer commissions Lotus to design tiny city EV [w/VIDEO] Sam Abuelsamid
Developing cars quickly is nothing new to the designers and engineers at Lotus in England. They do contract development for automakers around the world all the time. With that in mind – and ...
Will nuclear-produced electricity be low carbon? Domenick Yoney
Faced with the problems of oil supply and environmental factors, it seems quite certain that many of our transportation options in the future with be powered by electricity. Methods of supplying the ...
Dragon Power Station makes electricity from traffic Domenick Yoney
There seems no end to the different ways one can generate pollution-free electricity but we try to cover them all. From the not-so-ready-for-prime-time free-energy devices and solar paint to the most ...
Minnesota passes legislation to generate 25 percent renewable energy by 2020 Dane Muldoon
The Minnesota Senate has passed their state's Renewable Energy Standard requiring Minnesota utilities to generate a minimum 25 percent of their electricity renewably by 2025. Xcel Energy is to jump ...
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- REPORT: Tesla Motors planning IPO "soon" Aptera Update: Backstory uglier than we knew? BMW prices the ActiveHybrid X6 starting at $89,725 REPORT: Think will build U.S. plant in Indiana, appoints two new execs Officially Official: Aptera production pushed back to 2010 First 25 production i-MiEVs roll into the UK Ford Fusion wins Motor Trend Car of the Year award Aptera update: Vacation instead of ousters? Electrification Coalition sees plug-ins making up 25 percent of market by 2020 Renault Fluence EV to be assembled in Turkey
A call to URGE - Use Renewably Generated Electricity, Efficiently 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
In a lengthy, two-part editorial, David Roberts, a staff writer at Grist, presents his position on unifying the green lobby around the flag of URGE2: Use Renewably Generated Electricity, Efficiently. He is expecting bumper stickers and t-shirts - here's why. Mine negawatts: The cheapest source of ...
Portugal wants 45% renewable electricity output and 10% of all fuels to be biofuels 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Here is some shocking news: The Government plans to make nearly half of the electricity consumed using wind, wave and solar power! Oh wait... that's the government of Portugal. Well, still, it is great news. The old goal was 39 percent in 3 years, it was recently upped to 45 percent by Prime ...
Ethanol to electricity for AlgoDyne, or is it? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
AlgoDyne Ethanol Energy Inc., which has developed advanced fuel cell technology, announced recently that they are negotiating partnerships in the field of Direct-Alcohol-Fuel-Cells (DAFC) to provide their cutting-edge systems. AlgoDyne has undertaken extensive DAFC research to develop technology ...
Does a hydrogen economy make sense? Ulf Bossel says no 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
Does a "hydrogen economy" make sense? Personally, I don't pretend to know enough about every aspect of the technology required to run all of our necessities on hydrogen, but Ulf Bossel, an expert on fuel cells, claims to know just that. His answer: No, a hydrogen based economy does not make sense. ...
U.S. electric grid has capacity for a lot of plug-in hybrids 2 years ago on Autoblog Green
A new study for the Department of Energy has identified massive idle "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity in the existing electric power system. So much so in fact that it could power 84 percent of the 220 million vehicles in the U.S. if they were plug-in electric vehicles. ...
GM buildings save money and emissions by going solar (for free) 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
Treehugger recently wrote about this article in the New York Times spotlighting General Motors for switching to solar power for electricity in some of their buildings. The reason why the General's accountants are so happy is because they're saving money on their electric bill and there wasn't a ...
New affordable solar panel production method 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
Nanosolar, a well funded startup in Palo Alto, CA, announced a production facility for solar cells with sufficient capacity to produce enough solar cells to generate 430 megawatts. This production capacity is about a quarter of the total worldwide solar cell production capacity. The company ...
Biofuel number crunching 3 years ago on Autoblog Green
A roundup of alternative fuels is presented in Popular Mechanics’ May issue, with a summary of what each fuel is, the pro’s and con’s for the fuel, and the future outlook for each one of them. The alternatives for gasoline and diesel under consideration are ...
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