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Honda attacks another part of life-cycle emissions with new rail car

While the fuel efficiency of new vehicles is clearly an important issue today, it's certainly not the only area where emissions and fuel consumption can be reduced. Carmakers are scrambling to reduce all their energy use to save money. The latest effort from Honda is the new Auto-Max rail car. Honda worked with Greenbrier companies to develop the Auto-Max and has now deployed 400 of them. Honda is shipping 82 percent of its vehicles by rail and the new rail cars can hold up to 22 vehicles compared to 10 for conventional rail cars. The rail ... Read more →

Harvard professor predicts railroads will return to prominence in the U.S. Xavier Navarro

John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Graduate School of Design, predicts that trains will once again play a key role in shaping American ...

Videos: The amazing story of the High Line Lascelles Linton

This is a great story. A raised train track in the middle of New York City was abandoned. Unused since the 1980s, this train track actually began to grow wild grasses. So much wild grass grew on the ...

Honda attacks another part of life-cycle emissions with new rail car 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While the fuel efficiency of new vehicles is clearly an important issue today, it's certainly not the only area where emissions and fuel consumption can be reduced. Carmakers are scrambling to reduce all their energy use to save money. The latest effort from Honda is the new Auto-Max rail car. ...

Harvard professor predicts railroads will return to prominence in the U.S. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Graduate School of Design, predicts that trains will once again play a key role in shaping American life. Based on an analysis of real estate investment patterns along railroad corridors, Stilgoe ...

Videos: The amazing story of the High Line 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This is a great story. A raised train track in the middle of New York City was abandoned. Unused since the 1980s, this train track actually began to grow wild grasses. So much wild grass grew on the track that you could mistake it for the countryside and not a space in the middle of a city. A group ...


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