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Prodrive joins Disenco Energy to bring “micro combined heat and power
2007-04-23 15:56:00 Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in In case you were wondering, yes, you did read that headline right. Britain’s Prodrive, designer of some of the coolest vehicles across the pond, is working on a new type of home heater, which also collects some power for the home which can also be sold back to the grid. Why? According ... More About: Power , Energy , Join , Heat , Ring
GM kills Silverado and Sierra hybrid pickups
2007-04-23 15:21:00 Even as gasoline prices are going up, GM has decided to kill the slow selling Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid and GMC Sierra hybrid pickups. According to GM, the total production run of both trucks was about 3,000 and there are still a few unsold models of both trucks in dealer inventory. Neither truck received much attention or promotion ... More About: Vera , Pick
Biofuels threaten cheap beer in Germany
2007-04-23 15:02:00 Filed under: Biodiesel, Etc., Ethanol, Green Culture, Manufacturing/Plants, Legislation and Policy First, tortillas in Mexico, now beer in Germany will cost more as crop yields shift toward biofuel production. Brewers say they have no choice but to pass along the higher costs of barley, which has nearly doubled in price in a year. There was a ... More About: Beer , Cheap , Erma , Biofuels
Editorial: More on BMW, ethanol, hydrogen and hybrids
2007-04-23 14:12:00 Filed under: Diesel, Ethanol , Hybrid, Hydrogen , BMW, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, SAE World Congress Earlier Jeremy wrote a post referencing a Detroit News article about a panel discussion on Policies and Issues Affecting Consumer Choices of Vehicles and Fuels at the SAE World Congress in Detroit. I attended that discussion along with several others and wanted to share ... More About: Hybrids , Editorial , Edit
Review: Ford Escape XLT 4WD
2007-04-23 14:02:00 In an era where Explorers are MIA and Expeditions can't make it out of base camp, Ford 's cute ute is a mission-critical machine. If Ford's going to Escape its financial woes, their mid-sized SUV has to at least keep the lights on. To find out if the new Ford Escape is "the end to boredom" ... More About: Review , View , Cape
Shanghai Motor Show: Green car wrap up from TreeHugger
2007-04-23 11:03:00 Filed under: Diesel, Ethanol, EV/Plug-in, Flex-Fuel, Hybrid, Hydrogen, Natural Gas Unfortunately ABG didn’t have anyone on site in Shanghai this week for the Motor Show , but Tree Hugger has a nice summary of the cars that would be of interest to readers of this site. We already covered the fuel cell version of E-Flex that GM showed ... More About: Green
Brand Spankin’ New Images: Maserati GS Zagato
2007-04-23 09:21:00 Last week when Zagato announced the Mase rati GS Zagato, we were highly disappointed of the three black and white images they released with the press release (not to mention there were no shots of the front of the car). Well now Zagato has released brand spankin’ new color images of the Maserati GS Zagato. Enjoy ... More About: Images , Image , Brand
Diesel and Gas Hybrids Coming to China, and Then?
2007-04-23 01:32:00 China is the new Korea, which never quite lived up to be the new Japan, as far as auto producing nations go. China’s slow move towards private wealth is making cars available to more citizens. Thankfully for those of us who rely on air to breathe (or are concerned about CO2 emissions), hybrids will be ... More About: China , Hybrids , Diesel , Ming , Dies
The top ten stories from the first year of AutoblogGreen - Numbers 5 throug
2007-04-22 23:31:00 Filed under: Etc., Chevrolet, GM, Tesla Motors, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Zap click the image for the APX gallery Without further ado, here are the top five stories from AutoblogGreen during our first year or operation (stories #6 through #10 are listed here.) 5.) No Tesla CUV, But Zap! will build the Lotus APX with batteriesAn all-electric SUV (or ... More About: Stories , Top Ten , Numb , Tories , Numbers
What I found on Earth Day
2007-04-22 22:41:00 Filed under: EV/Plug-in Click image to enlarge While I was out celebrating Earth Day by driving our Audi S8 tester (hey, I primarily write for “regular” Autoblog, remember), I stumbled across a really interesting find at one of the locations I stopped at to photograph the muscle sedan. Captain’s Cove Seaport in Bridgeport, CT is a harborside ... More About: Earth Day
The top ten stories from the first year of AutoblogGreen - Numbers 10 throu
2007-04-22 21:22:00 Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, BMW, SMART, Toyota, AutoblogGreen Exclusive How fitting, our #6 story for the year has a “6″ in the image. As noted, today marks the one-year anniversary of AutoblogGreen. Sounds like a good time to look back and see what caught the eyes of our readers. Based on the number of page views, these ... More About: Stories , Top Ten , Numb , Tories , Numbers
Need something to do on Earth Day? Check with the Earth Day Network.
2007-04-22 19:47:00 In case you haven’t noticed yet, we are focusing our blogging today on Earth Day. That would be today, if you weren’t aware. Anyway, did you know that Earth Day has it’s very own dedicated network? If not, you should definitely check it out. There is a message board, ideas on what to do for ... More About: Network , Methi , Check
This Week in Photos: 04-16-2007 - 04-20-2007
2007-04-22 19:37:00 Another week of hot pictures is in the books. Check out these images we posted throughout the week of 04-16-2007 to 04-20-2007. Take a look at the pictures of the top 10 sexiest cars, new images of the Audi A5 and S5, Novitec’s Ferrari F430 Evoluzione, Audi’s new Cross Coupe concept and BMW’s hot CS ... More About: Photos , This , Week
Earth Day = Birthday. AutoblogGreen is one year old today
2007-04-22 18:13:00 Filed under: Etc., AutoblogGreen Exclusive Wow, sometimes time just flies by, doesn’t it. A year ago, when I wrote the first post* on AutoblogGreen I had no idea where this work would take me and the rest of the bloggers and, of course, our readers. In a little while, I’m going to put up a list ... More About: Earth , Earth Day , Today , Birthday , Birth
Sure, it?s Earth Day, but what else do you know about April 22?
2007-04-22 16:35:00 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture Here’s a list of dozens of things that happened on April 22 in past year that (mostly) bear no relation to Earth Day. It was the 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet in 1145, for example, and the Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began in 1954. Wikipedia’s list of April 22nd ... More About: Earth Day , About , Know
Earth Day: Some interesting facts to consider regarding the earth
2007-04-22 14:51:00 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture earth -noun (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 mi. (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 mi. (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million mi. (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 ... More About: Interesting , Facts , Earth , April , Earth Day
Going to work after Earth Day - leave home without it
2007-04-22 13:16:00 Filed under: Transportation Alternatives, AutoblogGreen Exclusive The Capital Area Transportation Authority here in Lansing, MI recently sent out a brochure in time for Earth Day suggesting people try to commute to work for one day without using their car. Leaving home without it, as it were. The brochure doesn’t ask people to drop the car on ... More About: Earth Day , Home , Work , Leave
Happy Earth Day! Now go outside and enjoy the planet
2007-04-22 11:39:00 Filed under: Etc. Hopefully the weather wherever you are on Earth Day is as pleasant as it is in Southeast Michigan this weekend. We finally seem to have gotten past our lingering cold weather and are now fully into spring. So if you can take advantage of the weather, and get out of the house. Do ... More About: Planet , Earth Day , Enjoy , Happy
Watch the cloud of black smog fill the ? balloon?
2007-04-21 22:46:00 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Carbon Capture This is a pretty compelling picture as far as I am concerned. According to this site, which is where I got the information I’m relaying to you from, says that this balloon, which is attached to the tailpipe of a car in China, is filled with the exhaust from ... More About: Watch , Emissions , Black , Greenhouse , Twenty
95% of end-of-life vehicles in America are recycled, USCAR shooting for 100
2007-04-21 20:56:00 Filed under: Etc., DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM Here’s some automobile-in-the-environment numbers from USCAR, the United States Council for Automotive Research: Percentage of vehicles in the U.S. that “go through a market-driven recycling infrastructure” at the end-of-life (ELV) : over 95 How much of each of these vehicles, by weight, that is recycled : 84 percent Compliance goal for ELV ... More About: America , Life , Recycling , Vehicles , Vehicle
BMW?s Christoph Huss says hydrogen is still the long-term answer
2007-04-21 19:31:00 Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Hydrogen , BMW When Margo Oge, director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, mentioned that ethanol production is way past the governments mandates, this article says that Cristoph Huss, BMW senior vice president for science and traffic policy, shook his head. He suggests that BMW still sees hydrogen as the ... More About: Answer , Fuel , Bmw , Christ
Travelers want to be able to rent hybrids
2007-04-21 17:36:00 Filed under: Hybrid Priceline.com, the website that helps their customers find cut-rate travel deals for air-fare, hotels, and rental cars recently surveyed their customers for Earth Day. Seventy-two percent of respondents indicated that they wanted to be able to rent hybrid vehicles when they travel, forty-eight percent said they would be willing to pay more to ... More About: Hybrids , Rave , Want , Rent
Electric Mini Cooper in 2008
2007-04-21 17:02:00 Hybrid Technologies is developing an all-electric Mini Coop er that will be available next year. Frank Ziegler, Hybrid Technologies’ Director of Sales and Distribution told me the car will sell for $59,000. That’s more than $40,000 over the list price of a gasoline Mini, but an average drive would save about $1250 a year on gasoline, ... More About: Electric , 2008
Honda files a patent for a new two-wheeler, the Griffon
2007-04-21 16:01:00 Filed under: Transportation Alternatives, Honda It looks like there may be a new scooter coming to market from Honda. We don’t bring you news of every single scooter that may be coming soon to a dealer near you, though. This isn’t just any scooter, though. This is the Honda Griffon concept that was shown at the ... More About: Motorcycle , Files , Wheel
Eco-ethicist lashes out at pork-based biofuels
2007-04-21 14:35:00 Filed under: Biodiesel, Etc., Green Culture, Manufacturing/Plants We had the story yesterday about ConocoPhillips and Tyson teaming up to produce biodiesel in Europe from leftover pig fat. Undoubtedly animal rights activists would be upset, and we raised the possibility of religious implications. From a purely academic angle, however, is using animal waste unethical for producing fuel? Eco-ethicist ... More About: Pork , Biofuels , Lash , Lashes , Base
Bloomberg to announce $8 congestion fee for cars entering NYC
2007-04-21 13:08:00 Filed under: Legislation and Policy During a speech he’s scheduled to give tomorrow that will outline his remaining time in office, New York’s mayor, Mike Bloomberg , will announce plans to charge cars entering Manhattan below 86th street an $8 congestion fee, similar to the controversial charge enacted by London’s mayor, Ken Livingstone. The charge will include ... More About: Cars , Congestion , Ring , Enter
Auto-Biography 13: Wildcat!
2007-04-21 13:00:00 They were both gorgeous, in that all-American wholesome, sexy, energetic way. Voluptuous, but athletic. Heartland traditional, but ready for a good time. Exhilarating and accelerative. And they were both mine to do with as I pleased. So why was I, a healthy young man, having a problem? I met Julie at a dance club in Iowa ... More About: Biography , Editorials , Auto , Auto-biography , Wild
Bauer?s Limo service offers green corporate transport nationwide
2007-04-21 11:37:00 Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Hybrid, Transport ation Alternatives, Natural Gas Gary Bauer started his San Francisco based limousine service in the late eighties while he was still in college. Since then the company has grown nationwide offering limo services and corporate transportation services. The latter involves providing shuttle services to companies so that employees don’t have to ... More About: Services , Service , Transportation , Corporate
Guzzlers Prompt Driving Less But Using More Oil
2007-04-21 02:01:00 Drivers may be spending less time on the road, but even more time refueling. Last week the U.S. consumed more gasoline than in any week in April in history — 9.472 million barrels a day. But in some states such as here in Oregon, the average number of miles driven is going down, while ... More About: Driving , Prom , Sing , More , Less
This Isn?t Your Father?s Buick
More articles from this author:2007-04-21 00:27:00 GM said today its Buick Riviera concept that it unveiled this week at the Auto Shanghai car show blends in elements of the 1938 Y-Job Concept, the 1960s Le Sabre, and Electra 225 and the Riviera coupes of the 1960s and 1970s. (The ‘76 Le Sabre I once owned sure didn’t look anyting like this). ... More About: Concept Cars , Your , This , Father 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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