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WorldFirst Formula 3 Racing Car Is Fueled By Choco And Wine …
September 8, 2009 – 10:18 pm | No Comment

There have been many eco friendly cars designed and conceptualized over the years but this car that makes its track debut next month may just be the.

Poll: Most Americans won’t buy PHEVs
September 8, 2009 – 9:26 pm | No Comment
Poll: Most Americans won’t buy PHEVs

A Prius before plug-in conversion Just build plug-in hybrids and they will come? Not so according to another poll . Survey data by Pike Research finds that only 48 percent of Americans are willing to consider a plug-in hybrid vehicle that can achieve 40 miles of pure electric range. However, 83 percent of those interested in buying such a plug-n hybrid would only be willing to buy a plug-in hybrid if it…

Honda hybrid minivan by 2011
September 8, 2009 – 9:11 pm | No Comment
Honda hybrid minivan by 2011

The Freed minivan OK, by American standards, the Honda Freed Minivan isn’t really a minivan, but maybe American standards are in need of changing. Anyway, Honda is now committed to offering the Freed, built on the same platform as the Fit, in a hybrid version around 2011 according to reports , with an EV version to

Tax payer recovery "dim" on automaker bailout?
September 8, 2009 – 7:51 pm | No Comment
Tax payer recovery "dim" on automaker bailout?

Still less than outright bankruptcy? A Congressional Oversight Panel, according to early reports , is expected to offer “detailed analysis on the dim prospects of taxpayers recovering all of their investment into the US auto industry”. While not surprising, it is impossible not to ask, ‘how much would tax payers have lost if GM and Chrysler went into bankruptcy?’ Regardless, I think a better question might …

Saudi Arabia to America: Get real about oil
September 8, 2009 – 4:33 pm | No Comment
Saudi Arabia to America: Get real about oil

Do we need them far more than we care to admit? Last week a Saudi Arabian oil minister claimed that American energy independence is “a concept that is unrealistic, misguided and ultimately harmful to energy-producing and – consuming countries alike.” Moreover, interdependence between Saudi Arabia and the US will last for decades. …

Hybrid Motoring | Go Go Green Cars
September 8, 2009 – 2:50 pm | No Comment

Categories. Bio-Diesel Cars · Eco-Friendly Cars · Electric Cars · Gas Friendly Cars · Green Cars · Kansas Hybrid Cars · Kansas New Cars · Kansas Used Cars · Uncategorized. Recent Posts. Hybrid Motoring · Green Cars Alternative Materials …

Automobiles | The Growth and Development of the Automobile …
September 8, 2009 – 6:58 am | No Comment

Government regulations in most countries require manufacturers to use airbags and other safety restraints in their cars. Also automobile manufacturers now understand the implications of advanced safety devices in cars on the final sales figures. Today. … With the increasing prices of fuel and emissions, along with pollution threatening the existence of human existence, green cars and the greening of cars has become a priority

environmentalissuespalompon: Small Leyte town assembles bamboo car
September 8, 2009 – 1:15 am | No Comment

Three car models. They finally settled on a two-cylinder engine that runs on coconut-based biofuel with the body made of indigenous material. Their efforts resulted in three prototypes of the eco-friendly cars assembled under the Tabontabon … The Eco 1 model car , designed by Balderian, is made of indigenous materials, except for the engine, tires, chassis and flooring. It can seat 20 people, including driver, and can run on one gallon of …

Green Formula 3 Racing Car Set To Debut ~ Losers Come Second
September 7, 2009 – 8:19 pm | No Comment

It is an interesting experiment, and one that gets the thumbs up from us although we are not happy that the car runs on biodiesel made from a mixture of chocolate waste and alcohol distilled from leftover wine. Chocolate and wine are two of the finest things known to mankind, and as such completely wasted on running a car…

Biofuel Niches | Eco Friendly Mag
September 7, 2009 – 4:14 pm | No Comment

In terms of rail cars , this is over 1 per hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in and out of the plant to dump the biomass. And bear in mind that this is really a gasification to ethanol plant, with higher forecast yields than a …

Hydrogen Technology Takes a Leap Ahead
September 7, 2009 – 1:00 pm | No Comment

… are engaged in making an energy sustained, eco-friendly hydrogen generating order. Hydrogen is permitted by this system for being extracted from useless particles, such as vegetable oil and the glycerol consequence of bio-diesel . …

Dead Sea evaporating faster each year rather than decreasing
September 7, 2009 – 11:21 am | No Comment

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON – A catalyst made out of shrimp shells may churn out faster, cheaper and greener biodiesel , according to a new study. Xinsheng Zheng and colleagues, who led the study in China, described the development of a new …. about going to the fabric district, Museum of Jurassic Technology, and Cal Science Center today; complexdays History of Indian science and technology; …