Posts Tagged automobile

Steam-Powered Car Breaks Record in Mojave

Steam-Powered Car Breaks Record in Mojave

Filed Under: Environmental News on August 29, 2009

I read about this in Wired’s Autopia and had to talk about it.  I’ll admit, it’s not really “green” or “enviornme [...]

Cash for Clunkers Gets Another $2 Billion From Energy Loan Guarantee Program

Cash for Clunkers Gets Another $2 Billion From Energy Loan Guarantee Program

Filed Under: Environmental News, Green Politics on August 10, 2009

When the “Cash for Clunkers” program was still just an idea that wasn’t even completely written as legislation, I wrote about it at [...]

Bosch Says Electric Vehicles Won’t Become Pervasive for at Least 20 Years

Filed Under: green automotive technology, zoomilife.com on July 21, 2009

Full electric power trains like battery electrics, hydrogen fuel cells, and so forth are coming, but slowly. Let’s face it: most of those on the mar [...]

Solar Police Cars in Ohio

Filed Under: Environmental News, green automotive technology on June 14, 2009

OK, the title is misleading, I’ll be up front about that.  Their cars aren’t really going solar, but they’re getting solar panels i [...]

BYD Gains VW As Partner, Ford May Follow – Other Partnerships Also In the Works

Filed Under: green automotive technology, zoomilife.com on June 8, 2009

A lot of exciting news has happened regarding corporate partnerships and alliances over the past week or so.  Volkswagen and BYD, Daimler and Tesla, [...]

Will GM Drop the Volt?

Filed Under: Environmental News, green automotive technology, zoomilife.com on June 1, 2009

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, written by Keith Johnson, lays out the reasons why he believes that General Motors will drop the Volt. An [...]

Cash For Clunkers (aka Car Scrap) Scheme is Worthless

Filed Under: Environmental News, Green Politics on May 16, 2009

The Demopublicans in Congress want to make it so that anyone turning in a used vehicle that meets certain criteria gets paid for doing so. Basically, [...]