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Filed under: Hydrogen , China Hydrogen fuel cells have a lot to recommend them.
Filed under: Hybrid , Honda , Detroit Auto Show , European Union , UK Click above for a gallery of leaked Honda Insight images The world can be a leaky place, especially since the internet makes it easy to spread any early information in an extremely rapid manner. Such is life for automakers at the moment.
Filed under: Hybrid , GM , HUMMER , Green Daily All things considered, it appears that we think of GM’s 2,555 hybrid sales in December a success.
Filed under: Solar , Toyota I warned you not to hold your breath on that solar-powered Toyota . A recent story from Reuters indicated that the Japanese automaker was developing a solar-powered car although a plug-in car would be an intermediate step along the way.
New research from Kajima, a Japanese company, and Tokyo University, suggests that microbes from human waste could be a good source for hydrogen fuel cell cars. According to a report yesterday on Japan’s Nikkei, the company has produced a fuel cell that has generated 130W from each cubic meter of waste.
Filed under: Hybrid , Legislation and Policy , Green Daily How cool is it when you pull up to a parking space that’s close to where you need to be and you’re one of the few people allowed to park there? This privilege is most often reserved for handicapped persons and pregnant women, but the perk has been extended towards hybrid owners in a growing number of cities, communities and offices. Not surprisingly, there are both proponents (those with hybrids, obviously) for the system and opponents, most often people who choose fuel efficient vehicles that don’t happen to be hybrids
New hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs by 2012 We’ve heard it before. Ford was going to become a hybrid leader, then they weren’t. Of course, now there is also a new sheriff in town with new rules and new plans
The good ole days, at least for hybrid sellers Change. Talk about what a difference a few months makes.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , Hybrid , Green Daily The AltCar crowd around the EV1 and the Chevy Volt. Photo to Amy Williams Many of the people in Plug in America were excited by Barack Obama’s win in the US presidential election.
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , Detroit Auto Show Click above for a high-res gallery of the Dodge EV Chrysler made a really big deal about its three electric vehicle concepts that were first introduced to the public in September of last year (still not used to that, huh?) and was sure to mention at every opportunity that it planned on introducing at least one of these three vehicles, or at least a variation of the general theme, by 2010. There are quite a few skeptics - we ourselves are taking a “wait and see” attitude towards the situation - but the big loans that the automaker just got mean that it’ll at least be around long enough to show the concepts at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show later this month.
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