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EV Charging Infrastructure: the New VHS vs. BetaMax?
While Tesla Motors and other EV manufacturers have had recent successes and grabbed quite a few headlines, they still face a major hurdle: charging infrastructure. Without a fast and reliable way to re-fuel their vehicles, EV customers will be limite...
2010 Transportation Predictions: What is the Reality?
Earth2Tech has posted an interesting article which takes a look at some of the predictions made for green transportation at the beginning of the decade, and how close those predictions were to reality. While the decade started out with a lot of promi...
Riding the Rails With the World’s Fastest Train
Even Superman himself would have a hard time keeping up with what is being described as the world’s fastest train. While trial runs took place earlier in the month, the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway officially began service in China on Decembe...
Cruisin in the Fusion: Does Ford’s Latest Hybrid Earn its Green Cred?
After six days and more than 400 miles of real-world road testing of the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, I am happy to report that the car has earned its green cred. It travels more than 600 miles on a single tank of gas and provides instantaneous MPG ...
The Accidental Environmentalist: CNG in Pakistan
by Ahmed Riaz Summer in Lahore, Circa 2005 As my friend, Mohammad, opened up the truck of his car I noticed something rather strange. Inside was large metal canister with a gauge and pipes sticking out. Obviously seeing something that looked like hom...
Newest Batteries Better for Hybrids than Electrics
Doing the math on the newest generation of lithium ion batteries suggests the latest advances in battery technology will benefit hybrid cars more than all-electric ones, one expert predicts. Hybridcars has an excellent interview with John German, an ...
China Produces More Cars than the U.S.
It’s true: The latest figures from the U.S. Department of Transportation show that China surpassed the U.S. last year in the total number of cars produced. This is a radical shift from 1980, when the U.S. manufactured 56 times more vehicles tha...
When Green Marketing Goes Wrong: The Chevy Volt Dance
Have you seen the hideous “Chevy Volt Song and Dance” performed at the L.A. Auto Show this year? This is a classic example of green marketing gone wrong. The song is cheesy, the dancers perform an uninspired dance, and the whole spectacle...
EPA’s Gift to Maritime Industry: Stringent Emission Regs
Just in time for holiday gift-giving season the Environmental Protection Agency wrapped-up final regulations that slap stringent emission control standards on ocean vessels and marine diesel engines. And this is one gift the maritime industry can’t...
Slow Sales of Honda Insight Give Insight into Hybrid Market
Are hybrid cars still considered niche, or even — dare we say — “luxury” purchases? The failure of the lower-cost Honda Insight hybrid to dent the market for the Prius has some in the auto industry answering yes. Business Week...
Toyota Now Wants to Be Your Electric Car Company, Too
After leading the hybrid car market with its best-selling Prius, Toyota declined, quite publicly, to join the rush into all electric and plug-in electric vehicles. Now, it would seem the world’s largest automaker is having a change of heart. In...
New Study: How Soon Can We Expect Wide Benefits from Plug-In Hybrids?
With GM’s Volt and Toyota’s Plug-In Prius coming to the market within the next two years, how soon can we expect plug-in hybrids to deliver on their social and ecological benefits? A new study by the National Academy of Sciences projects ...
Future of Fuel Cells Hinges on Asia Action
Fuel cells of all types could help fuel an impressive growth curve for renewables in the Asia-Pacific region over the next 10 to 15 years. Many countries there say renewables will comprise 8 percent to 20 percent of their energy portfolio by 2020 to ...
The Dragon in Africa: How Chinese Investment Changes The Game
By David Abraham Al-Jazeera recently posted a video highlighting an investment surge in the tiny central African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The country is the third largest exporter of petroleum and gas–a fact that is not immediately obviou...
Electric Vehicles: The News Keeps Coming
In years to come, we may look back on 2009 as the year that electric vehicles became mainstream–at least as far as the media is concerned. The past few weeks have been no different as a number of organizations from all over the automotive indus...
Oybike Rolls into the Bike-Sharing Biz
As we’ve been reporting, some bike-sharing programs (well, okay, mostly the Velib system in Paris) have been navigating rough stretches of road, due to everything from vandalism to poor logistics to class distinctions. But that didn’t kee...
Chevy Volt: Where’s My Test Drive?
I would like to announce a major scandal surrounding the highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt “extended range” electric car: there is only one car available for test drives. This reporter showed up early for a minor press junket on the sidel...
Studies Measure Climate Change’s Impact on Public Health
Just in time for the opening of the United National Climate Change conference in Copenhagen next week, the London-based medical journal The Lancet has published the findings of a number of studies that examine the links between climate change and pub...
Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays
Planning on travelling this holiday season? Travelocity, the online travel agency, is serious about sustainable travel that will benefit both traveler and Mother Earth, one mile at a time. In an effort to “embrace travel as an agent of positive c...
KLM Flies into Sustainable Air Transport
Is that the smell of bio-kerosene in the air? If you were one of the passengers on KLM Royal Dutch Airline’s first passenger flight powered by bio-kerosene this week, then you were also one of the first to get a whiff of this new sustainable fuel, ...
SABA Motors Vision: an Exotic Electric Sports Car for the Masses
Ever since I was a kid, when my father used give me Matchbox cars he bought on his way home from work, I’ve been crazy about cars. So I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to speak with Simon Saba of Saba Motors, whose EV vision is so...
Chrysler Pulling Plug on EV Development? Maybe Not
It wasn’t all that long ago that Chrysler Corp. pocketed more than $12.5 billion in government bailout funds to avoid a bankruptcy filing, promising on the way to the bank to build more fuel efficient cars and produce electric vehicles by 2011. Abo...
EV Tech Center Abuzz Over an Electrified Future
Electric vehicles and the changes they promise to bring to our transportation infrastructure are making lots of headlines these days, but to Ed Kjaer, the director of Electric Vehicle Tech Center, EVs are old hat. Kjaer drives an electric Toyota RAV-...
Landmark “Electrification Coalition” Plays Down Environmental Benefits of EVs, Plays Up Oil Dependence
More than a dozen top executives ranging from Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn to David W. Crane of NRG Energy and Frederick W. Smith of FedEx Corporation jointly announced Monday the launch of the Electrification Coalition, a serious and rigorous industr...
Southern California Edison: On Teaming with Titan Automakers, and Sharing Customers
The smart grid is coming! And so are (again, finally) electric cars! Want to know how this makes Ted Craver, the president and CEO of electric power generator and distributor Edition International, feel? Excited. And scared. “We’re lookin...
Ford, Partners, to Focus on the “E” in EVs
There are different estimates and projections regarding when, and if, electric vehicles (EVs) will transform our transportation infrastructure, but one thing seems certain: carmakers won’t be able to transform the infrastructure on their own. L...
Transit and Trails: Connecting People to Nature on Public Transit
Don’t own a car, but want to get out to one of the Bay Area’s hundreds of parks and trails? Or perhaps, you are trying to reduce your carbon footprint and wondering how to get to your favorite hike without using your car? Transit and Trai...
