Archive for August, 2006



Alternative Fuel Cars - Home technology show set for Blaisdell 

Thursday 31 August 2006 @ 1:03 pm

We’ve seen the auto show and the bridal show and the pet show, and the “Made in Hawaii” Festival starts Friday. So what’s next A home tech show. Continue Reading…

PASADENA, Calif. The eleven electric cars that once made up part of Pasadena’s city fleet have been reclaimed by their maker, Nissan. Continue Reading…

Boston, MA - August 30, 2006* - The AltWheels Festival is convening a broad, public/private coalition of automakers, municipal organizations, transportation professionals, environmental and educational leaders, and bike and walk groups, to find real alternatives to our costly addiction to oil. Continue Reading…

In a town where the car is God, there’s a new cathedral. Silvery and enigmatic, the Mercedes-Benz museum sits just off the B14 highway as it dips into a gentle fold of the Neckar Valley. Designed by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, the 15-story building looks like a loosely interleaved stack of postmodern pancakes, its bands of aluminum and glass rising in an undisciplined Continue Reading…

The first high-performance electric car isn’t just fast on the road. It’s also proving fast out the showroom door. Continue Reading…

Announcing the launch of Ecorazzi.com, a new blog dedicated to “green gossip.” Ecorazzi combines two of the hottest topics out there: celebrities and the environment. (http://www.ecorazzi.com) (PRWEB Aug 23, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/U2luZy1TaW5nLVRoaXItVGhpci1JbnNlLVplcm8= Continue Reading…




Hybrid Cars - GM offering CNG cars

Thursday 31 August 2006 @ 1:02 am


Bangkok Post - AUTOMOBILES :Chevrolet Sales Thailand will enter the alternative fuel car market this year, by offering customers the option of equipping new Chevrolet Optra 1.6-litre sedan or estate models with compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment, or upgrading

Lawmakers have unfinished business
Salem News - Alternative Fuels. The bill would give $2,000 tax credits to anyone buying a hybrid or alternative fuel car and would require state agencies to dramatically increase the number of alternative fuel cars in their fleets. * Statute of Limitations. The bill

Demand hybrid innovations for more efficiency
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - PHEVs could be the thing that gets American car manufacturers back in the alternative-fuel car game. Ford and General Motors have been getting kicked around for the past couple of years by Asian manufacturers of more efficient cars like Toyota and

Chamber Backs Holbrook, O Day for Council
Surf Santa Monica - He does, however, have a business background, having owned an alternative fuel car rental company in Los Angeles before being named executive director of the local non-profit, Environment Now, “Terry has helped the Planning




Electric Cars - Lugar, Jischke address energy summit 

Wednesday 30 August 2006 @ 1:02 pm

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 29 (UPI) — More than 600 U.S. government, business and science leaders met Tuesday for an invitation-only “energy summit” at Purdue University. Tell me more…

Government investigators have found that the master and several crewmen of the sunken M/T Solar 1 were either uncertified to man oil tankers or had expired licensesor both. Tell me more…

Submitted by Addison Independent on Mon, 2006-08-28 16:10. Tell me more…

SINGAPORE : With crude oil prices passing the US$70 per barrel mark, some motorists are considering cars powered by alternative fuels for their next purchase. Tell me more…

Companies ‘face stringent laws’ if they fail to abide by commitment to cut CO2 emissions by 25%. Tell me more…




Electric Cars - Schneider: Readers say E85 a savvy alternative to foreign oil

Wednesday 30 August 2006 @ 1:02 am

Lansing State Journal - Schneider: Readers say E85 a savvy alternative to foreign oil On alternative fuels: From Mark Moore of DeWitt: “I got a charge reading your (Aug. 18) column about the price of E85 (ethanol) fuel in the Lansing area. “When I visit my in-laws in More

Chattanoogan - Switching to alternative fuels results in significant energy savings, he said. For example, it takes just one unit of fossil energy to produce more than three units of ethanol, a renewable fuel suitable for use in spark-producing engines. There are More

Waterbury Republican-American - Cheshire Town Councilman Tim White argues that alternative fuels can help America disentangle itself from the messy Middle East, provide cost relief for American motorists and even aid struggling Connecticut farmers. If only, White contends, the More

Peoria Journal Star - A hundred years after the first and only Great Race World, Rally Partners Inc. of California is setting up the race once more with 20 vintage cars and 20 cars running on alternative fuels or using new technologies. Originally, McKone intended to race More

Wilmington Morning Star - fuel vehicles use ethanol or other substances as fuel. Sources: www.fueleconomy.gov, www.Edmunds.com, www.dailyfueleconomytip.com, www.greenercars.com, Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels More




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