In a recent interview with Business Week, Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was cited as saying that Nissan has collected 56,000 orders for the LEAF already. What this actually means, I’m not sure… especially considering that just last month Nissan said they had more than 50,000 people signed up on their Nissan LEAF interest list (which [...]
Public Electric Car Charging Stations May Go Largely Unused
March 8, 2010 By 36 Comments
“Range anxiety” — the worry that your EV will run out juice before you get to where you’re going — is a term that has been bandied about a lot recently… almost annoyingly so. From a common sense standpoint, it seems only logical that range anxiety is a real phenomenon. But since we have so [...]
Largest Container Ship Operator Pledges To Cut CO2 Emissions by 20%
March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Container ships straddle a fine line between ultra-efficient and ultra-polluters. They can carry thousands of 20-ft containers across thousands of miles of ocean in relatively short time, but they also burn sulfur-laden heavy oil fuels. Each ship can emit over 150,000 tons of CO2 every year, 5,000 tons of sulfur, and other harmful particulates attributed [...]
Transonic Claims 75% Increase In Internal-Combustion Engine Fuel Efficiency
March 8, 2010 By 42 Comments
So far as we know, oil is a finite resource. But it is still the most widely used fuel for transportation right now, and likely will be for the near future. It could be twenty-five years or more before alternative fuel vehicles make up a majority of the new car market. So until then, we [...]
Audi Planning Electric "e-tron" Version of All-New A2
March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Audi is continuing its aggressive push into the electric car marketspace by bringing its “e-tron” moniker to yet another model: the A2. What’s that you say, there’s an Audi A2? Well, yes, when it was originally produced in the early 2000′s the A2 (pictured above) was essentially a European market flop. It was an oddly [...]
Car Buyers Want Green Cars To Be Better In Every Way
March 8, 2010 By 10 Comments
Fuel efficiency has increasingly become an important factor over the past few years when it comes to buying a new car. But it isn’t the only factor that matters as evidenced by a 7.5% decline in hybrid car sales in 2009 compared to 2008 when summer gas prices soared to $4/gallon. According to a new [...]
Brazil's 10 Millionth Ethanol Flex-Fuel Vehicle Hits the Road
March 8, 2010 By 16 Comments
In the world of alternative fuels, Brazilians are lucky. They have some of the best land and climate in the world with which to grow sugarcane–which they have proven is an excellent feedstock for first generation ethanol production. Not only is it incredibly easy to convert the cane sugar into ethanol through fermentation, they can [...]
2011 Mustang Certified at 31 MPG, First 300+ HP Car To Do So
March 5, 2010 By 8 Comments
