What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
Pardon the tardiness for this update from the weekend’s season opener of the American Le Mans Series. I am still recovering from Corvette Racing’s two cars running into each other, taking themselves out of the running for the win in the GT2 class. But in the Prototype class, it was all about the diesels. In [...]
Luxury and supercar makers the world round are trying to find ways to remain relevant in a world ever more obsessed with going green. Ignore, for a moment, that all the luxury and supercars sold each year make up an insignificant fraction of all cars sold worldwide and that somebody who has $300K to plunk [...]
I’ve brought up the subject of idling cars a few times before on this blog. Ford says letting your car idle and warm up reduces emissions, while a county in England wants to make it illegal to leave a car idling (except in certain cases). It is a case for contention among environmentalists and automakers, though for [...]
This ain’t yo daddy’s Flux Capacitor. A “stealthy” (read: “completely unheard of” — stealthy would imply actively trying to stay under the radar) itty-bitty start-up company from down under has come up with an in-wheel electric motor that might just make electric cars the outright kings of speed. The “Axial Flux 3-Phase AC Induction Wheel [...]
Last year, just prior to declaring bankruptcy, GM debuted its Project P.U.M.A., a Segway-like device that moves about on two wheels controlled by the body movements of the driver. But unlike the Segway, you sat in the P.U.M.A.. While it didn’t save GM from bankruptcy, the idea apparently held some weight with the designers, who [...]
2010 could go down as the year of the green supercar… prototype. Most every high-end automaker has either rolled out a hybrid concept, like the Porsche 918 and Ferrari KERS hybrid, or at least plans for some kind of more fuel-efficient supercar. Well now you can add McLaren to that list. The famous maker of [...]
Big cargo ships are some of the heaviest polluters on the planet. They might also be one of the most efficient forms of transporting goods — and a large reason why we Americans are able to purchase so much from so far away for comparatively little money. In an effort to curb the harmful emissions [...]
Electric might not seem very practical for most of the population right now, but for many companies that employ fleets of vehicles, they make all the sense on the world. Many fleet vehicles don’t wander too far from home base, and often run the same route every day. Without the cost of gas or maintaince, [...]
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