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.
By now hearing about the promise of hydrogen fuel doesn’t produce nearly the same excitement of yesteryear. Does it sound sacrilegious to say it almost generates irritation at the mention of an alternative energy form that sounds so promising as to even exist as a beautiful fantasy?
Chrysler has been quiet. Too quiet, if you ask me. They are up to something over there at the Pentastar, collaborating with their Italian overlords on some car or concept that will blow us away. At least, I hope so. But Fiat has been anything but quiet. Their latest announcement lays the groundwork for bringing [...]
For the better part of a year now, the auto industry has been pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold up on issuing a final ruling on whether or not higher blends of ethanol will be allowed at normal fuel pumps. As most of you are surely aware, the current blend limit allowed by EPA [...]
It’s a sign of the times that there is enough worldwide demand for electric car engineers that an institution of higher learning can establish a graduate program devoted to the subject. Although in the last few years programs have sprung up in the United States that offer certificates or minors concentrating on EV engineering, yesterday [...]
Electric cars have been around for over a century, without ever catching on with the general public. There are plenty of reasons for that; low oil prices, limited range, and the overall prevalence of petrol-powered cars. The business model behind selling cars of any kind, though, has not really changed. Dealerships bring cars into a showroom, customers [...]
Carbon Green, Inc., a tire recycling company with administrative offices in Canada, is pushing into the tire recycling market with a rather intriguing entry: a tire recycling method based on pyrolysis. The company has been gearing up to process about 800,000 tires in the first year of operation for its new recycling plant in Cyprus. [...]
The Nikkei newspaper (subs. req’d) says that a Japanese company has built a quick charge system that can take a battery from zero charge to 50% full in about 3 minutes. JFE Engineering Corp, based in Yokohama, says that the system will go on sale later this year and has the capability to charge 5 [...]
