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.
It has taken the major automakers around the world decades to catch on with electric vehicles. Where we should already all be driving electric cars, major electric vehicles will only start hitting the market in the next few months. Much attention has been paid to the Volt and Nissan LEAF, but there lots of other [...]
My first car ever was a Mercury Villager minivan. That lasted me about three months before it joined my ever-growing collection of “former cars.” After a summer of cleaning toilets as a janitor, my parents took me car shopping with a wad of cash in my pocket, and high hopes. My hopes were quickly dashed [...]
Jaguar Land Rover has scooped a big slice of $80m in grants made available by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board to further low and zero carbon motoring. The grants were shared out between six projects; Jaguar are the lead developer for three of them and a consortium partner for another one. All consortium partners [...]
Mercedes has been developing its own hybrid tech for years, but—like Nissan and Mazda—has seen its hybrid powertrains lag far behind the sophistication of Toyota’s. Could Mercedes-Benz really be the next major automaker to get Toyota’s hybrid synergy drive? Industry reports coming out of Japan indicate that negotiations between Daimler AG and Toyota began more [...]
This is the face of the made-from-hemp Kestrel EV being built by Canadian car-maker Motive Industries, who made a big media splash last month courtesy of the car’s “controversial” composite construction. As you can see (above, rendered in a raw “composite hemp” finish) the Kestrel’s design photos show a modern city car that manages to [...]
I. Hate. Stoplights. I loathe them, despise them, and if I were king for a day, I would tear down every stop light in the country. Sheer anarchy would follow of course, but I think everybody could use a little anarchy in their lives. My biggest problem with stop lights is that most of them [...]
In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt instructed 16 battleships and a fleet of escort cruisers to travel around the world. Called the Great White Fleet, it was a demonstration of America’s up-and-coming power. Powered by coal, these smoke-belchers spent two years at sea sailing from port to port. They went through a lot of coal, but [...]
What would you do with $5 million? Would you use your money to spread joy, good will, and give to charitable organizations? Or would you go on a self-indulgent spending spree, buying that yacht and house in the Rivera you’ve always wanted? Personally, I’d probably buy a cabin in the middle of the woods and [...]
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