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It seems hard to believe, but 2011 is all but over. In my first year as Editor of Gas2, I’ve tried to bring you lots of cool, weird, and interesting stories on alternative fuels. But which stories did you, the readers, respond most to? Well to round out the year, I’ve compiled a list of [...]
Banking on the success of the Prius brand, Toyota has expanded its hybrid offerings three-fold with the Prius Plug-In, Prius V, and upcoming Prius C. While both the Plug-In and V models of the Prius offer substantial steps up in technology and space (respectively), it is the diminutive Prius C that seems to have captured [...]
The political climate in Washington D.C. right now is contentious these days, to say the least. Chief among these debates is that about the budget deficit and wasteful spending. So it should come as no surprise that, just as electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids start gaining market share, the Fed’s have decided to let three [...]
Well dear readers, the curtain is coming down on another year. 2011 will surely go down as a watershed year for the world, and for me personally as well. On that note, it’s time for your last dose of the green news roundup. This morning’s highlights include the Indy EV 500, Mitsubishi is building an [...]
On Wednesday, state officials in Washington broke ground on their portion of the West Coast Green Highway, which will eventually link the entire I-5 corridor with public-access electric vehicle recharging stations. The site of the state´s first DC Fast-Charging station is Bellingham´s Sehome Village Shopping Center. Most of the stations will be located at private retail centers [...]
For alternative fuel vehicles, 2011 is sure to go down as a watershed year. It isn’t just fringe wackos putzing about in homemade EV’s anymore, but massive corporations with billions of dollars at their disposal. Now green is being seen as a luxury, motivating many luxury companies and coach builders to start offering their elite [...]
With the NHTSA probing the Chevy Volt’s battery pack for fire problems, and Fisker recalling its first 50 cars over cooling issues, there are a lot of questions about the safety of big car batteries. Well Nissan has some answers, thanks to two-dozen LEAF electric vehicles that were ravaged by the devastating earthquake and tsunami [...]
Electric vehicles run on batteries – but they can also run on capacitors. The technology isn’t quite at the practical stage yet, but FDK Corporation’s refined capacitor is one step closer to a marketable product. Their latest effort was fitted to Takayanagi’s Miluira cart model and exhibited at Tokyo’s Eco Products 2011 this month. The [...]
