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.
General Electric will be hosting a seven-city Electric Vehicle Experience Tour that will bring automakers together in order to educate the public on the technology and operation of plug-in and pure electric vehicles. Supporting the electric vehicle market, GE has already arranged to purchase 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet as well [...]
Revealed to much fanfare at the Geneva Auto Show was the new VW Bulli concept. Volkswagen revealed to Autocar that underneath the concept were the underpinnings of a next-generation platform…and the Bulli Microbus will be built.
On Wednesday I turn 25. That is like 1/3 of my total life expectancy. Since I’m not feeling very inspired today (I’m missing that lost hour) I’m going to talk about where the world might be in 25 years.
Nils Ferber has gone from total anonymity to right near the tippy-top of my list of people I will let on my spaceship when the planet explodes – and he’s on that list by virtue of that thing up there: project “EX”. The fact that the EX is totally impractical and looks, on the surface, [...]
Here’s a fascinating experiment in the arena of social economics: imagine your country cuts the sales tax rate on fuel efficient vehicles in half, from 10% to 5%. You’d figure the average consumer would be lining up to buy one of these subsidized, fuel-efficient cars, wouldn’t you? If you did, you’d be wrong. In 2009 [...]
Suzuki is quietly establishing itself as a leader in alternative fuel vehicles with the production of CNG-fueled cars and electric scooter concepts. Suzuki clearly hopes to continue this trend in 2011, and one of Suzuki’s development partners – Intelligent Energy – reported yesterday that the company had received approval from the EU’s governing bodies to [...]
Without a doubt the biggest knock against the Volt isn’t its limited electric range or its so-so fuel efficiency, but the $41,000 price tag. Yet GM has the ability to make a much cheaper Volt. So what’re they waiting for? GM doesn’t make a dime off of every Volt they sell, having invested a large [...]
Eighteen days. Fifteen dollars worth of electricity. Oh, and a distance of 3,107 miles. That’s the impressive stat line of the Wind Explorer, a 441-pound electric car that traveled from one end of Australia to the other and smashed three world records along the way. As you’ve likely already guessed, wind power plays a significant [...]
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