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.
Last week, Canada’s Globe and Mail published an article without running it through fact-check, which is usually a reliable indicator that the article was either; A: bought and paid for, or B: hastily thrown together by someone who has no idea what s/he is talking about. I like to pretend there isn’t all that much [...]
Proposing a higher gas tax is pretty much political suicide, and nobody wants to pay more for gas. A new study suggests that a higher gas tax could actually lower America’s vulnerability to gas price spikes. The United States has the lowest gas taxes of any country in the developed world, and the Federal Government [...]
There are thousands of small car companies spread across the world, among them Artega, which produces just a single model, the Artega GT. At Geneva, they unveiled an electric version of this small sports car, the Artega SE. The Artega GT features a 300 horsepower Volkswagen V6 engine in a car the weighs just over [...]
Even though there is electricity everywhere, electric vehicles supposedly face an uphill battle without a formal “charging infrastructure.” But a new app for the iPhone crowdsources private outlets for public EV charging. The app is called Plugshare, and in addition to providing you with the locations of public charging stations, also informs you of people [...]
While Republicans continue to rail against high-speed trains, pining for the good old days when party founder Abe Lincoln was a railroad lawyer, Japan continues to advance into the 21st century. The latest: the thin-nosed Hayabusa (“Falcon”) bullet train debuted last week, making its 300 kilometre per hour (186 mph) run from Tokyo to Aomori [...]
Most people don’t think “light” when they think of diesels. In the US, especially, the word “diesel” is almost synonymous with dually pickups and farm equipment. That’s changing, of course, with cars like the TDI Volkswagens. Even within enthusiast circles, though, diesel engines still conjure up images of cast-iron engine blocks weighing hundreds of pounds [...]
One the members over at the high-end car forum TeamSpeed snapped some photos of BMW’s upcoming i8 (better known as the Vision EfficientDynamics hybrid) which the company presented on its website as a “near production-ready vehicle“. That’s usually PR-speak for “we’ll build it if you order 20,000 units”, but – from these pictures – BMW [...]
This is the new Veritas RSIII Hybrid sportscar … which (for better or for worse) looks an awful lot like the “regular” Veritas RSIII sportscar it’s based on. The new Hybrid Veritas is powered by a 600 hp version of the 5.0 liter V10 found in BMW’s M5 sports sedan, which powers the rear wheels. [...]
