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’s not a Monty Python skit, it’s real. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have come up with a way to repurpose used motor oil into a usable fuel using microwaves, potentially converting the 8 billion gallons of oil discarded last year alone into a useful commodity, instead of a nasty waste product. Unlike Valvoline’s [...]
We’ve covered some of the most recent advances in genetically modified bio-fuel sources here on Gas 2.0, and while all this exciting R&D might be regarded as revolutionary, Zachary Shahan – over on our award-winning sister site, Cleantechnica – reminds us that this sort of rapid progress also raises doubts among some about what the [...]
Last week Road & Track gave us the lovely Volt convertible, and while GM has no plans for a drop-top plug-in they are apparently developing a Buick Volt. Will the Volt’s high price go down easier with a Buick badge? From the start, the Chevrolet Volt’s Voltec technology was designed to underpin more than just [...]
Car design has always been a serious business, with billions at stake and huge windfalls of fame and fortune going to anyone who can convince a major automaker that the doodles in their notebooks will “play in Peoria”, and thereby qualify them to be the next Sergio Farina, Tom Gale, or Chris Bangle (for better [...]
Not content to take on (and spank) the gas-powered Superbikes on sissified paved racetracks, electric-bike hero Chip Yates has decided to take on the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb this June. Yates won’t be the first to ride an electric bike up the mountain, but he might be the first electric contended to win against stiff [...]
GM is developing a new 7-speed dry clutch transmission similar in concept to what’s found in cars like the Porsche 997 PDK and Volkswagen’s GTi hot hatch – but the patent filings that came to light last week show that GM’s Chinese partners SAIC are listed right alongside GM. SAIC’s high-level involvement has caused some [...]
In Middletown, CT, just off of Route 9 and a few blocks from downtown, a beast is being built. Even with over 1,500 ft-lbs of torque on tap though, you’ll never hear this 9-second, 1981 Chevy Camaro coming, because its 100% electric.
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