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.
Talk to anyone at Mercedes-Benz, and they’ll tell you that their S Class sedan is the best car in the world. Unfortunately, “the Best Car in the World” was trademarked long ago – by Rolls Royce, and people like Freddy Mercury, John Lennon, and Lawrence of Arabia (who drove his Rolls Royce into war) have [...]
Last night, after a round of drinks and delicious hamburgers, I wandered back into a New Haven parking garage where there were two empty parking spots and an EV charging station. Is this promoting EV’s, or hurting them? Indeed, cropping up all around Connecticut are individual EV charging stations, from the “Free Juice Bar” in [...]
Hyundai has been on a roll lately, going from win to win on the strength of its current product, positive “buzz” over its recent “Blue” hydrogen concept cars, and the genius of its industry-leading “Hyundai Assurance” program. Hyundai’s marketers deserve an inch of freedom, I suppose – and they are taking a mile of it, [...]
Last week, British “boutique” car-builder Bristol was saved from the global carpocalypse purchased by Frazer-Nash – ensuring that fans of the marque (and Bristol owners!) have good reason for optimism. Green-car fans can find something to be happy about in this news as well: Frazer-Nash has recently been applying its own historic name to advanced [...]
Is there anything dirtier than garbage collection? Not if the French have something to say about it. Starting next week, electric garbage trucks will start patrolling the Parisian suburb of Courebevoie. Garbage collection has never been so quiet. French electric company PVI joined with garbage truck designer and built Semat to build this electric garbage [...]
The International Energy Agency (IEA) was established in the wake of the 1973-74 oil crisis to ensure the uninterupted supply of oil to industrialized nations. This autonomous agency now predicts oil prices will rise an additional 30% over the next three years. The goal of the IEA organization is to monitor oil production and the [...]
They had me at “Transformer.” BPG Motors has just announced that the Uno 3, their wicked little 3-wheeled transformer, is finally available for pre-order. Just $250 USD will get you on the pre-order list for this compact, city-perfect vehicle. Is your inner nerd yelping yet, Jo? Why you should care: It’s a zero emissions dicycle [...]
With many auto makers currently selling, or planning on selling, alternative fuel vehicles a study released by J.D. Power and Associates is worrisome. The study concludes that there are “relatively few consumers” in the American alternative fuel vehicle market. It estimated that the alternative fuel vehicles will capture less than 10% of the U.S. market [...]
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