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One must love the forward thinking of BMW. Siemens has introduced a system for inductive charging of electric vehicles. This means no contact charging for ones electric car. The project is up and running with help from the German Environment Ministry and taking place in Berlin. The basic premise is similar to the connect free [...]
Waste Management (WM) has opened a public compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Camden New Jersey. In May WM opened a similar CNG station located in Wheeling Illinois. That station opened with 40 filling bays and is used to fuel WM’s six CNG powered trucks that operate in and around the city of Chicago. [...]
“Fast” and “hybrid” are words that once were not associated with each other. Now hybrid tech is being seen as a performance advantage, which is why Formula 1,000 organizers asked a Honda Insight to bow out for being too fast.
Mazda‘s next rotary-powered RX sports car will be the first application of new laser-ignition technology, marking yet another “first” for the company whose identity is built on a cornerstone of rotary-powered sportscars (zoom-zoom, and all that). As we reported back in April, the use of conventional “spark” plugs to ignite fuel will soon give way to [...]
To prove their worth to Americans, electric vehicles must do more they move about silently without pollution. They’ve got to be able to race. And this weekend EV’s set new records at the Pikes Peak “Race to the Clouds.”
Honeywell‘s camelina-based Green Jet Fuel arrived at last weekend’s Paris AirShow in grand style, powering the company’s Gulfstream G450 demonstrator across the Atlantic as part of the company’s “proof of concept” display to promote and market their biofuel. The Honeywell jet flew in on a 50/50 blend of the Green Jet Fuel and a conventional [...]
While some might consider a quiet electric car to be a boon, others worry that these silent cars could become pedestrian killers. To address this, Ford is asking its fans to decide what the upcoming Focus Electric should sound like. There is already pending legislation that would require all EV’s to emit some sort of [...]
Across the Pacific Ocean General Motors has been doing good business, especially in China and India. And it was in India that GM chose to unveil an electric version of its Beat subcompact, better known in America has the Chevy Spark.
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