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.
Revenge of the Electric Car debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival back in April, but is still hotly anticipated in those markets that haven’t yet gotten a screening. If you’re in New York City this week, though, your wait is almost over – the movie will be shown this Tuesday, July 12th, for free in [...]
With oodles of doodles filling the pages of his notebooks, Max Ostap is just like many thousands of car-obsessed students. Unlike the vast majority of those thousands of other students, however, Max is actually talented – as evidenced by his latest student proposal: a slick neo-modern luxury sedan he calls the Tesla Current. Make no [...]
We live in an age packed with hot-selling hybrid cars, hybrid boats, and even hybrid military vehicles. In fact, the whole “hybrid” thing has become so ubiquitous lately that brands like Buick and Chevrolet don’t even call their hybrids hybrids anymore. In other words, you’d be forgiven for assuming that at least a few of [...]
US Dept. of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood recently announced plans to give more than 100 million USD to various transit authorities in order to promote the use of clean and renewable fuels in public transit … and he’s going to distribute it “gladiator style”. No, no – he’s not going to make state transit [...]
In any discussions about who has the sharpest, alien-brain mind in the history of automotive design, Gordon Murray‘s name is bound to get dropped. Murray designed a number of innovative Formula 1 cars over a career spanning more than two decades – one among the many was the infamous Brabham Fan Car, which was so [...]
The new EPA ratings for electric vehicles netted the Nissan Leaf a 99 MPGe, and the Tesla Roadster 119 MPGe. Their latest all-electric competitor, the Mitsubishi i, has been rated at an impressive 112 MPGe, with an estimated 98 miles of all-electric range. The 112 MPGe rating is the combined rating as well; in the [...]
Since the Chevy Volt went on sale late last year, GM has managed to sell about 2,745 of the plug-in hybrids to American consumers. Meanwhile its European cousin, the Opel Ampera, has already sold out of the 5,000 units allocated for 2011.
Growing up, I found many uses for the excess sawdust left from my father’s work, including using it as kitty litter and cleaning up spilled liquids, (what an exciting childhood!) But could sawdust also be used to fuel our cars?
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