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After setting a 300+ mph land-speed record for fuel cell cars in 2009 and following it up with a 300+ mph record for electric vehicles at Bonneville last summer, it seems that the engineering students behind Ohio State University’s Buckeye Bullet land speed record car issued a press release, then promptly got back to work. [...]
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2012 will bring with it Tesla’s much-hyped Model S electric sedan. We’ve gotten some good looks so far, but Motor Authority has gotten some of the best shots yet, suggesting that there may in fact be room for as many as seven people – 5 adults and 2 small children – inside the Model S [...]
Virginia has had a checkered past in the leading the nation in progressive movements. Yet, in a bit of an unexpected move Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has signed an executive order calling for widespread use of alternative fueled vehicles throughout the State.
Czech automaker Skoda has released the specs on its large sedan, the Superb, and what they’re offering isn’t what you might expect. This 53 mpg diesel-powered sedan has a Greenline option uses just 4.4 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers. That’s about 53 mpg, and as an added bonus, it has rear passenger footrests, for the little dictator in all of us.
A Harvard University study at the Kennedy School of Government, titled “Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Vehicle Market?” by Henry Lee and Grant Lovellette, has found that as the price of gas goes up the interest in electric cars also increases, but people won’t really start buying EV’s until gas costs at least $4.50 a gallon.
Stricter emissions laws threaten to descend upon Germany’s low emissions zones after 2012. Whether or not the standards will be as strictly enforced as they are regulated remains to be seen. The German Environmental Aid Association has noted that standards are currently not enforced much at all. More was learned in an interview.
Truck company Navistar has filed a lawsuit against Lisa Jackson, the Director of the EPA, accusing her agency of allegedly not upholding the Clean Air Act and not doing its job in protecting public health.
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