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 would seem that the latest trend in automakers is a selective rollout of green vehicles in the most appealing markets. Ford, which has limited initial sales of the Focus Electric to 19 metropolitan areas, has pushed back the rollout until Spring of 2012. Unless you live in New York or California, that is.
A Japanese food delivery service for the elderly could not find an electric vehicle that suited their needs…so they built their own electric scooter and called it the “E-Pick1.” With 200 already on roads and another 800 expected soon, this food service-turned-scooter-company is already seeing a rise in interest in its electric scooters.
More than 70 tar-sands activists were arrested outside the White House lawn this weekend, in response to their participation in a non-violent disobedience protest to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry environmentally destructive Canadian oil from the Alberta province to Houston and Port Arthur, TX. Despite several existing legs of the Yukon XL [...]
Big, comfortable buses are typical scenery throughout German cities like Hamburg – and, since 2003, many of those buses have been running on hydrogen fuel cells. In the years since, the number of fuel-cell buses in Hamburg has grown from a single prototype to 36 (with plans to add at least 3 more to the [...]
I try to stay out of politics because, quite frankly, I don’t trust politicians. As much as I try to avoid politics though, domestic energy policies promoting green energy are of huge importance and interest to me. So when Michelle Bachman supposedly said that she’ll bring back $2.00 a gallon gas, I started thinking…what would it take to bring back $2 a gallon gas?
These are not good days to be in the nuclear reactor business. The reactors at Japan’s earthquake-battered Fukushima plant continue to pump incalculable amounts of radiation into the air and ocean, causing radioactive rain to fall on North American soil. The member nations of the European Union are acting to distance their people from nuclear [...]
Like many green-tech enthusiasts, I’m simultaneously a fan of cutting-edge green tech, scooters, and the sort of pie-in-the-sky “vaporware” projects that push the boundaries of what we think of as possible. As such, the compressed-air propelled scooter concept (above) is flipping all of my switches. It’s called the Hornet, and it combines a compressed-air engine, [...]
Whether we like it or not, oil is as economically necessary for our (current) global society as it is a foundation for our fuels … and it’s not getting easier to come by. Even those claims, however, are often met with controversy – some claiming that oil is running out, others claiming that oil is being [...]
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