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.
Chris converted from IT Business management to journalism several years ago. Since then he's blogged and written about a whole variety of green issues, preferring to concentrate upon sustainability more than anything else.
One of mashable's top 75 green tweeters, you can follow him as @britesprite.
Jaguar Land Rover has scooped a big slice of $80m in grants made available by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board to further low and zero carbon motoring. The grants were shared out between six projects; Jaguar are the lead developer for three of them and a consortium partner for another one. All consortium partners [...]
It’s a vision of the future, but it’s closer than you may think. A black ribbon of tarmac threading its way past industrial and commercial centres with regular stop off points for renewable energy transport. Local towns use their waste and biomass to produce ethanol and EVs can recharge or do battery swaps as and [...]
The hunt for a commercially viable biobutanol could finally be over thanks to an inspired, if ironic, bit of recycling by scientists working at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. They’ve taken the two main waste products from the Scotch whisky production cycle and brought them together in a process which outputs biobutanol, long heralded as [...]
A new study published by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has found that more and more Americans are warming to the idea of driving electric vehicles, citing environmental concerns as the main reason for making the change. Over a quarter of the people surveyed described themselves as familiar with electric cars while 42% of respondents [...]
Transport for London commits over $150m to UK’s largest green transport initiative. The transport authority for London has issued two tenders aimed at making the capital of Britain the electric vehicle capital of Europe by 2015. The first, worth over $100m, is for electric, hybrid and low carbon vehicles. The majority of the funding is [...]
Much hilarity and cracking of bad puns has greeted the arrival of a coffee powered car over in the UK. “The Car-puccino” which runs on “expressos” and needs its own “filter lane.” Groan. The car used was a Volkswagen Scirocco, apparently because of its resemblance to the DeLoren in Back To The Future. This prompted [...]
There are times when our elected representatives are blinded by a stunning flash of light and realise The Truth of something Common Sense has told the rest of us forever. Sadly that moment hasn’t yet arrived. But it may be drawing closer, inch by painful inch. A new report, commissioned by Greenpeace, Friends of the [...]
The Salamander of myth and legend: a creature which lives in water but renews its life in fire. It’s rubbish, Bunkum, steaming horse manure… a bit like an electric car with neither plug nor solar panels. Except no one’s told those clever boffins over at Advanced Power and Energy Sources Transportation (APET) in Hong Kong. [...]
