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Smith Electric Vehicles to build electric trucks in Kansas City Company officials at the UK-based Smith Electric Vehicles announced on Friday that they will begin manufacturing “The world’s largest battery-electric-powered truck” at a new plant in Kansas City, Missouri. The battery-powered Newton will be the first vehicle to be produced at the new plant, but [...]
Faulty fuel tank support straps in new H3T latest setback for GM Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for General Motors, they did. The financially beleaguered automaker announced a recall of 1,738 of its new Hummer H3Ts on Friday, after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a weak support strap could [...]
Jay Keasling of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California visited Stephen Colbert last night, explaining that the same yeast that we use to produce beer and bread will soon be fueling our cars and planes. [dailyshow=http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:221178]
Professor Daniel Sperling Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California Davis visited The Daily Show last week to discuss hybrids, advanced batteries, alternative fuels, transportation policy and more. Sperling’s book Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability was published by Oxford University Press in January 2009. [dailyshow=http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:218370]
Waste Management of Seattle has begun construction on a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station and unveiled a fleet of CNG-fueled solid waste collection trucks. The Seattle project is part of a larger national effort to cut the company’s CO2 emissions by 15% by 2020. Waste Management is investing $29 million in 106 new [...]
Powered by used vegetable oil from Colorado restaurants, a new ski shuttle service is now offering “carbon-neutral” luxury shuttle service from Denver International Airport to Colorado ski resorts like Vail, Aspen, and Breckenridge. Last month, Denver waiter-turned-entrepreneur Kristopher Klain started offering a more eco-friendly airport shuttle alternative in Colorado Green Shuttle‘s flagship seven-passenger retro-fitted Ford [...]
For the third year in a row, The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected an eco-themed word as its word of the year. “Hypermiling” or “to hypermile” as Oxford defines it, is “an attempt to maximize gas mileage by making fuel-conserving adjustments to one’s car and one’s driving techniques. Rather than aiming for good mileage [...]
Democrats fall eight votes short of preventing filibuster With gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon, Senate Democrats wanted the U.S. government to throttle back on the billions of dollars in profits being taken in by the major oil companies. But with the White House threatening a veto of the bill, the Senate voted 51-43 to [...]
