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 [GM Inside News Forum] The Road to a Stronger CAFE Standard: In the meantime, the company is exploring other options: offering a smaller, four-cylinder engine in its forthcoming Camaro muscle car and eliminating altogether some of the gas-guzzler sedans on its drawing board. Ford is readying a new family of gas engines that will improve fuel economy between 10% and 20% compared with the engines they replace.

[technizzel] Automotive X-Prize: Innovating the Auto Industry, One Battery at a ...: Yi Cui from GM-VOLT.com, he stated that he is currently doing tests to see if his batteries will meet a target of 1000 cycles (better than most li-ion cells) without substantial depreciation, and that he expects to have results in the next couple of months. The implications of this kind of study are very important.

[Taxi News and Views From Around The English Speaking World] Cab company shifts to green with purchase of six Priuses: Founder of the all-hybrid Green Cab Co, Gruberg said he can easily fit four in the Prius he’s driven for nearly a year, and he vouches for the car’s safety and efficiency. These days, he said, Crown Victoria cab drivers shell out $45 to $50 a shift for gas, while hybrid drivers spend $12 or $18 on a busy day.

 [Nanovip.com - Nanotechnology companies directory and Nanotechnology products directory] Hydrogen Solutions to Replace Gasoline Inventor will Keynote ...: He is the primary inventor of ECD’s technology including the Ovonic thin-film photovoltaic technology and its continuous web multi-junction roll-to-roll machine, the high-powered NiMH battery (now used in everything from cell phones, to laptop computers, to electric and hybrid cars. These thin film photovoltaics have been turned into roof shingles, bring affordable energy to remote villages, even helped power the Mir space station), the Ovonic hydrogen technology as well as Ovonic Universal Memory (OUM), also known as Phase Change Memory (PCM) which is receiving much positive attention from the semiconductor industry.

[the Prius owners group] What’s up down under: Volvo will invest more than $1.9 billion over the next five years to reduce emissions and fuel consumption. In the short term, it is focusing on hybrid technology and plans to introduce conventional hybrid models in the next few years.

 [Qdtleroy's Weblog] Turning to the sun in the land of oil: The establishment of Centcom, however, raises the expectation of a shift in the nature of the US’s bonds with a number of African countries - towards a situation where policy towards Africa is mediated through military relationships fostered by the Pentagon, with all its financial resources rather than through the much more constrained state department and its operation of (for example) Usaid development programmes.

[Keyboard Smashing 101] How To Get The Best Gas Mileage While Driving Your Car: You could buy a hybrid but they cost much more compared to comparable vehicles. If you keep up on the maintenance and repairs of your current vehicle you should be able to maintain peak performance of he engine and in some cases if an engine diagnostic is performed and a problem is discovered you could find that you increase miles per gallon or kilometers per liter.

 [An Adventurous Life] Green In Ways You Never Thought Of: But then I would have to buy oil, gas, fluids and lubricants, get oil changes, new tires, and outfit my car with Eco-cool bumper stickers to tell the world where I stand. Not to mention car payments and insurance.

 [Mark O'Sullivan - Blog] Yeah, but what can I do about it?: But I sold my gas-guzzling, exhaust-spewing jeep and traded up to a used bmw. It uses premium fuel and certainly doesn’t kick out as much exhaust as the old jeep.

 [Rashid's Blog] Global Warming Basics: have investigated the possibility of abrupt climate change, in which gradual global warming triggers a sudden shift in the earth’s climate, causing parts of the world to dramatically heat up or cool down in the span of a few years.In February 2004, consultants to the Pentagon released a report laying out the possible impacts of abrupt climate change on national security. In a worst-case scenario, the study concluded, global warming could make large areas of the world uninhabitable and cause massive food and water shortages, sparking widespread migrations and war.While this prospect remains highly speculative, many of global warming’s effects are already being observed —

 [The Sietch Blog] Electric Cars Could Save $142 Billion Dollars In Heath Care Costs ...: The study, conducted by TIAX LLC, a consulting firm specializing in transportation and alternative fuels research, also found that California can avoid at least $2.2 billion per year in health costs from reduction of dangerous particulate matter by converting the motor vehicle fleet to ZEVs instead of relying on the lowest emitting gasoline technologies. This reduction in particulates means that California would annually avoid 300 cases of premature death, over 260 cases of chronic bronchitis, over 7,000 asthma attacks and more than 18,000 cases of upper and lower respiratory symptoms by moving to ZEV technology.

[Hybrid Car Blog - Everything about hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid vehicles] Chinese fuel shortages: The need for hybrid tax credits?: Yesterday, I posted studies demonstrating America's increasing demand for fuel efficiency, and the desire for more fuel efficient automobiles. Yet, other studies indicate that while American consumers definitely want more efficient vehicles, they don't want to pay any extra costs for such autos - even if those costs are more than recovered during the life of the vehicle.

[My Biodiesel Blog] From Green Car Congress - Southern California Gas Co., SDG&E To ...: As these vehicles reach the end of their useful lives, they will be replaced with CNG and hybrid-electric vehicles. The alternative-fueled vehicles should reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from 20% to 50% compared with conventional .

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