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[HybridCars.com] The American Le Mans Series is perhaps the greenest of motorsport leagues. It’s the only major race series in the world in which all cars race on street legal alternative fuels, using clean low sulfur diesel, E85 ethanol or E10 gas-electric hybrid powerplants.

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[Latest Articles from BharatBhasha.com] Automobiles | A Substitute to Fuel Vehicles :: By Levi Quinn ...: As the name might suggest, a flexible fuel vehicle is one whose engine is powered by means other than the commonly used petroleum-based fuels – petrol and diesel. Typically relying on a combination of one of the above fuels and an alternative method of powering, the flexible – or “alternative” – fuel vehicle is gaining in popularity as a concept due to its potential to help reduce the impact on the environment from the automotive industry.

[GreenCar.com] Tips to Make Your Everyday Drive a ”˜Greener' Experience | GreenCar.com: You may even be able to rent a hybrid or alternative fuel vehicle that fits the mission. A growing number of rental car agencies are now offering hybrid SUVs and we’d expect clean diesel SUVs and crossover vehicles to be increasingly available as well.

[Epoch Times | All headlines] Epoch Times - ALMS COO Discusses Green Racing for Earth Day: The American Le Mans Series is the only major race series in the world in which all cars race on street legal alternative fuels, using clean low sulfur diesel, cellulosic E85, E10 ethanol-gasoline or E10 gas-electric hybrid powerplants.

[AlterNet.org: PEEK] Will California Say No to Ethanol | Environment | AlterNet: The proposal would work like this: If increased production of corn-based ethanol in the U.S. raises corn prices and accelerates the conversion of rainforests and conservations lands to farmland worldwide, greenhouse emissions and loss of the carbon sink associated with such deforestation and disruption must be counted towards the biofuel’s total emissions.

[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site] Hybrid Buick Business MPV Concept Revealed | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt ...: The next-generation GM Hybrid System will build upon the successful belt-alternator-starter hybrid technology currently available in the Buick LaCrosse Eco-Hybrid. An advanced lithium-ion battery will help make the next-generation GM Hybrid System more powerful than the current system, improving fuel economy of vehicles with this system by up to 20 percent, depending on engine and vehicle application.

[All MNN Content] Tesla: Car of the future? | MNN - Mother Nature Network: The iron nexus of the internal combustion engine and gasoline has ruled in Detroit for a century, and upstarts like Tesla .The car's innovative hybrid-electric drive greatly increases fuel economy, thus tapping the alternative fuel of efficiency.

[CNET News.com] Plug-in hybrid gets 100 mpg for first 50 miles | Planetary Gear ...: In other words, the Idea is not a highway car intended for the masses, but a light-use truck for commercial and military utility fleets. Utility trucks don't typically travel long distances and are often returned to a garage where the vehicle could be fully charged.

[Cafe Talk Aggregator] Imagine All the Big Three (Living Life in Peace) | Desidero's Blog: We had no problem subsidizing corn ethanol to the tune of 60 cents a gallon while putting on tariffs to keep cheap Brazilian ethanol out, but then we call corn farmers "Middle America" and auto workers "greedy union workers". We demand auto workers cut benefits, while latest reports have employees of bailed-out financial institutions on track to receive their highest bonuses ever.

[Wired: Autopia] Schwarzenegger Praises Green Hummer | Autopia from Wired.com: I think SUV's need to be the exclusive reign of the luxury market, where they are built using space-age technologies (think ultra-light honey-comb composites) and priced accordingly; this pseudo-tax will allow manufacturers to push forwards innovation to filter down more rapidly into other vehicle markets.

[Wheels] An Alternate-Fuel Wild Card in Fiat's Deck - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com: In Italy, Fiat is collaborating with fuel companies and the Italian government to provide more than 1,000 stations where motorists can fill their tanks with natural gas. Many cars are equipped to operate on dual fuels, switching from natural gas to the diesel or gasoline tank as needed, depending on what is available.

[Flagworld.com >> News] Flagworld.com >> News » Blog Archive » ALMS emphasizes ”green” on ...: Mayer’s address will include topics such as the MICHELIN® Green X® Challenge, the debut of the first modern era E10-electric hybrid race car, the Series’ movement toward future energy and sustainability elements, and its corporate mandate to remain a leader in relevant and innovative technology as it pertains to more efficient vehicles for the transportation sector.

[GreenBiz.com Green Business News] Ford: 'Boosting and Downsizing is Our Strategy' | Matthew Wheeland ...: With the exception of that last option, Ford is developing cars for every possible solution on the table. It's the company's strategy to .

[Hybrid Cars] Hybrid Cars: Playing tough with Detroit. Is a gas tax next?: If Obama announced his support for the creation of a 15 billion dollar a year Federal Synfuel Corporation to make the US totally independent of petroleum within the next 20 or 30 years, I think the American people would be all for it.

[Hybrid Car] Hybrid Car » Blog Archive » A car without Petrol: The greatest success in using alternative fuels have made South American country where a significant portion of vehicles already illicit ethanol E-85 (85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) or diesel fuel derived from crops. Specifically for this market, the German company Bosch has developed a management system Bosch Flex Fuel, which allows the car engine running on ethanol and gasoline mixed in any proportions (the system of the award of Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil).

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