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Yokohama dB Super E-spec orange oil-infused tires now on sale
Yokohama debuted its new ADVAN ENV-R1 orange oil-infused racing tire at the Porsche GT3 Challenge at Sebring a few months back. At the time, the company promised to have new tires using the eco-friendly technology on the market for consumer use in short order. Apparently, that time is now. According to Dan King, Yokohama vice president of sales: The eco-focused dB Super E-spec mixes sustainable orange oil and natural rubber to drastically cut the use of petroleum, without compromising performance. It also helps consumers save money at the gas ... Read more →
It's Friday: Spanish artist creates staged traffic jam Jeremy Korzeniewski
Maider López's traffic art - Click above for image gallery Art may be the last thing in the world the average person thinks about when sitting idle in a major traffic jam, but Spanish ...
Efficient air conditioning could potentially save billions of gallons of gas Jeremy Korzeniewski
The U.S. Department of Transportation and National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) are hard at work developing new ways to make the air conditioners more efficient and reduce the interior tempteratures ...
American Le Mans Series partners with Nature Conservancy to protect acres in California Sebastian Blanco
The American Le Mans Series has made greening their image and events a part of the plan since at least 2007, when the organization got serious about biofuels. Last year, the group held the first ...
Fortune ranks GM's PUMA as #1 business blunder of 2009 [w/POLL] Sebastian Blanco
PUMA - Click above for high-res image gallery Someone at Fortune noticed that 2009 is now officially half over, and thought it was a good time to look back and pick out the absolute dumbest ...
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eBay Find of the Day: Mammoth 1930s Harris steam-powered split-window prototype 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
Harris Steam Car - Click above for high-res image gallery Now here's just the thing to mix up with a heated-up Flattie, or better yet, a Rajo Model T powerplant, which would be perfectly authentic for the vintage. Oh sure, purists will argue that this artifact, which apparently started life as ...
REPORT: Thieves make off with $2 million worth of oil and gas in Texas 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
How many barrels of oil do you think you could steal in a month, y'know, if you were into that sort of thing? Ten people in West Texas were arrested recently for stealing about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate and a local sheriff said that the thieves were able to steal 8,000 barrels of ...
Fiat's eco:Drive wins award for defining new car-driver relationship 1 day ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of Jodie Kidd with the Fiat eco:Drive Ever hear of an advertising award given to a piece of software that helps drivers save gas at the pumps? That's what Fiat's eco:Drive recently did, and the organizers of the Cannes Cyber Lions, a major event in the ...
In the future, we'll all be driving electric ... shopping carts? 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
LOLrioKart - Click above to watch the video after the break Why waste a perfectly good used shopping cart when it can be recycled into something fun? Seeking to definitively answer that question is a twenty-year-old MIT student named Charles Guan who normally spends his free time building ...
Detroit 2010 Preview: good news for fans of the smelly basement forest 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
NAIAS Ecoxperience - Click above for high-res image gallery The Detroit Auto Show, known officially as the North American International Auto Show, is always the biggest car show of the year. In 2009, though, the event wasn't quite as busy or as populated as it's been in past years. The whole ...
REPORT: U.S. to get four versions of Fiat 500 by 2011, no word on hybrid 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Fiat 500C - Click above for high-res gallery Fiat is confirming that the U.S. will be getting four versions of the Fiat 500 by 2011. The tiny 500 is the only Fiat model that has been officially greenlighted for American consumption under the Fiat banner. Other models will likely show up as ...
REPORT: Toyota iQ to underpin smartly dressed Aston Martin Cygnet 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Toyota iQ-based Aston Martin Cygnet concept Even supercar and luxury GT makers are finally starting to think green. Bentley is trying out E85 and possibly working on a hybrid. Same goes for Ferrari. Lamborghini is even adopting solar power, at least for its factory. The latest premium brand to ...
Congratulations! Rise in CO2 emissions halved 5 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Congratulations! You've done it! Your hard work and effort to reduce your carbon footprint last year has paid off and, we would like to think, Planet Earth is just a little bit happier to hear that the worldwide rise in CO2 levels slowed by half in 2008. Now, we understand that just slowing the ...
German town of Vauban basically bans all cars 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Like the idea of car-free streets? Bicycle riders the world over can probably see the appeal, but in the town of Vauban, German, the car-free lifestyle is being taken up by pretty much everyone. Since the early 1990s, residents have been moving away from cars and into alternatives like public ...
It's Friday: Oddball sidecar outfits redefine the word 'hybrid' 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Vespa-based sidecar - Click above for high-res image gallery There's more than one way to attach a sidecar to a motorcycle. Proving that point are the three oddball machines you see here. We're a bit partial to the Vespa you see above for the absolute potential of zero-emissions motoring ...
Lights Out: Guerilla Drive-In uses BMW sidecar motorcycle to host secret movie screenings 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
As hardcore as they come, Che Guevarra's image has been transformed by the very capitalism he railed against into something non-threatening enough that the totem has been given a pair of 3-D spectacles and serves as a logo for a rebel band of film enthusiasts. In sharp contrast to what the ...
$6.5 billion Chinese hybrid-electric car plant for Mississippi up in the air 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Might a $6.5 billion hybrid-electric car factory be coming to Mississippi? Depending on what happens with a lawsuit that has shone light on the previously unknown deal, we think it's a definite maybe. Or maybe not (c'mon, we're bloggers, not soothsayers). Apparently, quiet plans had been afoot to ...
Indonesian bicycle builds up steam, can go 75 mph 10 days ago on AutoblogGreen
We've seen bicycles powered by batteries, fuel cells and even human strength here at ABG but the "R-01 NAN" may be our first look at a contemporary steam-powered bicycle. Sure, we knew they existed but we never imagined someone would think that riding around with both a furnace and a tank full ...
Toyota's push to build green cars may destroy 17th century Japanese rice paddies 11 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Toyota has worked hard to cultivate its image as the "green" automaker. And, with so many hybrids on the road, it can back its claim up. Still, some critics have cited the fact that mining for battery components is bad for the environment and the thousands of miles that massive, CO2-spewing ships ...
It's Friday: you, too, can buy a $300 Tesla Roadster with exhaust pipes 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Tesla Style kids car - Click above for image gallery This isn't the first time we've seen a toy representation of the Tesla Roadster, but it is the strangest. First, the good news: it's all-electric (mega points for authenticity) and it's quite cheap, at least comparatively, at just $229. It's ...
MIT working to eliminate phantom traffic jams [w/VIDEO] 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Phantom traffic jam - Click above to watch the video after the break Seriously, how irritating is it when traffic inexplicably comes to a grinding halt for no apparent reason before starting right back up with no trace of a cause? Not only are these so-called phantom traffic jams the bane of ...
Caption contest: the sustainable smart fashion headscratcher 15 days ago on AutoblogGreen
colette and smart collection - Click above for high-res image gallery A lot of people, when they see the smart fortwo ask "What is that?" We're used to the fortwo's diminutive style, but we're less sure how to engage with smart latest fashion collection. Available soon if not already, smart and ...
Ford of Europe wins "Green Supply Chain" award for using more barges, trains 21 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Ford of Europe was given a "Green Supply Chain" award thanks to reducing its CO2 emissions along its manufacturing processes. The key factor for Ford in getting this prize was the marque's reduction in truck hauling: Last year, Ford of Europe used 64 percent more sea and river mileage for its ...
Rush Limbaugh: cancel that GM boycott [w/caveat] 22 days ago on AutoblogGreen
To the 35 percent of AutoblogGreen readers who answered in our poll that Rush's "Boycott GM" idea was a solid one, we have bad news to report: it's not going to happen. In fact, according to the right wing radio host, there never was a boycott to begin with. Limbaugh said yesterday on his radio ...
REPORT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister says OPEC won't increase production until prices hit $100/barrel 22 days ago on AutoblogGreen
America might get most of its oil from Canada, but the moves that OPEC makes still reverberate here. Thus, a statement by the Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed al-Abdullah al-Sabah to reporters yesterday probably won't help decrease domestic gasoline prices any time soon. OPEC's al-Sabah said that ...
Rush Limbaugh calling for boycott of GM products 24 days ago on AutoblogGreen
As if things weren't bad enough. Rush Limbaugh used to love GM, at least the company's gas-guzzlers. Now that the General has become "Government Motors," Limbaugh is rallying his Dittoheads to boycott GM products. Limbaugh is joined in his quest by fellow rightwing pundit Hugh Hewitt and, for now, ...
Hertz updates European Green Collection, all models now <140g/km of CO2 25 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Over in Europe, Hertz has updated its "Green Collection" rental car fleet. The expanded fleet is available in more countries and all of the vehicles that fall under the "green" banner have CO2 emissions below 140 g/km and more than half of the available cars are below 120 g/km. Those sub-120 g/km ...
Spy Shots: Rolls Royce Mini one-off 27 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Park Lane Rolls Royce MINI - click for gallery People love to imagine bigger and better things for the long-running MINI. Whether it's a new Speedster version or a revived MINI Moke, the platform inspires daydreaming. Apparently, it aspires, too, to a more pimed out existence. Rumors of a ...
Boris Johnson to welcome the 2009 Eco-Rally from Brighton to London 28 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The traditional London to Brighton Veteran Car Run marks the abolition of the 'Red Flag Act' that required motorized vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot. However, now there's an Eco-rally taking place next Monday the 8th that will follow the same route but in reverse and to bring alternative ...
Asheville, NC students wash cars to raise money to convert one to electric power 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
Getting to own an electric car can be expensive. The bar looks even higher if you're a group of high school students. Students at the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville, NC decided to use cars to buy a car. They held a car wash that raised money to convert a 1993 Mazda B2600 pickup ...
A single container ship may emit as much as 50 million cars 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
Governments around the world have been cracking down on emissions from cars in recent years trying to reduce noxious and greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, even if all the cars on the planet were completely eliminated from the roads, less than 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and far ...
Meet Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. lobbyist [VIDEO] 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
"If you know yourself but not your enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." In an effort to follow the advice of Art of War author, Sun Tzu, the good folks over at Streetfilms, the video arm of the Livable Streets Initiative, wanted to learn more about the people engaged in ...
Exxon CEO: "Alternative" just means finding new ways to burn fossil fuels 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
Here's a good one. How would you define alternative energy? Solar power? Wind turbines? Recycling waste grease into biodiesel? Well, if you're Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon, then "alternative" energy has a very special meaning. The Dallas Morning News heard Tillerson say the following during the ...
One lucky Hoosier gets ethanol, wins the lottery 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
Don't say ethanol never paid off for anyone. Summitville, Indiana resident Pamela Smith stopped off to buy E85 earlier this month and dropped a few bucks into the Indiana lottery. Luck was with her, and she won the $2.5 million Hoosier Lotto jackpot. "I was looking for Ethanol gas," Smith in a ...
Starting Early: Cub Scouts build derby cars from recycled materials 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
It's never too early to begin teaching kids the merits of an eco-friendly lifestyle. This point was driven home by members of Cub Scouts packs 294 and 261, who were recently tasked with the responsibility of creating full-size derby carts completely from recycled materials. Says Patrick Martin, ...
Which electric car comany is Kleiner Perkins betting millions on next? 1 month ago on AutoblogGreen
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Fisker Karma The last time we heard about the goings on at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers it was as part of Fisker's 85 million VC funding announcement. Kleiner Perkins is saying it has more money to put into the electric-drive vehicle field, ...
