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Efficient air conditioning could potentially save billions of gallons of gas
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 in our cars and trucks. What's the big deal? Apparently, a whopping seven billion gallons of gasoline are used each and every year in the United States alone to run automotive AC units, which represents 5.5-percent of the country's fuel use. Burning that fuel emits more than 58 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Surely, then, ... Read more →
Catalyx uses landfill gas to make green hydrogen and nanofibers Xavier Navarro
Catalyx Nanotech has announced that they have successfully used landfill gas (LFG) obtained from a closed southern California landfill to produce 0.5 Kg of high-value Platelet Graphite Nanofibers and ...
Columnist: Plug-in cars are the new ethanol-style boondoggle Sebastian Blanco
Peapod - click above for high-res image gallery The amount of money that the U.S. federal government poured into corn ethanol is legendary. Today, we're left with a floundering ethanol economy and ...
T3 Motion introduces three-wheeled CT3 personal commuter, plans to enter Auto X Prize Jeremy Korzeniewski
T3 Motion CT3 - Click above to enlarge T3 Motion, creators of the Segway-esque non-balancing T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle for police and security use, has just issued a press release ...
Cash for Clunkers to officially begin July 23rd Jeremy Korzeniewski
When President Obama signed the Cash-for-Clunkers bill into law back on June 24th, the Transportation Department was given 30 days to set the official rules and regulations for the program that put ...
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Toyota stung by possible Prius HID headlight defect 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery We'd wager that the last thing Toyota wants in the midst of the super-important launch of its new third-generation Prius is a negative stigma attached to the previous model. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the Japanese automaker may ...
EPA reverses decision, approves California's greenhouse gas emissions waiver 3 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The saga of California's greenhouse gas waiver has come to an end with the EPA deciding that the state can indeed enforce its own GHG emissions standards for new motor vehicles. This means that, at least between now (with current model year vehicles) and when the 2012 MY vehicles arrive, California ...
Is XP Vehicles' inflatable car just a lot of hot air? 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
It's has been a while since we heard any news about the inflatable car from XP Vehicles but it seems they are still out there and still planning to take the auto industry by storm. Freshly featured on the cover of Product Design & Development (PDD), the concept vehicle that doesn't employ ...
Former Tesla marketing chief headed to Coda Automotive? 4 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Coda sedan - Click above for high-res image gallery Could it be that the former head of marketing and communications at Tesla Motors is heading over to a similar position at the company formerly known as Miles Automotive's new Coda Automotive brand? If 2 + 2 still equals 4 then we're pretty ...
House now considering doubling $25 billion DOE ATVM program 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The other day, Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president of sustainability, environment and safety engineering, said, "If they (the DOE) raise the appropriations from the $25 billion to the $50 billion, we qualify." At the time, we hadn't heard about any plans to increase funding for the Advanced ...
Report: Heavy trucks cleaning up faster than diesel passenger cars 6 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Freightliner Innovation Truck - Click above for high-res image gallery According to the American Trucking Association, there has been a 41 percent increase in registered large trucks and an 84 percent increase in miles traveled by large trucks from 1986 to 2006. That equals lots of diesel fuel ...
California Attorney General drops greenhouse gas suit against carmakers 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
When I started posting here way back in 2006, one of the very first stories I wrote was about the state of California filing a lawsuit against six of the largest automakers over the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The original premise was that the emissions from cars were a public ...
Obama signs Cash-for-Clunkers bill into law, countdown to start begins 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
President Obama has taken pen to paper and signed off on Cash-for-Clunkers, a law that could help the auto industry shake its year-long funk. The Transportation Department now has 30 days to determine the rules and regulations for Cash-for-Clunkers, placing the start of the program at the end of ...
GAO says truly clean plug-in hybrids need to be powered by alternatives to coal plants 7 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The long tailpipe. The longer you've been interested in cleaner cars that come with a plug, the more chance there is you've heard about this topic and thought of ways to mitigate the effect of the resources that are being consumed elsewhere to move your wheels. Solar and wind are two obvious clean ...
$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 ...
Electric airplane to debut at Oshkosh [w/VIDEO] 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Yuneec E430 electric airplane - Click above for high-res image gallery It isn't the first electric airplane we've seen, nor is it the fastest. It's not even the first one to be shown at the annual EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. What makes the Yuneec E430 unique is that it may be the first fully-enclosed ...
GM will do "heavy lifting" toward plug-in goal [w/POLL] 8 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high-res gallery It's going to be awfully tough to hit President Obama's stated goal of one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. After all, that's just over five years away and there aren't actually any affordable plug-in-capable vehicles available ...
eGrandPrix in America: Your chance to race an electric motorcycle 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Brammo Enertia TTR race bike - Click above for high-res image gallery The officials behind the just-completed TTXGP on the famed Isle of Man and the upcoming zero-emissions motorcycle race at the Mid Ohio race track in America have issued an invitation to anyone with an electric motorcycle that ...
REPORT: GM persuing Chrysler for repayment of Two-Mode Hybrid development 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
In a case that's sure to light up our own comments section along with untold numbers of message boards across the web, our friends at PickupTrucks.com are reporting that General Motors has filed documents in court in an attempt to get New Chrysler to honor its full pre-bankruptcy debt of $531,275 ...
Toyota Prius ad campaign most liked by TV viewers (w/VIDEO) 9 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2010 Toyota Prius Harmony commercial - Click above to watch the video after the break By now, we've all probably seen the commercials from Toyota's latest marketing campaign for the 2010 Prius hybrid... and we've all probably developed an opinion on them. Any time an advertising campaign is as ...
Chu: all American cars should be E85 capable 10 days ago on AutoblogGreen
In early May, the U.S. DOE announced a $786.5 million "third-generation" biofuel program. Yesterday, ex-biofuel researcher Stephen Chu, the Energy Secretary, said that all cars made in America should be able to burn ethanol (E85). Earlier this month, Chu said electric vehicles were "inevitable." Chu ...
Demand for VW Jetta TDI remains strong in U.S. 11 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI - Click above for high-res image gallery Volkswagen seems to have a nice success story on its hands in the form of the latest Jetta TDI. In April, VW moved 2,253 Jetta TDIs. Last month, that number surged to 3,862, which accounts for about 36-percent of total Jetta ...
STUDY: The way to profits in Detroit? Make fuel efficient cars 11 days ago on AutoblogGreen
According to a new study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the Detroit three automakers need to make major changes in their current corporate cultures if they truly want to reverse their fortunes, and that will likely require new leadership. Says Walter McManus, ...
Drive your green vehicle at Laguna Seca during Refuel 11 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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Analysts: There's no guarantee that cash-for-clunkers will really drive car sales 11 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Now that the cash-for-clunkers bill is ready for the President's signature, attention is turning to how much of an impact the negotiated bill will actually have on car sales. There are a lot of positive stories about the bill floating around - headlines say the bill might "jumpstart US auto sales" ...
Zero X vs Quantya Track electric off-road shoot out 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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CARB asks DOE to restore hydrogen vehicle funds 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Hydrogen cars in Vancouver - click above for high-res image gallery The U.S. Department of Energy under President Obama hasn't been kind to hydrogen vehicles in 2009. In early May, the DOE eliminated funding for research into H2-powered vehicles. Since then, the hydrogen vehicle industry has ...
Ethanol scam going on in Virginia? 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The Virginia State Agriculture Department is investigating gas stations that might be selling people bad gas. In this case, "bad" means too much ethanol. While the maximum percentage of ethanol that can be blended with unleaded fuel in that state is 10 percent, some people claim that some stations ...
Senate passes Cash for Clunkers, sends it to President's desk for approval 14 days ago on AutoblogGreen
The hotly-debated Cash for Clunkers legislation is on its way to President Obama's desk tonight, oddly enough as part of a larger bill that will continue funding the military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. After a late Republican-backed effort to halt the passage of the bill failed, the Senate ...
Jesse James successfully sets new hydrogen land-speed record 15 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Earlier this month, we caught wind of Jesse James' plan to set a new land-speed record in a hydrogen-powered vehicle. According to a press release issued by Spike TV, the daredevil motorcycle enthusiast was successful in his quest, hitting a top speed of 199.7 miles per hour on a run in the El ...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept gets a steal of a deal on MINI E lease 15 days ago on AutoblogGreen
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House narrowly passes scaled-back 'Cash-for-Clunkers' legislation 16 days ago on AutoblogGreen
After the House and Senate agreed on the terms of a cut-down version of the Cash for Clunkers legislation, it passed the house on Tuesday by a narrow margin (226-202) after being added as a supplemental appropriations bill to continue funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Per the previous ...
Pennsylvania senator introduces bill to add motorcycles to Cash for Clunkers 17 days ago on AutoblogGreen
Harley-Davidson Nightster - Click above for high-res image gallery US Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-PA) has introduced legislation into the Senate that would add motorcycles to the controversial Cash for Clunkers program that was recently passed by both the US House and Senate, though with ...
Ford drops 'SFE' label from fuel-efficient trucks 18 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2009 Ford F-150 SFE - Click above for high-res image gallery Back in the summer of 2008, fuel prices hit their highest peak in U.S. history and automakers responded with a raft of new cars and trucks designed to eke as many miles from a single gallon of fuel as possible. Not surprisingly, Ford ...
Get smart: first U.S. incentive to buy a fortwo now available 18 days ago on AutoblogGreen
2008 smart fortwo - Click above image for high-res gallery Penske Automotive Group, distributors of the smart fortwo here in the United States, recorded an impressive 24,622 total sales of the diminutive city car in 2008, and dealers widely reported that they could have sold even more had they ...
KBB: Shoppers likely to change vehicle choices as gas prices rise 18 days ago on AutoblogGreen
In case you fill up your gas tank so infrequently that you hadn't noticed (lucky you!), fuel prices here in the United States are on their way back up. According to a recent Kelley Blue Book study, 87-percent of new-car shoppers said they thought gas prices would go much higher. Seems like the ...
