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Red... Yellow... GREEN! Alternative vehicles take over drag strip
Green means go. It's one of the first universal truths taught in school and it will be proven once again at the upcoming Santa Pod's Alternative Energy Race Day. According to Managing Director, David Lloyd Jones, "As a venue, we derive a great deal from Motorsport, so it's important that we do something that helps to plot the future of the sport. Somewhere in this eclectic line-up will be the genuine long-term future of Drag Racing and the direction that we all need to look toward. Trucks, cars, bikes, trikes are all welcome. Zero emissions ... Read more →
SEMA 2008: Making Green Cool Zone trucks Frank Filipponio
Click above for high-res gallery of Making Green Cool Zone trucks from SEMA We are so used to huge trucks with outlandish paint jobs at SEMA, that we barely noticed these monstrosities in one ...
Review: L.A. Premiere of Josh Tickell's "Fuel" Frank Filipponio
Josh Tickell with producer and fiancee Rebecca Harrell "America is addicted to oil...It's time for an intervention." That is the tagline for FUEL, Josh Tickell's redo of 2008's Sundance Audience ...
You can do it, too: Convert a Toyota 4runner to diesel, then to veggie oil Sebastian Blanco
Interested in a Toyota 4Runner but wish it had a diesel powerplant? In the U.S., your engine options are limited to a 4 liter V6 or a 4.7 liter V8 (and you don't get the V8 in all states). But, if ...
Michigan students power buses with veggie oil Jeremy Korzeniewski
It's no secret to the majority of our readers that it is possible to run many older diesel engines on nothing more than straight vegetable oil. In fact, the first diesel engine, invented by Rudolph ...
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AltWheels returns to Boston area next month 10 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Last year, the fifth annual AltWheels festival featured a lot of cool green car goodness - along with things like Darth Vader discussing HUMMER and a vegoil MINI. This year, the show returns to the Boston area for three days one day of greener transportation discussion and presentations, including ...
Fendt announces new greener tractors 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Although we haven't spoken too much about tractors, I think it's good to know that green technologies are improving these vehicles. Take this example, German tractor manufacturer Fendt has announced that its new lineup of Vario tractors which reach the Com III emission standards which come in effect ...
Manila Police to use WVO from McDonalds 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Police in Manila, the capitol city of the Philippines, have taken up a cool new effort in order to save some green, though they will be spreading some green in the process. It seems that the Police force will be converting its cruisers to run on a mixture of waste vegetable oil (WVO) and diesel ...
Craigslist Find of the Day: '67 Mercury Cougar with Mercedes diesel engine 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the image for high-res shots of this diesel 1967 Mercury Cougar Much of the vegetable oil and biodiesel movement centers around the classic Mercedes-Benz inline six cylinder engine, but fine examples of the genre are getting tougher to find. As is always the case with older machines, time ...
Video: Veggie oil explained easy 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Gavin Shappiro sent us a very well edited video of a green hobby: driving a 2005 Volkswagen Golf TDI with vegetable oil. As most of our readers know, converting a diesel car to run on vegetable oil is not a difficult thing to do, and virtually any diesel car can run with it. Gavin's friend Chase ...
NorthStar Moving powers their fleet with biodiesel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
California's NorthStar Moving Corporation has just converted all of its trucks to run on biodiesel fuel. All of the fuel used by the moving and storage company will now be veggie-based. Additionally, their fleet of vehicles has also been fitted with battery-powered rear lift gates as opposed to ...
The top five upcoming green events, number two: Green Grand Prix 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the 2007 Green Grand Prix entries. The fact that the Green Grand Prix makes an appearance on our list should not come as a shocker. Where else are you gonna see pod-racers (like in the picture above) racing alongside vehicles running on biodiesel, electrons, LP, CNG, hybrids, flex-fuel ...
Green Grand Prix coming to New York next week with a wood-burning SUV 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
One of the 2007 Green Grand Prix entries. Here's a race we'd like to watch. The fourth annual Green Grand Prix is coming to Watkins Glen in upstate New York in a week and a half (May 3rd). While there are some podracer-like entries (e.g., the photo above), the bulk of the vehicles are ...
Spaniards will be able to trade old veggie oil for biodiesel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The Association of Municipalities and Counties of Catalonia, Spain (ACM), has announced an agreement with Recicloil, a company that recycles used vegetable oil into biodiesel. The agreement states that the company will provide one liter of free biodiesel to citizens for each 20 liters of used oil ...
The latest solution to the hydrogen problem: biodiesel? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
This is weird. One of the easiest arguments to make against hydrogen fuel cells is that you have one too many energy conversions going on (first, you need energy to make the hydrogen, then you use the hydrogen to make electricity onboard the vehicle). Why not just use the initial energy - usually ...
Keene State College an EPA award finalist with waste oil project 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
AutoblogGreen reader Mike C wrote a comment recently about the waste-oil-to-fuel work that's going on at his school, Keene State College. I read that and thought this story deserved mention here on the main page. Whenever students are doing something clever and green, I like to share their stories ...
Instructable of the day: converting an old school bus to veggie-power 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you are reading our site, you are probably already familiar with the fact that any diesel vehicle can run on biodiesel. As a matter of fact, most any can diesel vehicle can even run on used vegetable oil with just a few modifications. There are some issues with vegetable oil which must first be ...
Networks to reuse cooking oil for biodiesel production 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Seriously: what do you do with your leftover cooking oil? Most people just pour it down the drain (not pointing any fingers, here). This is quite bad for a couple of reasons: first because it can affect waste water treatment plants and second because a potential fuel is lost. We have written a lot ...
Shell Oil to grow biofuels from marine algae 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Shell Oil formed a joint venture with HR Biopetroleum called Cellana and they plan to produce biofuels from marine algae. Shell, which owns a majority stake in the venture, will start production of a demonstration facility on the Kona coast of Hawai'i Island immediately. The production volume for ...
Mistakes in the Mythbusters' episode on fuel economy devices 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Mythbusters, a popular TV show on the Discovery Channel, tried to bust the myth that there are devices out there that can dramatically improve your fuel economy. I think Mythbusters made a lot of mistakes in the episode with claims about hydrogen, used vegetable oil and EPA testing. I also think ...
Biofuels and road taxes, the Alaska edition 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
In many places around the world, roads are financed at least in part by a tax added to the price of fuel. When we head to the pumps, we pay for a little bit of the road we drive out onto as we leave the station. But people who make their own biofuels don't pay these taxes and yet they drive on ...
Veggie Girls - six college students cross the country on vegetable oil 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Six female college students from schools across the country who call themselves the Veggie Girls decided that high gas prices and carbon emissions were old school. The new thing is finding out "just how far their vegetables can take them" and so the students, from Vassar, Stanford, Scripps, Cuesta, ...
Across Australia on 40% water and 60% waste mineral oil (Bios Fuel H2W+) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The 20th World Solar Challenge took place in Australia in October. One of the more unusual fuel types in the Greenfleet Class of the Darwin to Adelaide race was used by a "Troupy," a lightly modified 1989 Toyota Landcruiser. According to Pure Energy Systems, the diesel-engined Troupy made the 3,000 ...
Zero Rally Africa gears up for 2009 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Not a heck of a lot of information is available yet on the Zero Rally Africa, but since there's about 14 months to go before the thing kicks off, this isn't really a problem. What we do know about the rally is that it's a 4,000 km, ten-day jaunt up from Cape Town through South Africa, Namibia and ...
Arctic Vegwerks: biodiesel in Alaska has a blog 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
One thing most people know about biodiesel is that the fuel is not ideally suited for colder temperatures. This little hiccup does not (as I've mentioned before) slow down Alaska biodiesel fans. In fact, some homebrewers and VegOil advocates from the largest state in the union have just started an ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: Tell the world in shiny letters you're driving green 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Third Planet Energy's booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo caught my eye. Which is exactly what the folks there intended. In fact, Third Planet Energy's whole goal is to allow you to catch other people's eyes, through the use of chrome emblems that will upgrade your car's back end to identify ...
Escape Adventures: the world's first carbon-neutral vacation providers 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Is there anything worse when you are out enjoying nature than having the very society you are trying to get away from thrust back upon you? If so, maybe you can do something about it. Escape Adventures specializes in vacation tours "with destinations like Moab's Arches and Canyonlands, the Escalante ...
Video: Mini that runs on veg oil at AltWheels Boston 2007 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video above is Grease Car's Mini at AltWheels Boston 2007. The Mini is lime green and converted to run on vegetable oil. The diesel engine they put in the Mini was a little big, so the front of the Mini has an odd look with the tires slightly pushed out. The Mini was in a sidewalk booth but the ...
Study shows that biodiesel fumes are less nasty than diesel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Some weeks ago we posted an article about a German university comparing the fumes produced from both a diesel-powered engine and one fuelled by Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) which showed that diesel fumes were more dangerous. In the end, however, the study affirmed that it depended more on the ...
Iowa State: how sustainable is the bioeconomy? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
It is too early to know for sure what impact the growing of plants for biofuels will have on the agricultural industry. While the short-term monetary gains may well be attractive, questions abound as to what will happen with soil quality and its energy needs. Researchers at Iowa State are looking ...
TMO Renewables claims to have found the ethanol "silver bullet" 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
"We believe what we've found is not far from the silver bullet, and our demonstration plant will be about showing that. We have the organism people have dreamt of -- it eats nearly anything and it makes ethanol really quickly." - Hamish Curran TMO Renewables CEO The organism that Curran is speaking ...
TDIClub member fesses up about ruining Jetta by using VegOil 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
"Many people disappear when they screw up. I wish to 'man up' before this community with my story." This is how TDIClub forum member DuluthRooster starts a post explaining how he ran a Jetta Wagon on waste vegetable oil for about 50,000 miles but then, sadly, had a terribly negative experience and ...
Study shows that exhaust gases from veggie oil powered cars are less dangerous than regular diesel fumes 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Some cars that run on vegetable oil leave behind a smell of a fish & chips shop but one might think that the exhaust gases can't be too good for our health. In theory yes, but proof has arrived from the Bayerische Institut für Angewandte Umweltforschung und -technik (Bavarian Institute ...
AOL Autos reminds us of some alternative concept cars of the past 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
What do all of the following vehicles have in common? Chrysler Turbine Ford Maxima 1962 Ford Seattle 1961 Ford Gyron 1959 Chysler Levicar Mach I 1957 Ford Nucleon Each one of them could be considered an alternative form of transportation, depending on your definition of ...
Autobloggreen Q & A: The EcoChallenge team: To Mongolia on VegOil! 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
AutoblogGreen already covered the Europe-to-Mongolia Rally but since these guys will be running on Straight Vegetable Oil in the (sort of) competition, we and our colleagues at Autoblog en Español decided to get an interview with them. We talked about the movie they'll be making and just how ...
UK taxes on vegetable oil for vehicles makes it 50 percent cheaper than diesel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
HMRC (the UK Customs office) has announced that users of less than 2,500 litres (around 660 galons) of Pure Plant Oil (PPO or SVO in America) will no longer have to pay road fuel duty. This saves a lot of the price of fuel in the UK and makes PPO available at 52p/liter (with the other taxes ...
