Recent Comments:
Chrysler's Jim Press making big claims for upcoming EVs {Autoblog Green}
Sep 11th 2008 4:19PM By the time it gets to a dealer showroom it will look like a warmed-over Prius, same as the Volt:-(
Will lithium battery costs ever come down? {Autoblog Green}
Aug 25th 2008 5:22PM I'm reminded of the Simon/Ehrlich wager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager
Lotus announces Safe and Sound hybrid demonstrator {Autoblog Green}
Aug 5th 2008 12:05PM Seems to me that it would be cheaper and less of a hassle all around to sell 'moving car spotters' to blind people. Something that worked by Sonar or Radar or somesuch and identified large, metallic moving objects then gave a sound signal to the wearer that would encode speed, direction and distance information (stereo doppler noise maybe).
That's gotta be cheaper than requiring that every quiet car (of which there should eventually be far more than there are blind people) be outfitted with yet another doodad.
Walking Head Robot uses infrared and pistons for terror and submission {Engadget}
Jul 9th 2008 4:34PM That think looks familiar. I think I've seen it's grand-daddy on the big screen: http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/228/483/22/tsbftoy.jpg
Fuel sipping station wagons sold in Europe {Autoblog Green}
Jun 16th 2008 10:32AM I wonder what kind of acceleration these things get...
Traffic vibration on bridge generates electric power {Autoblog Green}
Jun 11th 2008 10:47AM I have to wonder how cost effective this is. Even if the hardware is cheap, what about maintenance? It'll have to cope with wind, rain, pollution, and guano. If the costs of installing and maintaining the system exceed the cost of an equivalent amount of electricity that would have to be purchased from other sources, then this is just a wasteful PR stunt.
eBay Find of the Day: 1980 AMC Hornet electric car {Autoblog Green}
May 16th 2008 10:53AM I wonder if putting in a small ICE/alternator package and replacing the batteries would be enough to bring it up to decent performance specs. Anyone know?
Blue Sun Biodiesel moves headquarters to LEED certified building {Autoblog Green}
May 5th 2008 2:56PM "Blue Sun"? As in "two by two, hands of blue"?
:-)
Penny-pinching Seth Green happy with his Prius purchase {Autoblog Green}
May 2nd 2008 10:14AM You say all that like it's a *bad* thing. What's more important, getting more efficient vehicles on the road, or getting them on the road for the "right" reasons?
Poor country in need of cash? Sell forests to trade off pollution. {Autoblog Green}
Mar 19th 2008 5:44PM "Nice forest we got here amigo...be a real shame if anything were to...happen...to it..."
