Water Conservation Via Waterless Car Wash

The concept of a waterless car wash may sound a bit dubious, but there are actually products on the market designed to clean cars without a water-spewing hose. ‘The EPA states that cleaning a vehicle using soap and a water hose, can waste up to 116 gallons of water per car wash. Even an automatic [...]

Electric Mini in the Works

I don’t write about cars too often, but the ‘Mini’ is one of my favorites, so I thought I’d include it in today’s posts, especially since an all-electric model is in the making. Of course, an electric vehicle is only truly green if your source of electricity is from clean renewable energy, but the zero-emissions [...]

San Jose Gives the Green Light for Electric Car Plant

San Jose’s city council unanimously approved a plan to allow Tesla Motor’s 600,000 sq. ft. electric car manufacturing plant to be built on public land within the city. It fits right into the city’s environmental initiatives aimed at making San Jose “the center for clean-tech innovation”.

Green Workshops for West Virginia Small Businesses

Small businesses in West Virginia can gain valuable insight into green building and energy efficient concepts, as well as biofuels production and renewable energy, at the “Advancing Sustainable Development” workshop series this month in Beckley.

Why Your Car Doesn’t Get 50 MPG

Newsweek has a good article about why automakers are not yet mass producing cars for the United States market that get 50 miles per gallon. It might seem ludicrous to you that there isn’t a mass market right here and now for a 50mpg car. For crying out loud, we’ve entered the age of the [...]

Plug In, Drive

The evolution of hybrid cars will be plug-in hybrids. In the coming years (I can’t use the word “soon” because 2010 looks to be the earliest the cars will be available to the general public.), automakers will bring “plug-in technology to the mainstream.” As the name implies, the batteries of plug-in vehicles can be charged [...]

Save a Million Barrels of Oil Today

It’s estimated that if US drivers slowed down a little, kept their tires inflated to the proper pressure (check your owner’s manual or the information placard attached to the vehicle door edge, door post, glove-box door, or inside of the trunk lid), and reduced their driving by 5%, US oil consumption would drop by 1.3 [...]

Kudzu As a Biofuel

EcoGeek has a post about Kudzu’s potential as a biofuel. For anyone that has driven in the Southern US, you’ve seen Kudzu in all it’s “glory”. The vine overruns everything. There is so much of this stuff already everywhere that, if the people smarter than me can solve the negatives, the American south can become [...]

Think’s electric cars are coming to America

Think Global is a Norwegian electric car company with plans to start selling its existing models in the United States next year. In 2011, they plan to roll out their next-generation model, the Th!nk OX. The Ox can go up 155 miles on a single charge and the lithium-ion batteries can be charged to 80% [...]

Honda’s hydrogen fuel cell car now in production

The Honda FCX Clarity is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, which converts hydrogen and oxygen into electricity. Only a few dozen will be available for lease and only in Southern California (where they actual have some hydrogen fuel stations). Source: MSNBC

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