By Frederick Carle on April 22nd, 2008
The Ford Escape Hybrid is the most efficient hybrid SUV on the market . In this video clip learn more about this Ford hybrid car , Ford’s new eco-boost technology that will launch next year. A Ford rep will also talked about Ford’s short term and long term goals to help the environment.
By Frederick Carle on April 22nd, 2008
We have been talking about the Th!nk City a few weeks back but we never would of thought this car would be coming to the U.S. market. The EV that really drives like a car will be sold for a rumored sub-$25 000 price point. It’s intended to be in showrooms in 2009. More information has come out on Reuters via Th!nk’s venture capital partners Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Rockport Capital. Ray Lane, a managing partner at Kleiner and chairman of Th!nk North America, said today “In a couple of years, we hope to be selling 30-40-50,000 cars per year.”
Th!nk’s VC partners’ high profile participation in the electric car maker’s U.S. launch is evidence of the greater attention being paid to battery electric technologies after an initial preference for biofuel development.
Via: Auto Blog Green
By Frederick Carle on April 20th, 2008
This may not be breaking news but definitely is worth mentioning. It’s probably the most advance boat on the planet. In the Sydney harbor, the Solar Sailor is a revolutionary piece of technology harnessing the wind and the sun to power itself. In other words it’s a clean and green sailing machine.
Being under the sun for an average of more that 340 days a years makes Sydney the perfect place to implant this type of technology. 8 movable solar paneled sails are used to catch the best possible combination of wind and solar power.
By Frederick Carle on April 18th, 2008
Today on the Discovery Channel, Daily Planet presented a eco-friendly race car. It can go 240 km/h on cashews and sugar beet and goes from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 4 seconds.
Eco One is 95 percent biodegradable or recyclable and all of the plastic components are made of plants, while the structural frame is made from steel, an easily reusable material.
The tires are made of potatoes and the brake pads from ground cashew shells. The body was created using hemp and rapeseed oil and it runs on fuel made from fermented wheat and sugar beet.
By Frederick Carle on April 13th, 2008
It may not be easy being green, but U.S. automakers no longer have a choice. Hobbled by declining sales, too reliant on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs for profits, they face a new law mandating a 40 percent increase in U.S. vehicle fuel economy standards by 2020.
They’ve got their work cut out for them if they want to keep up with foreign competition. By our measures, Honda was the greenest major automaker in 2007, followed by Toyota, Hyundai Kia, Volkswagen, and Nissan. Appearing at the bottom of the list: Ford Motor, General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler, in that order.
By Frederick Carle on April 11th, 2008
Could electricity become a feasible, affordable fuel for vehicles? To find out, NRC is guiding a $7 million federal R&D program on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), such as the concept car shown here, to further develop and reduce the cost of this technology. The interdepartmental program’s focus is on energy storage, electrical drive components, power train optimization, and regulations for emissions and fuel efficiency.
Hybrid electric vehicles combine an electric motor and an internal combustion engine. Plug-in hybrids have larger batteries than hybrid electric vehicles and can be recharged by the vehicle engine, by regenerative braking, or by plugging them into an electrical outlet.
By Frederick Carle on April 10th, 2008
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid concept car created by General Motors. Concept Chevy Volt is an electric vehicle with an innovative rechargeable electric drive system that runs on electricity, gasoline, E85 or biodiesel. In this video clip we take a closer look at this concept car that is scheduled to reach showrooms in late 2010.
By Frederick Carle on April 7th, 2008
From msnbc news: DETROIT – General Motors Corp showed off its progress in developing the highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt and detailed its road map for bringing the rechargeable car to the market by 2010, an ambitious timeline challenged by some rivals.
“We are moving with incredible speed,” Frank Weber, GM’s vehicle line executive in charge of the Volt, told reporters. “This project is not concept work. This program is not theory. It is reality.”
Weber said GM’s senior executives remain committed to launching the Volt by November 2010, calling the plug-in hybrid the “No. 1 priority project that we have now within GM.”
GM, which is counting on the high-mileage Volt to leapfrog Toyota’s market-leading hybrid Prius, on Thursday opened its battery research labs and design studio to dozens of journalists and analysts.
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