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2010 Green Car of the Year Will Be Announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show

2010 Green Car of the Year Will Be Announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show

Green Car Journal Award for Automotive Environmental Achievement Announced December 3 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 -- The winner of the 2010 Green Car of the Year (GCOY) award will be announced Dec. 3, 2009 during the Los Angeles Auto Show's Press Days. Green Car Journal, the leading automotive environmental magazine, initiat ... Continue reading

Conditions on GM's Vauxhall and Opel Sale to Canada's Magna

Conditions on GM's Vauxhall and Opel Sale to Canada's Magna

FRANKFURT/BERLIN September 10, 2009; Philipp Halstrick and Andreas Moeser writing for Reuters reported that the board of General Motors has decided to sell its European arm Opel to Canadian auto parts group Magna, but has attached strings to the sale, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. "It will be Magna, ... Continue reading

CASH FOR CLUNKERS Demonstrates the Huge Economic Potential of Alt Fuel and Vehicle Technologies

CASH FOR CLUNKERS Demonstrates the Huge Economic Potential of Alt Fuel and Vehicle Technologies

Imagine what will happen when we get off gasoline completely By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher Author’s note: This article includes several videos and text links to help illustrate the point raised herein. For a few years now, Bob Gordon and I have been preaching the urgent need for the quick adop ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Announces Its Customers and Government Agency Partners Awarded $34 Million in DOE Stimulus Grants

Clean Energy Announces Its Customers and Government Agency Partners Awarded $34 Million in DOE Stimulus Grants

SEAL BEACH, Calif.--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the award of $34 million (11% of total funding by the DOE) to customers and government agency partners of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to offset the incremental cost of more than 800 new clean-burning natural gas-powered taxis, shuttle buses, refuse truc ... Continue reading

Nissan Becomes First Automaker to Commercially Deploy Methanol Fuel Cells for Material Handling Equipment

Nissan Becomes First Automaker to Commercially Deploy Methanol Fuel Cells for Material Handling Equipment

- Methanol fuel cells reduce plant's CO2 emissions - SMYRNA, Tenn., Aug. 25 -- Nissan North America (NNA) has become the first vehicle manufacturer to commercially deploy methanol fuel cells to power its material handling equipment (tugs) at its Smyrna, Tenn., assembly plant. The methanol fuel cells from Oorja Protonic ... Continue reading

Rahm-bo? When it Comes to Real Change the President's Chief-of-Staff Should Be Called Rahm-faux

Rahm-bo? When it Comes to Real Change the President's Chief-of-Staff Should Be Called Rahm-faux

What happened to Rahm Emanuel's enthusiasm for CNG? By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL In July 2008, when President Obama’s Chief-of-Staff was a mere Congressman from Illinois and the fourth ranking House of Representatives Democrat, Rahm Emanuel sponsored Federal legislation that ... Continue reading

Natural Gas: A Bridge Fuel for the 21st Century

Natural Gas: A Bridge Fuel for the 21st Century

Center for American Progress By John Podesta, Timothy E. Wirth August 10, 2009 Download the full memo (pdf) Download a map of shale natural gas plays in the lower 48 states (pdf) Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel—it produces less than half as much carbon pollution as coal. Recent technology advancements make ... Continue reading

Automotive X PRIZE Announces Team of Automotive Experts to Lead Technical Operations for Competition

Automotive X PRIZE Announces Team of Automotive Experts to Lead Technical Operations for Competition

Automotive Experts Will Lead Judging Process in Multimillion Dollar Competition for Super Fuel Efficient Vehicles PLAYA VISTA, Calif., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a multimillion dollar competition to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles, t ... Continue reading

Ford Cites Energy Policy as Critical Factor in Shaping Future Vehicle Fleet

Ford Cites Energy Policy as Critical Factor in Shaping Future Vehicle Fleet

- Ford executive Sue Cischke cites need for continued cooperation between the automotive industry and the federal government in pursuit of greener transportation vision, noting the significant role of government in shaping the transportation fleet of the future - Ford remains committed to delivering affordable fuel eff ... Continue reading

Automotive Materials Life Cycle Assessment Model Released for Use

Automotive Materials Life Cycle Assessment Model Released for Use

Updated model evaluates the total vehicle life cycle impact of materials, powertrains, fuels and their sources, total energy consumed SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Aug. 4 -- WorldAutoSteel has released a second iteration of the automotive materials parametric Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model, which allows for broader evaluations ... Continue reading

NGVi Celebrates 20 years Advancing Use of NGVs and Natural Gas Fueling

NGVi Celebrates 20 years Advancing Use of NGVs and Natural Gas Fueling

NATURAL GAS VEHICLE INSTITUTE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS IN BUSINESS Las Vegas, NV - Natural Gas Vehicle Institute (NGVi), North America's leading provider of training and consulting services related to natural gas as a transportation fuel, is beginning its 21st year of working with fleet managers and technicians to advance t ... Continue reading

Oil Rises Above $68 For No Reason At All ...Well, There is Greed

Oil Rises Above $68 For No Reason At All ...Well, There is Greed

SINGAPORE - July 27, 2009: Oil prices rose above $68 a barrel Monday in Asia as blah blah blah blah blah. Then blah, blah, blah, blah blah. In other oil and gasoline news, yadda yadda yadda, yack, yack yack. Which means that the filthy pig OPEC ministers and their buddies at the gasoline companies decided to screw the ... Continue reading

Ford Intros Advanced Liquid Injection LPG System and Clean Diesel 2.7L Turbocharged V6 Engine

Ford Intros Advanced Liquid Injection LPG System and Clean Diesel 2.7L Turbocharged V6 Engine

MELBOURNE, Australia, July 24, 2009 – Ford Australia announced today it is investing $230 million to improve the fuel efficiency and environmental impact of its Australian-made models, including the first global application of Ford’s advanced 2.0-litre 4-cylinder EcoBoost engine in a rear-wheel drive vehicle, ... Continue reading

GM's Opel Launches Broad Dual Powered Propane and Gasoline Lineup in Europe

GM's Opel Launches Broad Dual Powered Propane and Gasoline Lineup in Europe

Opel now offers five LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) powered Corsa, Meriva, Astra station wagon and Zafira models with a wide performance range, expanding its line of environmentally friendly ecoFLEX models with alternative propulsion. ... Continue reading

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