The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta to America’s Gulf Coast refineries. In this Climate One debate, a panel of experts argues for and against the controversial pipeline.
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Lessons from Detroit Conference on Plug-in Electric Vehicles
Posted in October 26th, 2009
by Clayton B. Cornell in Business of plugging in, electric cars, Electric Cars (EVs), Events, GM, interconnected car, Plug-in hybrid EVs, Smart Grid
If I could sum up last week’s conference on electric vehicles in a single sentence, it would be this: I’m now certain that my kids will grow up driving electric cars.
Advocates have been saying it for a while, but now all sides of the debate—including automakers, utilities, venture capitalists, and policymakers—are saying it too: electric-powered automobiles are the real deal, and we’re on the cusp of the biggest transformation in automotive history since the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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7 Car Mods That Get 100 MPG Or More
Posted in August 24th, 2009
by Jerry James Stone in 100 MPG, bio-mass, boston, Boston GreenFest 2009, Car hacks / Mods, dirigio, Events, greenfield, jory squibb, Massachusetts, MIT, moonbeam, Offbeat, one gallon challenge, Porsche, roopod, truck
Hand-built, eco-modified, and wood-powered cars raced across the Bay State this weekend driving 100 miles on just a single gallon of fuel. Aptly named the One Gallon Challenge, the event was part of a four-day long festival in Boston that celebrated clean technologies. Welcome to GreenFest 2009!
Garage-Built Car Gets 105 MPG, Cost $2,500 To Build
Frustrated with the price of filling up his Toyota, Jory Squibb built the Moonbeam. It has been to the Altwheels Festival in Boston twice and has traveled over 10,000 miles. It is powered by a 150 cc gas engine and carries two passengers “if they are on good terms,” he says.
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‘Fastest Kettle in the World’ Racing to Break 103 Year-Old Steam Powered Land Speed Record
Posted in August 19th, 2009
by Joanna Schroeder in British Steam Car, Cars, Events, Liquefied Petrolem Gas (LPG) Cars, Liquid Petroleum Gas, LPG, World Land Record
After several set backs last week, yesterday the British Steam Car Team unofficially broke the 103 year-old world steam-powered land speed record. The speed record has been held for more than a century by American Fred Marriott, who in 1906, drove a “Stanley Steamer” car 127 miles per hour (mph). The teams own calibrated equipment measured the two way average of 137.14 mph and a 48 min, 52 second turn-around.
At the wheel will be tri-national Charles Burnett III, a multimillionaire born in England to a Canadian mother and American father. The car, which looks like an over sized rocket on wheels, is nicknamed the “fastest kettle in the world”.
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Fisker Karma PHEV Makes World Driving Debut
Posted in August 17th, 2009
by Joanna Schroeder in auto industry, Events, Fisker Automotive, Karma PHEV, PHEV, Plug-in hybrid EVs
Three weeks ago, I wrote a story about the upcoming public debut of the Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). Well, it’s official. The Karma PHEV made its public driving debut over the weekend, just 19 months after being introduced as a concept car. Behind the wheel was Bernhard Koehler, co-founder and COO of Fisker Automotive. Fisker Automotive is just one of several companies, such as Bright Automotive, that have brought concept cars to market in less than two years – a feat I don’t believe any major automotive company in the states has ever accomplished.
“This demonstration represents a significant milestone for Fisker Automotive and PHEV technology,” said Fisker Automotive CEO Henrik Fisker. “The future of clean cars is bright.”
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