GENEVA — The Toyota GT 86 and its twin sister, the Subaru BRZ, are not really new. The two automakers, which developed the cars together, showed them off in Tokyo after three years of concepts upon concepts. But the GT 86 is still the most exciting c…
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Mar 01
Get Ready for E-Bikes!
Greener than cars and healthier than the tube, the ‘e-bike’ looks set to become one of 2012′s top travel trends
As concerns about congestion, carbon and cost continue to grow, more and more people in the…
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Green Blog: Enlisting Nanoparticles to Help Replace Oil
A company tries to make natural gas vehicles more practical by incorporating new materials into the high-pressure storage tanks, making them lighter and stronger.
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California sets tough new clean car standards
The U.S. state that takes climate change most seriously—California—has unanimously approved new rules dubbed the Advanced Clean Cars program to lower carbon emissions, reduce oil dependence, mitigate health impacts from pollution, and save …
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: 6 More Coal Plants to Close
FirstEnergy says it would not be cost-effective to install scrubbing technology at aging plants to meet new federal emissions rules.
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Biofuel breakthrough: kelp could power cars
Scientists have devised a new way to produce ethanol directly from seaweed, offering the potential to generate biofuels that don’t compete with terrestrial food production and won’t suck up scarce freshwater, reports a study published today in Science.
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Posting: Posting — Charging Stations Await Cars
Manhattan started out with a mere handful of public charging stations for electric vehicles. It now has more than 50.
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Zoopharmacognosy: how self-healing animals could save humans
As humans we take many things for granted. When we come down with a sore throat, a fever, or the dreaded stomach flu, we drag our aching bodies into our cars and visit the doctor. Animals have no such luxury. Instead they have mastered evolution and h…
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Green Blog: U.S. Formalizes Fuel Economy Standard
Proposed fuel standards will slash oil consumption by four billion barrels and cut greenhouse gas pollution by two billion metric tons over the lifetimes of the 2017-to-2025 models, the administration says.
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Smart Phones and Fuel Efficiency
In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about t…
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