October 16, 2009 – 5:41 pm
The Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid. It is touted as the most advanced minivan ever created. You can put either gasoline it, or hydrogen, doesn’t matter which. (Different tanks. Can’t mix gasoline and hydrogen in the same tank. Bad news.) It runs on both. If you fill it with hydrogen, it becomes a zero-emissions vehicle, [...]
September 18, 2009 – 10:12 pm
Never heard of a Fisker Karma before? That’s because it’s a new startup company, and their cars haven’t hit the road yet. It is a luxury sedan, with a price tag close to $90,000. Doable by the rich, and with only its very first model coming out next year, bound to decrease in price as [...]
September 3, 2009 – 11:20 am
We know, we know, electric cars use too much rare earth metals. We just wrote about it below. But that’s not going to stop us from covering the next ultra cool electric triple hybrid diesel plugin etc. tour de force vehicle. That’s just what we need. All these companies coming out with zero emission stuff [...]
September 3, 2009 – 10:31 am
Every time we come up with a solution to some environmental problem, we end up causing another one. The batteries that run both hybrids and electric cars? They contain rare elements known as heavy earths, and these metals are extremely hard to come by. If you check out the periodic table here, three of the [...]
Looks like the world is waking up from it’s gasoline gorging party. Slowly, but surely. The latest step happened just today, with Nissan’s unveiling of its 2010 Leaf. (Get the title now?) It’s a cute little hatchback, but it’s not a clown car, as it comfortably seats 4 to 5 people (depending on tush size, [...]
As unbelievable as this may sound, cars running on water are just about to be become reality – that’s on condition that the major oil companies and car manufacturer don’t try to “kill” the idea first. And what makes this story even more intriguing is that people who try to develop such an idea are [...]
It’s much less expensive than regular refined gasoline, and they won’t let your car into a below ground shopping mall parking lot if you have this installation, but at least half a million cars and trucks in the USA have already been converted to run on liquefied propane gas, otherwise known as LPG. From an [...]
This is an interesting video of the Chevy Volt, GM’s electric and gas assisted vehicle proving once again that the people that ran GM should not be allowed near any business. This vehicle can travel for 40 miles before it uses gas and if you travel less then that on a daily basis then the [...]
It looks like an ordinary street or dirt bike, and TV personality Jay Leno owns one. But compared to a gasoline driven one it’s a very different set of wheels. The Zero X totally electric motorbike may help solve our desire for clean, environmentally friendly transportation. Developed in California, where environmental transportation problems have been [...]
Ever since Honda introduced its Civic model hybrid car, it never seemed to get the attention of Toyota’s Prius, which was always rated first in both design and economy, over the Hondas model which used the same Civic body style and had less fuel economy. All this may be changing, however, as Honda’s engineering and [...]
