renewable energy
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Mike Koenigs is also a true Tesla and clean power activist
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Endurance Racing Sans Gasoline: Biodiesel Runs At Nurburgring
The VLN is a race series held in Germany each year where the cars speed around the grueling Nurburgring-Nordschleife, a track often nicknamed the ‘Green Hell’ because it’s surrounded by pristine green hills but is also one of the toughest and most intensive of its kind anywhere in...
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Researchers: 100 Percent Green Energy Possible By 2050
We approach energy policy with care here, since GreenCarReports is largely about ... well, cars. But a recent article claims it could take just 40 years to convert the bulk of the world's global energy usage from fossil fuels to renewable energy, primarily wind and solar power. That's not only...
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Oil Exec Says Electric-Car Batteries 'Not Ready for Primetime'
It's always good to hear the arguments against electric cars. Some are valid, some are idiotic, and some simply betray a lack of knowledge about how the auto industry really works. Into that last category may go some comments by one William M. Colton, ExxonMobil’s vice president for corporate...
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2011 Detroit Auto Show Video: BYD On Renewable Energy Generation
Where is Noah's Ark to save human beings? People pass their eyes drilling into the Earth up to the sky. Each loop of human civilization is closely linked to the exploitation of solar energy—even coal and petroleum. Since sunshine is vital to everything, why human beings don't obtain energy...
Bengt Halvorson -
GM Looks Local For $40M Carbon-Reduction Initiative
General Motors [NYSE: GM] stock might be up for initial public offering today under the same stock symbol as before, but the company is trying hard to show that it's not the same company in many respects. "We'll do that by demonstrating that GM is doing things differently," said CEO Dan Akerson...
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If you think that manufacturers have a hard time making EVs appeal to consumers who have got used to over a hundred years of fossil fuels, then feel grateful you aren't in Carlos Ghosn's shoes. The Renault and Nissan chief is visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the hope of establishing a partnership with the country's governments to open the door to selling the 2011 Nissan Leaf. The tricky part? The UAE's main export, in common with many Middle Eastern nations, is oil. So how do you wean a nation whose fortune is invested in oil onto a car that doesn't use a single drop of the stuff?...
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Around The World In 80 Days... On Renewable Electricity
Electric vehicles might not be the first mode of transport you'd think of to drive around the world, but that's what the five teams taking part in the Zero Race have just set off to achieve. Starting from the Swiss capital city Geneva, the teams will cover 30,000 kilometers (18,650 miles) on their...
Antony Ingram -
Solar Array, Lithium Cells To Power Part of Ford Focus Plant
Many houses, stores, and factories across the U.S. now have arrays of photovoltaic solar cells mounted on their roofs. These days, that's hardly news. But Ford's announcement that it will install half a megawatt of power-generating solar panels at its Wayne, Michigan, assembly plant has a new...
John Voelcker