Biofuels
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If you watch TV or read the papers, you'll see lots of coverage of people who are pretty unhappy with one facet or another of the U.S. government. This post is about something government seems to do relatively well: pre-commercial research and development. Here at GreenCarReports.com, we usually cover specific green cars, most of them now on sale or coming within a year or two. Once in a while, though, we look at some of the broader research on green cars and renewable energy. The Argonne National Laboratory--one of a network of 17 national labs funded by the Department of Energy--has a slew...
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Want To Go Even Greener? Power Your Prius on...Algae ?!?!?
There's something about the Toyota Prius that makes people want to modify it. Maybe it's the Hybrid Synergy Drive system, maybe it's the electric running, maybe it's even the car's shape. We're not quite sure. Now, joining the growing parade of Prius plug-in conversions (whether professional or...
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Hybrid Ferrari To Launch At LA Auto Show In December?
It's obviously green supercar day here at GreenCarReports. No sooner had we written about Lamborghini's green vehicle plans than more info popped up on our previous story about the plans for Ferrari hybrids as well. Editor Eddie Alterman from Car and Driver writes that a concept could debut at the...
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Anxious Lamborghini To Follow Ferrari, Launch Hybrid Supercar
First Ferrari frightened purists everywhere with news that it's designing hybrid electric systems for future Ferraris. Now competitor and fellow supercar maker Lamborghini is joining the purity parade. Rather than the patent drawings that sparked the Ferrari kerfuffle, Lambo issued a text-heavy...
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Lightning Hybrids at 2009 Denver Auto Show: 100 MPG? We Can Do That
A Local Colorado Company Adds Competition to the Hybrid Market
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Ford's Omnivorous Flex-Fuel Mondeo Runs On Whatever It Has In Its Tanks
The European Ford Mondeo Tri-Fuel can run interchangeably on gasoline, E85 ethanol, or liquified petroleum gas (LPG)
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The 2010 Bentley Continental GT Supersports can run on biofuels, but it probably won't; we call that 'greenwashing'