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The appropriately named Bright IDEA hybrid delivery van

If you were a hybrid vehicle manufacturer, and you wanted to lower the world’s CO2 emissions, would you first…

a) Try to replace all the privately-owned gas vehicles, that mostly just drive to and from workplaces, one vehicle at a time, or…
b) Replace entire corporate fleets of gas delivery vehicles, that typically spend [...]

Algaeus lives! A modified Prius goes cross-country on fuel from algae

You really can drive across the country on algae–and a 700-pound battery pack–or so proved the crew behind the documentary Fuel .

Why Ethanol–Not Electric Cars and Hybrids–Is the Answer

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Times are tough for the biofuel movement. Concerns have been rampant about how much gas it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol and about how much farmland and corn would be needed to produce enough fuel to make a dent in our gasoline addiction. Combine that with the popularity [...]

China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars

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Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.
The goal, which radiates from the very top of the Chinese government, suggests that [...]

The road ahead

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The world’s carmakers have mapped out their route to a greener future
THERE is nothing like high oil prices, panic-selling of big cars and the prospect of swingeing new penalties on carbon-spewing vehicles to concentrate the minds of the world’s carmakers. In less than two years something remarkable has happened. Technologies once [...]