FIAT: The Greenest Fuel Engine in the World?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Automotive News reported this morning that Fiat has developed a new engine that may be the world’s greenest fuel engine.
The two-cylinder Twin-Air was unveiled earlier this year at the Geneva Auto Show, and will be used on 500 units of the automaker’s signature 500 minicar beginning in September. The choice to equip their trademark car [...]

Houston and Nissan: A Partnership for an EV Future

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

According to a report by Reuters printed by Auto News, Houston, a city whose wealth and prominence was established by its oil and gas companies, now wants to be the electric car capital of the world.
Speaking at an event on February 5 to promote the all-electric Nissan Leaf, Houston mayor Annise Parker said, “We are [...]

T. Boone, Natural Gas, and the Whiff of Something Else

Friday, February 19th, 2010

We’ve heard a lot from T. Boone Pickens about alternative energy, but until recently his main focus was wind turbines. Then the economy crashed, investors didn’t have money to spend on those kinds of projects, and Pickens quit running his TV commercials about big West Texas wind farms.
Speaking in Orlando on Monday, February 15, 2010, [...]

And the Gold Medal for Green Tech Goes To….

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Amidst stories of tragedy on the luge track, and complaints that NBC isn’t giving enough coverage to athletes from countries than the USA, it may have gone largely unnoticed that VANOC, the organizing committee for both the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has been pushing to make this year’s games, “…the greenest Olympic Games ever…” [...]

Kia Goes Green Without Sacrificing Style

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Kia may be mocked by some as being a low-price, low-status brand, but the concept car being shown at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show, the The Kia Ray concept is definitely high style – even better, it’s a high sign from the folks in South Korea that green is defiinitely the way a sleek [...]