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Fuel Economy Gold Standard

September 19, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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I've long been fascinated by the X-Prize approach of providing substantial (but not astronomical) incentives for key breakthroughs: private sub-orbital flight, lunar landers, and most relevantly for this blog, the Progressive Automotive X-Prize for a 100 mile-per-gallon car, which began in 2006. The latter competition has been won by a... [read more]

How We Can End Our Addiction to Oil

May 31, 2010 by Craig Severance
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What Will it Take to End Our Oil Addiction?      Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill     Peak Oil Coming Sooner Than Expected May 29, 2010 by Craig Severance It's time we moved on to something else, or this is going to kill us.  Not only are world oil supplies running out, but... [read more]

Even the Auto Industry Wants Climate Change Action

March 20, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Auto industry’s biggest trade group speaks out against Murkowski bill, throws support behind EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Industry trade group opposes bill to prevent EPA from regulating GHGs. (Photo: Hurst/ecopolitology) We can assume that rail, transit and bicycle groups want governmental action on climate change,... [read more]

Driving growth: How clean cars and climate policy can create jobs

March 16, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Reducing America’s dependence on imported oil will not only enhance our national security; it will create substantially more jobs than continuing on our current path of waste and unsustainable resource use.  CAP has teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the United Auto Workers to produce a new study on the clean... [read more]

Energy and Global Warming News for June 16th — A car charging infrastructure takes shape; Siemens, Munich Re study $555 Billion, 100 GW concentrated solar project in the Sahara

June 17, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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A Car Charging Infrastructure Takes Shape Having shipped hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations, and with repeat orders now coming in from Europe, Coulomb Technologies, a privately-held Silicon Valley company, expects to be profitable by the 2010 introduction of the Chevy Volt, according to its chief executive, Richard... [read more]

China car sales jump beyond imagination with 2-month wait

June 15, 2009 by Ee Mien Low
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bloomberg.com : Zhao Hang, who helped devise China's auto-stimulus package, is facing demand from car buyers battling an unexpected consequence - two-month waiting lists. Zhao said : "Given the world economic situation, demand for cars is surprisingly strong in China." Beijing drivers, used to leaving showrooms with new cars the... [read more]

Carless cities at the European Future Energy Forum

June 12, 2009 by Tom Raftery
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One of the more interesting sessions at the European Future Energy Forum was the one on Green building (in fact it was two back to back sessions, one titled Green building and the second was titled Energy Efficiency in Commercial and public spaces). Not surprisingly, given their heavy involvement in the organisation of the event, both... [read more]

Nano unveiled in India- Does it have a sustainable future?

March 25, 2009 by Climatico Analysis
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Photo credit: Flickr/sujathafan On Monday, the highly publicized Tata Motors Nano  automobile was launched in Mumbai. Since 2003 the Tata Motors Nano has been the source of much attention from diverse stakeholders:  garnering labels such as the “The People’s Car,” center of a heated protest over land and labor in India, hailed... [read more]

Cheap Gas

December 5, 2008 by Geoffrey Styles
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As rapidly as it has fallen, the average pump price of unleaded regular gasoline in the US still has a ways to go, to end up lower on Barack Obama's Inaugural Day next January 20 than its inflation-adjusted level of $1.60 per gallon when Bill Clinton took office in 1993. However, it does seem likely to beat the adjusted $1.82 per gallon... [read more]

Surprise! You deserve it.

July 21, 2008 by Henry Gentenaar
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You’ve probably noticed the uptick in media stories about shocked American drivers dealing with the bombshell of a new  energy reality. Open a paper and you’re swimming in adjectives describing consumer astonishment. Drivers are “horrified”, “traumatized”, “outraged”. They’re “shaken”, “stunned”, “dazed”,  “worried” and “... [read more]

Perception vs. Reality

June 25, 2008 by Geoffrey Styles
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Last week I had a very interesting meeting with Mr. Norman Johnson, Director of External Affairs for the North American division of Robert Bosch GmbH, the massive German electronics and auto parts supplier. While receiving a helpful update on advanced automotive technology, I was struck by the contrast between the low-profile efforts of... [read more]

Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

November 14, 2007 by ShaiAgassi
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The day of our launch my boys were with me in new York (which was one of the most gratifying thing about this launch). As I prepared for the interviews with the best media training team (thanks, Vicky!!!) my oldest son was watching me and took part in the correction round. At some point he looked at me and said something very... [read more]

The Mayor Plugs In

October 30, 2007 by Jonathan Smith
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Photo Source: City of Minneapolis “Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak may be the first mayor in the nation to drive a plug-in hybrid vehicle as his official city car.” Rybak told the Minnesota Daily: It became clear to me that the two big things we had to do were convert to plug-in hybrids and find a way to have them use electricity from non... [read more]