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Enterprise Rent-a-Car Establishes Green Building Criteria
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Fri, Jan 28
Where's a rental car company's main environmental impact? The cars themselves are a good bet: millions of late model cars rented each year no doubt adds up to a lot of carbon emissions. Many of the companies in this industry are now offer...
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Mitsubishi Bets Big on Electric Vehicles
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Jan 24
Mitsubishi has been left in the fuel-efficient dust in respect to the rest of the auto industry, but now the Japanese auto-maker is going to try and play catch-up. Will their efforts be too little, too late? GreenPacks.org says, Mitsub...
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Ford Dazzles NAIAS With Small SUV Vertrek Concept
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Jan 10
With so many automakers seemingly playing every card they had in their hand at CES last week, I was a little concerned at what I would find this week at NAIAS. The answer...not much (with a few outstanding exceptions). One such exceptio...
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Star Wars Sound Effects May Soon Be Required on Electric Vehicles
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Dec 27
A few months ago I told you that Star Wars sound effects were being considered by EV automakers to bring a definite cool factor to the EU's requirement that all electric vehicles must emit an artificial warning sound. It won't be long be...
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Tesla Expects To Make $60 Million From Toyota's Electric RAV4
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Dec 20
When Tesla first jumped into the electric vehicle pool a few years ago, they did so with a cannonball of fury. The Roadster's splash was so incredible that Tesla became the focus of the entire pool every time they walked to the diving board...
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Revolutionary BMW VED Prototype Hits The Road
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Fri, Nov 19
The BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics (VED) prototype we saw debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show last year is actually going into production...and will be shockingly close to its conceptual form. Often times a vehicle's lofty and futuristic co...
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Nissan To Crank Out 4 New Electric Vehicles by 2014
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Nov 15
The Nissan LEAF isn't even available yet (it hits the road next month), but the automaker is already looking to the future. According to The Detroit News, Nissan will crank out 4 more all-electric vehicles in the next four years. The Detro...
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Audi Gives Sneak Peak at its New Q5 Hybrid...In All Its Sexiness
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Fri, Nov 12
Audi let the cat out of the bag by releasing specs and videos of their first hybrid a week before it debuts at the LA Auto Show. Audi has aggressively pushed their clean diesel technology in the U.S., but now they round out the major aut...
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200MPG Car Made of 3D Printed Panels Hits The Road
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Tue, Nov 09
What do you get when a transportation design company partners with a 3D printing company? A crazy-efficient hybrid car who's body is printed, rather than manufactured. And oh by the way, it's real. Kor Ecologic and Stratasys brought a p...
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Automakers Spending Hundreds of Millions to Retool Factories
Posted by Jeffrey Davis
Mon, Nov 08
The big three American automakers are creating thousands of jobs and dumping buckets of money into their factories in order to meet Obama'a 2016 fuel-efficiency requirements. Late last month TreeHugger reported that Ford was investing $8...
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