Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Day 2: Hydrogen Road Tour 2009-on the road with the CAFCP
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, biofuel, flight, hydrogen, infrastructure, legislation, mass transit
Day two of the 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour began an early day on the Santa Monica Pier, followed by a trip to West LA to one of the newest hydrogen stations in Southern California. This is a mixed use station where in addition to formulating the hydrogen they sell onsite, they also sell gasoline, diesel [...]
Tags: alternative fuel, auto, battery, car, electric car, electric vehicles, energy, environment, EV, GM, hydrogen
Day 1: Hydrogen Road Tour 2009-on the road with the CAFCP
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, infrastructure, legislation
This week I joined the 2009 Hydrogen Road Tour, or H2RT, a nine-day series of media, VIP and public events in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to highlight the communities where fuel cells and hydrogen stations are entering early commercial markets.
H2RT is a joint effort that involves the California Fuel Cell Partnership, California [...]
Tags: auto, battery, CAFCP, car, energy, environment, EV, fuel, fuel_cell, H2RT, hydrogen, NHA, vehicle
As goes California, so goes the nation….
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under legislation
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
U.S. President Barack Obama imposed tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage yesterday. Saying “The status quo is no longer acceptable,” Obama said new standards would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of the program.
Calling it the [...]
Tags: Barack, Chevrolet, energy, environment, EV, Focus, Ford, fuel, Obama, Volt
Citroen’s new C1 Ev’ie
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation
The first all-electric family car went on sale in the United Kingdom recently.
Launched by Citroen and called the C1 ev’ie, the lithium ion battery-powered, all-electric mini car is classified as a car, unlike the Indian-built Reva G-Wiz, which had to be registered as a quadricycle.
It features a 30kw electric motor, is powered by 25 li-ion [...]
Tags: auto, battery, car, Citroen, energy, environment, EV, Evie, fuel, Green_Motion, G_Wiz, Li_ion, Matt_Kelly, Reva
Chocolate as a fuel?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, biofuel, concept
145 mph on chocolate?
My question is that milk or dark chocolate?
London scientists just unveiled what they hope will be one of the world’s fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers.
The car “fuel” is vegetable oils and chocolate waste that has been turned into biofuel. The steering wheel [...]
Tags: auto, biofuel, cars, chocolate, cool, energy, environment, fast, fuel, Matt_Kelly, racing, speed, transportation, Warwick
Zipcar launches FastFleet, partners with ZimRide
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, ride sharing
Have you heard of Zipcar?
Begun in Cambridge, Massachusetts nearly a decade ago, the startup pioneers the European idea of car-sharing here in the U.S.
Its concept is simple: offer self-service vehicles by the hour or day to city residents and businesses looking for an alternative to the high costs and hassles of owning a car in [...]
Tags: Adrian_Fenty, auto, car, car_sharing, Clean Energy, energy, environment, FastFleet, fleet, FlexCar, Matt_Kelly, ride_sharing, Stamford_University, Sustainability, Zimride, Zipcar