Posts Tagged ‘fuel’
2009 Hybridfest Green Drive Expo: Jeff Bach Fires ‘Em Up
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, event, hybrid, mass transit
As operators of heavy duty engines search for alternatives to dirty diesel, Jeffrey Bach and his team invite them to get fired up!
He and his company, Fire Em Up, are makers of the Diesel Magnum, a propane substitution system for diesel engines, providing dramatic reductions in harmful emissions, as well as substantial reductions in fuel [...]
Tags: diesel, Fire_Em_Up, fuel, Green_Drive_Expo, hybrid, Hybridfest, propane
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
2,757 miles per gallon?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Sound impossible? Not if you’re an Eco Marathoner.
Congratulations go out to the student-led Alerion Supermileage team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada for achieving the fuel milestone and winning the Grand Prize during the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition pitting student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves against each other to travel the farthest distance using [...]
Tags: Alerion, biomass, car, concept, cool, diesel, eco, fuel, fuel_cell, hydrogen, Laval, LPG, marathon, Matt_Kelly, mpg, prototype, Purdue, Shell, solar, UCLA