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Hydrogen Road Tour: How can H2 cars can go 1,700 miles? Use a tanker truck
The Hydrogen Road Tour is scheduled to roll into the Hydrogen + Fuel Cells 2009 here in Vancouver tomorrow after 1,700 miles and nine days on the road. But, with the range of even the best hydrogen vehicles in the hundreds of miles and H2 stations not exactly around every corner, we were curious about how the dozen hydrogen vehicles on the drive managed the trip. We got the following email from Angela Nanalal, the Hydrogen Station designer for Powertech Labs, one of the main supporters of the Hydrogen Road Tour: Powertech sponsored and ... Read more →
How power-split parallel hybrids work Sam Abuelsamid
Over the past decade, if there is one word that has become synonymous with green motoring it is hybrid. Ever since Toyota launched the first modern commercially viable hybrid with the original Prius ...
RETECH 2009: hydrogen proponent Sandy Thomas says fuel cells beat the pants off of battery-powered cars Sebastian Blanco
At the American Council on Renewable Energy's RETECH conference and expo last week, I was able to listen to a few presentations on renewables and transportation. It's always interesting to hear about ...
At Witz' End: Detroit Auto Show: Reality Check - Part II Gary Witzenburg
In my first column reality checking the Detroit Auto Show, some of you questioned my assertion that even Toyota's relatively high-volume hybrids are probably not profitable. Of course, Toyota has ...
2010 Prius detail overload: will get 49 mpg highway rating; 100,000 sales predicted for 2009 Sebastian Blanco
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2010 Toyota Prius There are reasons that the Toyota Prius is the best-selling hybird car in the world. It's simple to use, gets better mileage than pretty ...
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Alt Cat Expo 2007: OKA, the cheap, inexpensive, not pricey NEV 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The OKA NEV booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo caught people's attention for one simple reason: a price tag of $7,500. The OKA neighborhood electric vehicle is an interesting little car - seriously unhip, cheap and ready for you today. The details are not that great - 20 mile range, 25 mph top ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: All about the Electrum Spyder with UEV's Diana Lane (VIDEO) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
When the Electrum Spyder was unveiled at last year's Santa Monica Alt Car Expo, we enjoyed getting our first taste of this ambitious all-electric sports car. A year later, the Spyder has changed a little bit (as you can see in these pictures of the Electrum Spyder from the other night when ...
Miles Automotive tried to stop Tesla from getting "advanced air bag" exemption 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Recently, I wrote about a small, public fight between Aptera and Tesla over safety. It was just a few remarks and there are just a handful of electric car companies. Could they actually be fighting each other behind the scenes? Yes, and the fights have apparently gotten really serious. According to ...
Alt Car 2007: Chelsea Sexton talks Toyota, Chevy Volt and plug-in hybrids (VIDEO) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Like many people, I first "met" Chelsea Sexton through the documentary film "Who Killed The Electric Car?" Last year, as part of the promotion for the movie, Chelsea spoke with AutoblogGreen about all sorts of things, including the fact that she won't buy a hybrid until there's a plug on one. ...
Video: GM ad for Chevy Tahoe hybrid says other hybrids are "tinsy-winsy" 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
This is why I could not wait to see the ad for the hybrid Chevy Tahoe. I knew something like this was coming when the GM PR guy at Boston AltWheels told me the Chevy Tahoe was a "big ass hybrid." Twice. So, the theme of the ad is the same as other recent Chevy ads, kids learning about GM cars in ...
Alt Car 2007: Plug-in hybrids with godfather Dr. Andy Frank 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you've never heard Dr. Andy Frank, from UC Davis, speak about plug-in hybrids, you're in for a treat. Frank, who has been featured on AutoblogGreen quite a few times (highlights include an interview on UC Davis' Team Fate in the Auto X Prize and talking about kicking the oil habit with no ...
Are hybrids less likely to roll over? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video below the fold includes Stephen Heckeroth talking about his RAV4 EV on Green Wheels, a Zoom HD TV show. Stephen mentions that the RAV4 EV's 800-pound battery pack is under the floor, as low as you could want it, giving the still-popular electric vehicle a very low center of gravity. This ...
Alt Car 2007: The miniskirt and the Electric Vehicles panel 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
There a palpable difference in audience members who attend panels on hydrogen cars and those who go and listen to speakers talking about battery electric vehicles. The enthusiasm of the people at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo's hydrogen panel on Saturday (which you can hear and read about here) was ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: Fuel Cell technology panel - starring Q'orianka Kilcher 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Moderated by Leslie Goodbody from the California Air Resources Board, the Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Technology Panel at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo featured three speakers (plus one). Each of them gave an upbeat view of hydrogen cars. Big surprise. Steve Ellis, American Honda Motor Company manager of ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: Tell the world in shiny letters you're driving green 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Third Planet Energy's booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo caught my eye. Which is exactly what the folks there intended. In fact, Third Planet Energy's whole goal is to allow you to catch other people's eyes, through the use of chrome emblems that will upgrade your car's back end to identify ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: Terry Tamminen drives the future 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The audio of Tamminen's speech from last year's Alt Car Expo was quite popular with our readers, and I expect his words from this year's Santa Monica Alt Car Expo will have the same impact. Why? Because Tamminen is a good public speaker with a solid message. Sure, sometimes he repeats his jokes, ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: lithium-ion Motorboard 2000XR scooter 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
You couldn't miss the bright young people working the Roth Motor Company's Motorboard 2000XR booth at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo yesterday. These kids were young, fit and ready to tell you all about the joys of motorboarding. Featuring a nano lithium-ion battery from A123, the 16-pound 2000XR ...
AltCar Expo 2007: Transportation Planning Session 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
At the Transportation Planning Session panel on Friday morning, the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo gave space for a variety of speakers to expound on the broad challenges confronting transportation planners in the region. While the discussion focuses on how LA can improve, there are a lot of areas in the ...
Alt Car Expo 2007: California Air Resources Board chair Mary Nichols keynote speech 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California Air Resources Board, gave what was billed as a keynots address at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo yesterday. Big name for a half-hour talk on the future of green vehicles in California. Nichols said that the forseeable end points for CARB are two powertrain ...
2008 Toyota Highlander hybrid less safe than 2007 model 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I don't mean to pile on the bad news that seems to be hitting Toyota recently but I was doing some work on AutoblogGreen's second annual pick for safest hybrids and things don't look good for Toyota. Our pick for safest hybrid in 2007 was, for passenger cars, the Toyota Camry and, for SUVs, the ...
First pictures from Santa Monica's Alt Car Expo 2007 - Electrum Spyder and Vectrix scooter 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The Alt Car Expo here in Santa Monica starts this morning. Last night, on the Santa Monica Pier, some of the organizers and exhibitors met for a swanky get-together. I'm not one to pass up a tasty event like that, so I went. And look what I found parked outside - the updated Electrum Spyder and the ...
Carsharing, yes; owning, no #4: Ready to go 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
As you can see in the pic, my car sharing user card arrived in the post today. That's nice, 48 hours after I faxed all the documentation they requested. The pic also shows the T10 cards that allow 10 trips on any kind of public transport in Barcelona Metro Area, on up to 4 different transport ...
AutoblogGreen Q&A: Open Source Green Vehicle Project 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
For the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, I got a hold of some of the people behind the OSGV, a hive-mind green car project. You can listen to our interview in the podcast, and read the transcript of the chat below. I talked to David Lee and Valerie Wilson as a way to get to know at least one of the ...
Carsharing, yes; owning, no #3: Registration process (and reading small print) 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
How do you join a car sharing scheme? It's very easy - but as with all contracts, it's important to read the small print. This 3rd article of my carsharing vs. car ownership series (check out the first and second) will not only relate how I registered for my local carsharing scheme (Catalunya ...
In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click the Jeep for a high-res gallery Let's get something out the way first. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is not green. Now that we can agree on that, why is it being reviewed here on ABG? Because it's the first chance we've had to to spend an extended period with one of the new wave of diesel-powered ...
Carsharing, yes; owning, no - An AutoblogGreen writer's story, pt. 2: Knowing your provider 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
So I've decided to drop my car and use a carsharing scheme. My provider, Avancar, works under a brand named Catalunya Car Sharing. This is the first service in Spain and it only covers Barcelona and some nearby towns. Plans are that the service will extend to some other Spanish cities but I'm not ...
Carsharing, yes; owning, no - An AutoblogGreen writer's story 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I need to replace my car. But, I have decided, more exactly, that I'm going carless. I currently have a car which has served me good. My late-1998 Seat Ibiza TDI Hit has reached 200,000 km on the odometer. The car has been a constant source of satisfaction. Since the TDi engines appeared in Audi in ...
Video: Enerdel working on a plug-in Prius? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Enerdel is a company making extraordinary claims on the cost, capacity, safety, etc. of their lithium-ion, electric car battery. Possibly hoping to quiet some doubts, Enerdel has now held their first media event, unveiling the battery with the help of Congressman Dan Burton (guy on the left in ...
Drivers will not play a role in carbon law 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The United States government is in the early stages of crafting the nation's first carbon cap-and-trade law. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a white paper detailing the scope of the carbon law and one thing is already very clear: drivers won't be regulated directly because there ...
Chevy describes its car as "vegetarian" in TV ad 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I saw a TV commercial for a Chevy flex fuel car last night. The format for the ad was a lot like the Chevy Volt commercial: kids learning about a car outdoors with a teacher. The interesting part of the ad was the teacher's description of the flex fuel car as "vegetarian." I find the description of ...
Overview: teams competing in the Automotive X-Prize 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the Loremo for a high-res gallery After the success of the original Ansari X-Prize, the X-Prize Foundation started creating new X-prizes in areas like medicine and cars. The Automotive X-Prize was announced in 2006 and in April of this year, the organizers released the first draft of the ...
AltWheels Boston 2007 videos: fuel cells, cogeneration, nitrogen tires 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Here are the last few videos from AutoblogGreen's trip to AltWheels Boston 2007. The video above is a demonstration of the Nuvera Fuel Cells refueling station, some of which are in use today. Below the fold are three more videos from the expo. The first is a description of Honda's cogeneration ...
AltWheels Boston videos: Electrathon, Microfurthur, eMotive 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video above is of an Electrathon racer on display at AltWheels Boston 2007. Electrathon racers travel 50 miles in an hour using a kilowatt/hour of electricity: That's the equivalent of 1,500 MPG at highway speeds on the power of a hair dryer. The next stop for that Electrathon racer is the Red ...
Video: Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, GoLoco at AltWheels Boston 2007 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
At AltWheels Boston 2007, I had an interesting conversation with Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar and founder of GoLoco. In the video above, Robin talks about GoLoco, a Facebook web app that allows you to share rides and share the cost of travel with friends online. Robin says ride sharing reduces ...
Video: Environmental Insurance Agency at AltWheels Boston 2007 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Text_your_insurance_company_to_buy_insurance_for_a_day'; At AltWheels Boston 2007, the Environmental Insurance Agency (EIA) told me they want people that drive less to pay less for insurance. Currently, EIA is working to get laws changed in Massachusetts and ...
Video: natural gas Honda Civic re-fueling 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Above is another video from my trip to AltWheels Boston 2007. The video is a look at the Phill home refueling station, topping off a Honda Civic GNG (Compressed Natural Gas) car. Natural gas cars are actually the cleanest cars you can buy today, even cleaner than hybrids, but they just don't get ...
Video: VW's Dieselution tour pollutes at AltWheels Boston 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
We recently wrote about the VW's DIESELUTION tour. I took the video above of the Dieselution tour's stop at AltWheels Boston 2007. IMHO, VW should have called the tour Dissolution. Don't get me wrong. I like VW. I think they are great brand and really could have surfed the green revolution wave. I ...
Interview with Steve Fambro from Aptera Motors 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you read our previous update regarding the Aptera, you already know that the company is now taking deposits on their futuristic three-wheeled machine. I was able to get in contact with Steve Fambro, the man behind the Aptera, and I'll share some design and technical details in this post. With ...
Boston AltWheels ABG Video: Spend some time with Ford's Edge plug-in concept 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video above is a look at the Ford Edge plug-in at AltWheels Boston 2007. The Edge concept is a plug-in electric car with a fuel cell range extender. If it were for sale, you could charge the Edge's lithium-ion batteries by plugging it into a 110- or 220-volt socket or use the fuel cell range ...
AltWheels Video: GM describes Tahoe hybrid as a "big ass hybrid," Sir Mix-A-Lot would be proud 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The video above is a tour of the GM booth at AltWheels Boston 2007. Sir Mix-A-Lot would be proud to know that GM described its new Tahoe hybrid, the company's first full hybrid, as a "big ass hybrid" in the video. That colorful wording proves GM definitely wants the public to think hybrids are big, ...
AutoblogGreen goes to AltWheels Boston 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
I just got back from AltWheels Boston 2007. Over the next few days, I am going to write about interesting things at the show. There is not much to this article right now but I will update it with links to all the articles about the AltWheels Boston 2007. Until I begin to update this article with ...
