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Toyota has been taking plenty of hits from environmental groups of late for playing up a green image while working behind the scenes to neuter new fuel economy standards. The big Tundra pickup has gotten most of…
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Airport Bound: Daimler launches new 16-passenger Sprinter
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Travelers across American can expect to see a new addition to the airport rental, parking and hotel shuttle fleets with the availability of a new version of the familiar…
2010 Ford Fusion 4 cylinder gets official EPA numbers, 23/34 mpg!
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Ford's revamped 2010 Fusion sedan continues to run up the big numbers when it comes to the EPA mileage ratings. The feds have just finished calculating the ratings for the four-cylinder model and, just as with…
Toyota First Asian OEM to Host the Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) World Congress
Every spring thousands of automotive engineers from around the world gather at Cobo Hall in Detroit for the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress. The four-day gathering includes hundreds of technical sessions on all kinds of topics related…
UK Entrepreneur seeking investment for Irish biobutanol plant
Australian biofuels entrepreneur John Nicholas is trying to raise some money for a new venture. Nicholas wants to get £80 million to build a biobutanol plant in Ireland. The plan is to team up with sugar beet growers in the area to supply their crops…
Nancy Gioia discusses hybrids, plug-ins and battery leases
Following the reveal of the Ford Fusion Hybrid at the Los Angeles Auto show last week, Ford's director of sustainable mobility technology Nancy Gioia spoke with Green Fuels Forecast about a number of topics. Top of the list, of course, was the new…
VW MK VI Golf made from over 40% recycled materials
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Anyone that has looked closely will realize that there is a lot of old Golf in the new sixth-generation hatchback from Volkswagen. However, you would have to look really close to find out just how much.…
Motor Trend: Volt more significant than anything Tesla ever likely to build
By the time the ball drops in Times Square this New Year's Eve, chances are there will be more Chevrolet Volts on the road than Tesla Roadsters. Motor Trend Editor in Chief Angus MacKenzie writes in a new editorial that during the Tesla IPO road-show…
British supermarket chain Tesco to run trucks on B50 biodiesel
Tesco is biggest supermarket chain in the UK and starting next month, three quarters of their delivery fleet will be running on B50 biodiesel. Tesco has 2,000 trucks and vans in their fleet right now, and the change to B50 will reduce their green…
Is tectonic activity the real source of oil? Should we be using it?
We missed this item recently about a major new oil find off the coast of Brazil. If current estimates pan out, there may be as much as 33 billion barrels of crude oil in the new sub-Atlantic field. That would make the new find the third largest…