It’s not often that we mention NASCAR. In fact, the term shows up twice, on back to back days three years ago. There’s good reason. The amount of resources (tires, fuel, motor oil, asphalt, etc) consumed by the association (NASCAR stands for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing) boggles the mind and does not [...]
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NASCAR to Use Electric Ford Focus as Pace Car
April 25th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation 
Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Ford, Hybrids 
No Comments »Review and Test Drive of the Fisker Karma
March 22nd, 2012 Chris DeArmond The Fisker Karma is unlike any other car on the road. Known as an EVer—Electric Vehicle extended range—Fisker correctly claims the Karma to be “the world’s first high performance electric luxury vehicle with the freedom to plug in or fill up.” This four-door sedan is well-built, practical, and beautifully designed inside and out—all by a [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Green Products, Transportation Tags: Battery, Cars, Chris DeArmond, EPA, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Product Review, Test Drive, Washington DC No Comments »Toyota’s New 83MPG Hybrid Goes on Sale in Japan
December 27th, 2011 Justin Manger Toyota’s smallest and most environmentally friendly hybrid, the Aqua, hit the Japanese market earlier this week. The $22,000 car is 2 feet shorter than its well known cousin the Prius and gets more than 83 miles per gallon. To be named the Prius C when it eventually crosses the Pacific and goes on sale in [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Products, Japan, Justin Manger, News, Transportation Tags: Cars, Electric Vehicles, Green Technology, Hybrids, Prius No Comments »U.S. Military to Develop Green Combat Vehicles?
November 9th, 2011 Justin Manger Not tanks, necessarily, but Ground Combat Vehicles (GCV). The part about getting huge, heavy, important military vehicles to go green is accurate, however. Defense contractor BAE Systems is looking to deliver a design for a hybrid-electric, next-generation GCV as the Army looks for ways to modernize its armored fighting vehicles. Similar to a tank, GCVs are large, has mounted [...]
Posted in Behavior, Clean Technology, Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Justin Manger, News, Transportation Tags: Green Technology, Hybrids No Comments »The Economic Advantages of Green Energy
October 14th, 2011 Guest Author The world is changing, and maybe not for the better. A look at The United States, as well as many other industrialized countries, finds that nearly 85% of energy comes from fossil fuels. Oil is integral in today’s society: we’re dependent on it. When oil is transported or burned, it emits CO2, among other air [...]
Electric Cars – A Practical Man’s Epiphany
September 28th, 2011 Guest Author The green movement was a nonstarter for me. The generation gap was never more evident than at my house. While my son studies green technologies at school, I prefer collared greens and the Green Bay Packers. I’m a practical man. Father and son relationships are a strange thing. On a perfect summer afternoon, we sat [...]
Posted in Behavior, Guest Authors, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, California, Electric Vehicles, Ford, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Tax Rebates No Comments »Toyota’s Prius Goes Plural
September 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson Back in January we wrote about the expansion of the Prius line and more recently about their imminent arrival in the US. Billboards and commercials (albeit slightly strange ones like the video below) have begun airing this past week with the tagline “The Prius Goes Plural.” In addition to this tagline/motto, the new Prius line [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Transportation Tags: Cars, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Prius, Video No Comments »Econation Offers Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles
August 22nd, 2011 Eric Wilson During the Academy Award ceremony earlier this year, stars arrived in the usual black car, but many of these were either powered by alternative fuel or were hybrid vehicles. According to NPR, Econation “has contracts with most of the major Hollywood studios”, which led to many stars arriving in the fuel efficient cars. Econation offers [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Denver, Hybrids, Los Angeles, Prius, Saint Louis Missouri, Washington DC No Comments »Can Auto Manufacturers reach 54.5 MPG by 2025?
August 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond On July 29, the Obama administration proposed a plan that would require automakers to reach a fleet-wide average of 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2025 under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The new rules roughly double the current requirement for passenger cars (27.5 MPG), and will start to go into effect in [...]
Toyota’s Expanded Prius Line to Make US Debut This Fall
July 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson The Prius v, a larger version of the “traditional” Prius that has become borderline ubiquitous in many parts of the country, will go on sale across the United States this fall. It represents the first of the expanded Prius line to come to market. In addition, the plug-in Prius, oft discussed (including on 2nd Green [...]
Posted in Business, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Japan, News, Transportation Tags: California, Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrid, Prius No Comments »
