When energy efficiency and fuel economy come to mind, big oil is not always the first image that pops up. However, Shell Oil has been supporting the Eco-Marathon, a competition for “high school and college student teams from around the world to design, build and test energy efficient vehicles.” The current record is held by [...]
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Eco-Marathon Challenges Students to Create Ultra Fuel-Efficient Transport
April 9th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson 
Tags: Battery, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Economy, Oil Consumption, Peak Oil, Photovoltaic, Plug-in Hybrid, Solar Energy 
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 »Five Friday Facts: Chevy Volt
March 9th, 2012 Eric Wilson With the positive and negative news surrounding the Chevy Volt this week, we wanted to present five facts about the vehicle. These facts come from the Chevy Volt’s website. Every Volt comes standard with a 120V portable charge cord that can plug into most common household outlets and will fully charge a Volt in about [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Battery, Chevy Volt, EPA, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »Chevy Volt Loses Its Charge
March 5th, 2012 Eric Wilson Despite rising gas prices and a sharp jump in February sales (as compared to January), General Motors has temporarily halted production of the Chevy Volt, its plug-in hybrid. According to NPR, “General Motors will suspend production of its Chevrolet Volt electric car for five weeks amid disappointing sales.” The shutdown, which has furloughed some 1,300 [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News, Transportation Tags: Chevy Volt, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »California Strengthens Vehicle Emission Standards
February 2nd, 2012 Chris DeArmond Over the past couple of decades, California has earned a reputation for passing its own environmental standards that are often much more rigorous than those set by the federal government. Following this trend, California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) released a tougher vehicle emissions program for vehicle model years (MY) 2015 through 2025. The Advanced Clean [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, News, Policy, Transportation Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Cars, Chris DeArmond, Climate Change, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid, Pollution No Comments »Automakers Unveil Electric Vehicles at Detroit Auto Show
January 13th, 2012 Chris DeArmond Despite the fact that hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for less than 3 percent of cars sold in 2011, they dominated this week’s Detroit Auto Show for the second year in a row. While several hybrid/electric vehicles revealed at the show were concept cars—for example, the hybrid Lexus LFLC sports coupe and the iconic Acura NSX [...]
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 »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 [...]
Slowly, but Surely Electric Vehicles Hit the Roads
August 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson Last fall I saw three electric cars in one week. It turned out to be quite the cluster (and aberration), because it had been nearly a year until I saw the next one. The other day while leaving Canopy Aiport Parking at Denver International Airport, there was a Chevy Volt plugged into one of the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Chevy Volt, Denver, Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »
