Automaker Nissan has announced word of its forthcoming Green Program with the byline: A symbiosis of people, vehicles and nature. By model year 2010, Nissan hopes to sprinkle a few new environmentally friendly additions to its model line in the form of a 3-liter automobile which would consume only 3 liters of gasoline per […]

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I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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This week saw two technological breakthroughs in the auto-world. First, Honda started production of its hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle : FCX Clarity, albeit on a limited basis. Honda is expected to manufacture 200 Clarity units over the next three years, but it will probably take another 8-10 years for it to be pulled into the […]

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In my last blog entry I began to discuss the benefits of using hydrogen as a virtually pollution-free fuel source. In effort to capitalize on the potential of hydrogen, fuel cells would have to replace internal combustion engines. So exactly how does a fuel cell work? At its core the fuel cell […]

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In April of this year the Secretary of Transportation (Mary E. Peters) proposed an interesting plan: She calls for an acceleration of last year’s Congress enacted CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards by a whopping 25%. For those in need of a refresher, CAFE is the sales weighted average fuel economy, expressed in miles […]

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