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...
Category - electric cars
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...
- alternative energy
- Biofuel
- electric cars
- ethanol
- fuels
- hybrid cars
- Sustainable Development
- transportation
Competition Encourages Forward Thinking
In 1978 gasoline was selling for .63 cents a gallon and forward thinkers had decided then to create an annual competition that would pit college and university teams against each other in design, construction, and endurance of open-wheel race cars. ...
Hummer, or as David Hirsch of Friends of the Earth calls it “the most anti-environmental vehicle in the history of the world”, might soon become a thing of the past, at least in the US. The drastic fall in demand for the vehicle has...
We start this week with a podcast posted by Green Living Ideas about the future of electric cars. Sean Daily, the Editor-In-Chief of the website, discusses the history, present, and future of electric cars with Alex Campbell, Director of...
