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Got Millikin? Mike Millikin, publisher of green-car blog, answers Grist's questions		02 May 2005	InterActivist
Mike Millikin. What work do you do? I am the publisher/writer of Green Car Congress, a site covering technologies, issues, and policies for sustainable mobility. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? My mission is to build a company that offers a portfolio of media products providing detailed technical, practical business and produ ...
Topics: bikes, business, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, hybrids, InterActivist, interview, politics, Prius, public transportation (all these topics)

A Prius With Mayo, Hold the Mayo Fledgling California bill calls for new sales outlets for hybrids		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
A Prius With Mayo, Hold the Mayo Fledgling California bill calls for new sales outlets for hybrids Ever wished you could get a five-pound jar of mayonnaise and a Toyota Prius at the same convenient location? Uh, let us explain. California drivers are crazy for hybrids; dealerships in the state have months-long waiting lists, presumably becau ...
Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, news, placemaking, politics, Prius, renewable energy, shopping (all these topics)

Hybrids tested and reviewed -- Wired style	Chris Schults	23 Mar 2005	Gristmill
Thinking about buying a hybrid car? Paul A. Eisenstein, founder of TheCarConnection.com, write's up the results of Wired's road tests of the following vehicles: Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid Ford Escape Hybrid Honda Accord Hybrid Honda Civic Hybrid Honda Insight Lexus Rx 400h Toyota Prius Toyota Highlander Hybrid They drove them down city streets, up freeway on-ramps, and along the tight twists of a mountain road. They judged the cars on acceleration, maneuverab ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

SVO Speedwagon On hybrids vs. veggie-oil cars	Umbra Fisk	14 Mar 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I currently drive a 2002 Toyota Prius that gets about 40 to 42 miles per gallon on the highway, which is where most of my driving takes place. However, I've recently become enamored with biodiesel vehicles, and specifically with straight vegetable oil (SVO) vehicles. I'm interested in investing in an SVO system fueled by, hopefully, recycled oil from local restaurants. I've looked into your column archives, and i ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Lights, camera, activism	Katharine Wroth	23 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Here's some greenish 'news' filtering through all the Million-Dollar Oscar hype: buncha stars are going to show up in Priuses instead of limos. And since they'll be using chauffeurs, it probably even counts as carpooling! For the third year running, hybrid-minded actors -- including Charlize Theron, Leonardo DiCaprio, and, of course, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins -- are taking part in 'Red Carpet, Green Cars' to raise funds for Global Green U.S.A. As a token of th ...
Topics: celebrity, green products, Prius (all these topics)

To Share, Perchance to Drive On renting hybrids and sharing cars	Umbra Fisk	22 Feb 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Do you know of any car-rental companies that offer hybrids? I have heard of a bunch in environmentally friendly California, but my quick search in the Boston area has turned up nil. With high gas prices, I think I'm brewing up a new campaign! Jean Dorchester, Mass. Dearest Jean, An environmentally focused rental group, EV Rental Cars, has joined forces with a big-name rental company, Budget, t ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

The Altima Sacrifice Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Altima Sacrifice Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima Automaker Nissan is releasing its first hybrid model, a version of its Altima sedan, next year, but it doesn't have to like it. In a speech at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said hybrids aren't profitable enough ...
Topics: business, cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, United States (all these topics)

Of Motion and Emotion	Clark Williams-Derry	25 Jan 2005	Gristmill
I seem to have touched a nerve: it seems that more people had an opinion about my posts on the Cascadia Scorecard weblog discussing the Prius and the potential benefits of hybrid SUVs than about anything I'd written before. My question is: why?To recap:� in the first post I argue that, for someone choosing between an inexpensive-but-pretty-efficient car and a super-efficient-but-more-expensive Prius, the cheaper car might be the more environmentally soun ...
Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, green living, Prius (all these topics)

The little engine that could? Hm.	Clark Williams-Derry	21 Jan 2005	Gristmill
Over the last two days, a question has circulated around the NEW office, asked by green architect and NEW friend Rob Harrison. His quandary: Which car should he buy to replace an automobile that was totalled? He's narrowed his choices to four -- a super-efficient Toyota Prius, a VW or Subaru station wagon, or a 1992 Honda Accord -- and is weighing factors including price, reliability, safety, utility, and environmental performance. I can't claim any special ex ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota		17 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota Toyota has thus far dominated the market for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, with its so-hot-Cameron-Diaz-has-one Prius outselling Honda's diminutive Civic Hybrid by an almost two-to-one margin in the U.S. this year (and let's not even mention Honda's Insight -- you ever seen one?). Now Honda is fighting back by offering a hybrid vers ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Does My Butt Look Big in This Car? Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Does My Butt Look Big in This Car? Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity Last month, Honda sold 1,963 Civic Hybrids and a meager 34 Insight hybrids in the U.S. -- and sales trends for both models are trending downward -- while the Toyota Prius fairly flew off lots, with 5,230 sold in the U.S. last month. A Toyota spokesperson said the company could have sold twice as many if production h ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Escape Notice Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations		14 May 2004	Daily Grist
Escape Notice Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations Demand for gas-electric hybrid vehicles has automakers scrambling to keep up. Ford's new Escape hybrid SUV won't go on sale until August, but already 30,000 people have expressed the desire to buy one via Ford's website, whereas the company had planned to sell just 20,000 a year. Meanwhile, waiting lists for Toyota's Prius are growi ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Action Heroes How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet		22 Apr 2004	Daily Grist
Action Heroes How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet With today's environmental problems so large, abstract, and intractable -- see warming, global -- you're probably wondering what you, one individual, can do on Earth Day to help. (If you're one of the people surveyed by Gallup -- see above -- perhaps you don't care, but humor us.) It's easy to feel powerless i ...
Topics: cars, green products, greening biz operations, hybrids, Massachusetts, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us Thanks to lobbying by intrepid enviro group Global Green USA, several high-profile celebrities arrived at the Academy Awards this year not in stretch limos, but in diminutive hybrid Toyota Priuses. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Robin Willi ...
Topics: cars, celebrity, consumerism, electric vehicles, environmental justice, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Stinky Unsafe Vehicle On SUVs	Umbra Fisk	25 Feb 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Please help; my friend Kathryn Schulz, Grist's managing editor, is sick of hearing about my guilt. I own an SUV. In my defense, I got it almost six years ago, when I was moving to the mountains and needed a big car with four-wheel drive to support my rugged, transient lifestyle, and it's a littler model, not a Navigator. Life is funny, though, because now I live in New York, and the only thing I use my SUV for is commuting from ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Put the Pedal to the Mettle The word on relatively green cars and positively green bicycles	Jim Motavalli, The Green Guide	16 Dec 2003	Earthly Possessions
By Jim Motavalli and The Green Guide 16 Dec 2003 Hy-wire act. Photo: DOE. My daughter Maya, who is 9, saw a picture of the General Motors Hy-wire, the company's super-sleek experimental fuel-cell car, and immediately decided we should have one. Unfortunately, I had to explain to her that the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission, fossil-fuel-free car would be perfect for us in all respects except one: It's not ...
Topics: bikes, cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Big Gulp Ford May Restart Production of Its Biggest SUV		29 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Big Gulp Ford May Restart Production of Its Biggest SUV Ford Motor Co. disappointed enviros with an announcement this week that it may resume production of its monster-sized Excursion SUV, dubbed the Valdez by the Sierra Club. Last year, Ford said it would stop producing the Excursion after the 2004 model year because of falling sales, but now the company is reconsidering because, it says, the market for large S ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, celebrity, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture Defying conventional wisdom, Toyota unveiled its new hybrid-car production site in Toyota City, Japan, yesterday and sent a clear message to other automakers: Gas-electric hybrids can be manufactured inexpensively. Such cars have traditionally been thought of as too costly to be practical, and Toyota and Honda, the only two companies to ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Things That Make You Go Hummer		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
Things That Make You Go Hummer Yesterday, Grist reported that the average fuel efficiency of U.S. vehicles is at a 22-year low. Today, we're happy to report that at least people are upset about it. A survey of complaints about new vehicles, released yesterday by J. D. Powers and Associates, found that fuel consumption was the second-most-common complaint among all respondents. In the 17 years ...
Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Driving Us Crazy		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Driving Us Crazy Toyota last week unveiled a spiffy new version of its hybrid gas-electric Prius, which will get better gas mileage (55 miles to the gallon), emit fewer air pollutants, and give passengers more room than previous Prius models. The car will hit showrooms late this year as a 2004 model. Toyota also said it plans to eventually spread its hybrid technology throughout its fleet. But sales of P ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em Some stars toned down the glitz at last night's Academy Awards ceremony in acknowledgement of the war in Iraq, while others toned down their energy consumption, arriving at the event in gas-electric hybrid cars instead of gas-guzzling stretch limos. Actress Cameron Diaz was chauffeured to the Oscars in her own Toyota Prius. "I drive it e ...
Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, celebrity, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away		11 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away Toyota Prius owners -- celebs and regular folks alike -- are doing more than saving money at the gas pump and curbing greenhouse-gas emissions: They're also making a political statement, thumbing their noses at Saddam Hussein, oil barons, and SUV owners everywhere. Wyatt Earp, a descendant of the legendary gunslinger, has purchased four hybrid-electric P ...
Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Oh, What a Bad Feeling		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ...
Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		03 May 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 03 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. I'm about to get on a plane to head to Boston, where I'll attend a meeting at the University of Massachusetts on global climate change and biodiversity. I've been invited to give a talk on research, recently published in the journal Oecologia, concerning experimental work we've done in Costa Rica on the effects of climate ch ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College		02 May 2002	Dispatches
Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 02 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My Standard Breakfast Boiled Egg was pretty near perfect this morning. Unfortunately, I burned the toast. You win some, you lose some. Happily, the morning was bright and clear with a kiss of warmth in the air, which bodes well for the peas and beans and strawberry plants sprouting in my garden. I'm afraid I've lost th ...
Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics)

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