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Where Many Have Gone Before Prius sales top 1 million		15 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 15 May 2008 Worldwide sales of Toyota's Prius hybrid have passed the 1 million mark, the auto company announced Thursday. The world's first mass-produced hybrid was introduced in Japan in 1997 and in other markets in 2000. While it was at the time a risky business venture, it didn't take long for the word Prius -- Latin for "to go before" -- to become synonymous with popular hybrid technology (and yuppie enviro ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, green living, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

Push the Plug Nissan wants to offer you an electric car by 2010		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:21 PM on 13 May 2008 Nissan wants to bring electric cars to the U.S. and Japan by 2010 and to the world by 2012, the automaker announced Tuesday. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in 2005 called gas-electric hybrids "niche products," but he's changed his tune, declaring that his company is determined to demonstrate "zero-emission-vehicle leadership." While General Motors and Toyota also have plans to bring ele ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, news (all these topics)

I smell a hedging strategy How much would you pay for cheap gas?	Sean Casten	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, oil (all these topics)

Danny sings the blues Seattle Times columnist needs a new ride	biodiversivist	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, oil, Seattle (all these topics)

A Compact, With Less of the Devil Small cars gaining popularity in U.S. amid high fuel costs		02 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:48 AM on 02 May 2008 High gasoline prices and other economic woes have driven car-buyers in the U.S. to purchase smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles lately. Last month, sales of compact and subcompact cars made up about 20 percent of total sales; in the mid 1990s, small cars accounted for only about one in eight cars sold in the country. Sales of vehicles with four-cylinder engines also ou ...
Topics: business, cars, news, United States (all these topics)

Haul's Well That Ends Well On cargo bikes	Umbra Fisk	30 Apr 2008	Ask Umbra

Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, bikes, cars, green living (all these topics)

Rack and Forth On hauling goods by bike	Umbra Fisk	28 Apr 2008	Ask Umbra

Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, bikes, cars, green living (all these topics)

Driven to change March small car sales up; SUV, truck sales down	Joseph Romm	26 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, fuel efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Start Your Engines Feds set fuel-economy benchmarks for automakers		22 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:14 AM on 22 Apr 2008 Federal regulators will propose benchmarks Tuesday for automakers to hit on their way to reaching a fuel-economy requirement of 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Auto fleets will have to average 27.8 mpg by 2011 and 31.6 mpg by 2015 -- a more aggressive timetable than was required by Congress. That's 35.7 mpg for passenger cars in 2015 (new cars averaged 31.3 mpg last year) and 28.6 mpg for light truc ...
Topics: business, cars, climate, fuel efficiency, news, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Think Again All-electric car coming to the U.S. next year		22 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 7:57 AM on 22 Apr 2008 Reasonably priced, all-electric cars are coming soon to a California near you. (And then to the rest of the U.S. before too long.) Think Global, which was sold by Ford Motor Co. to Norwegian investors in 2003, will partner with two venture capital firms to mass-produce the battery-powered Think City in the U.S., starting next year. About the size of a Mini Cooper, the Think City is a two-seater but has ro ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, news, United States (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green Test driving a fully electric car	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Frog Gone? Lots of amphibians ending up as roadkill, says research		21 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 21 Apr 2008 Need a new reason to hate cars? You're in luck! Death by vehicle could be a major contributing factor in declining numbers of amphibians, according to new research published in the journal Herpetological Conservation and Biology. (Hee hee, they said "herpetological.") Intrepid road-kill researchers from Purdue University spent 17 months schlepping up 10, ...
Topics: cars, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green: breaking news Think all-electric vehicles coming to the U.S.	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, cars, innovation, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

Cool paint job Reflective paint and glaze can reduce the need for A/C in your car	Joseph Romm	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: cars, climate, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, tech (all these topics)

The unthinkable humiliation of biking, part two	David Roberts	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, cars, green living, TV (all these topics)

Gas tax attacks The gasoline tax is regressive, but only for upper-income groups	Joseph Romm	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: cars, economy, environmental justice, public transportation (all these topics)

Fashion before function The automotive equivalent of high heels	Adam Browning	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

State Farm pulls bike-bashing ad	David Roberts	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, cars, green living, placemaking, TV (all these topics)

How Enterprising Enterprise Rent-a-Car opens six 'green' branches in Atlanta		10 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:26 AM on 10 Apr 2008 The largest car rental company in the United States, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, announced it's opening six "green" branches in Atlanta, Ga., where 60 percent of the available rental vehicles will be hybrids or other fuel-efficient cars. The agency said the increase in efficient vehicles is due to consumer demand. Enterprise currently has a fleet of about 4,000 hybrids out of a tot ...
Topics: business, cars, hybrids, news, United States (all these topics)

Herald Ford Ford lays out how it will reduce fleet emissions		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Ford Motor Co. has laid out specific plans for reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions of its vehicle fleet at least 30 percent by 2020. The announcement comes in response to shareholder resolutions filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (representing about 300 religious investors) and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, organized by green-minded investment group Ceres. S ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Auto agitprop Carmakers take anti-Cali talking points to 'Blue Dog' House Democrats	David Roberts	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: California, cars, politics, shenanigans, state politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Worse than coal Industrial agrofuels: enemy of the entire planet	biodiversivist	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

'State Farm can get you back behind the wheel'	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, cars, green living, placemaking, TV (all these topics)

The sweet smell of victory Seattle gets five more blocks of bike lanes	biodiversivist	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: bikes, cars, green living, placemaking, Seattle (all these topics)

Don't Make Me Turn This Car Around! U.S. auto sales take a nosedive		02 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 02 Apr 2008 Chrysler and General Motors sold 19 percent less automobiles in the U.S. this March than they did last March, according to new sales figures. Ford reported a sales drop of 14 percent in March 2008 compared to March 2007, and even Toyota, which has reported steady sales through other hard times, reported that sales dropped 10 percent. As has been the case for a while, sales of big ol' gas guzzler ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, economy, news (all these topics)

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