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Toyota's foresight pays off, part two Why hybrids beat diesels	Joseph Romm	19 May 2008	Gristmill
The best thing about the Prius is that it achieves its high fuel economy without sacrificing size or performance and, most importantly for global warming, without being a diesel. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this point, so let me elaborate. Bottom Line: If you care about global warming, don't buy a diesel car (certainly not in this country), and if you must buy a diesel, only get a new one with a very good particle trap. [Does this mean that Europe's ma ...
Topics: business, cars, energy, hybrids, Prius, shopping (all these topics)

High gas prices, healthy new habits Gallup shows Americans making smart choices to break the gas habit.	Anna Fahey	16 May 2008	Gristmill
It took soaring fuel prices for old habits to shift. But they're shifting alright. Just take a look at these poll results -- Gallup finds that big numbers of Americans are making changes in their daily lives to deal with higher gas prices. Here's a snapshot: Most telling, perhaps, is that 7 out of 10 poll respondents are considering a more fuel-efficient car. That's a change that'll help control energy costs for years to come, no matter what happens to the price of gasol ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, gas prices, green living, shopping (all these topics)

Toyota's foresight pays off, part one Prius sales top one million	Joseph Romm	16 May 2008	Gristmill
The Toyota Prius is 'the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car to hit 1 million in sales.' More than half of those were sold in North America. Toyota's goal is to sell more than one million per year. I own one and must say it is a terrific car. I get about 45 miles per gallon combined city and highway -- double the mpg of my old Saturn, which was not as big. I think the comments from the Wired blog bear repeating, considering how GM (and ...
Topics: cars, green living, Prius (all these topics)

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
Suppose you're a commodity trader. Someone offers you a future contract to buy gasoline at $2.99/gallon for the next three years. If you think that you can sell that gasoline for more than that, you might think this is a license to print money, and would therefore pay for that privilege. Which raises the following questions: How much would you pay for that future 'strip'? Is the answer to Question 1 more or less than a Chrysler?
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
Via the Sunday Seattle Times: Danny Westneat has wrecked his car and needs a new ride. Now, I don't expect it to be easy being green. But this is ridiculous. What was hailed as our leading green alternative to petroleum [biodiesel] is now an affront to humanity? I wonder which print media gave him this false impression that biodiesel was our leading green alternative? But when we asked around about biodiesel, it didn't take long before the scolding started. Biodie ...
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
Hi Umbra, After reading your article on the amazing Thermos, coffee, and bicycle commuting, I thought I should alert you (if you're not already alerted) to the Xtracycle (or S.U.B.) as a means for everyday, super-utilitarian biking. I replaced my car with one of these about eight months ago, and find that meeting new "can I haul that on my bike?" challenges is great fun -- not to mention the sense of accomplishment and ...
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
Hi Umbra, Love your column. I'm a daily bicycle commuter and coffee achiever. Here's a cool mug and handlebar mount [for the reader who asked about transporting coffee]. Cheers, John Denver, Colo. Dearest John, Thank you. Take a look at the Soma coffee mount John suggests, everyone -- it got rave reviews from beaucoup readers. Another fun beverage-toting suggestion was a whiskey-flask holder from Ahearne Cycles in Portland (than ...
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
Is $3.25 to $3.50 a gallon the long-awaited for inflexion point for driving a shift in U.S. car-buying habits? Obviously we can't know for sure, but the Detroit News reported that 'cars outsold light trucks' in March. (One auto industry insider told me yesterday that this was only the second time that has ever happened in some two decades.) Yes, the recession no doubt had an impact on the sales of big, expensive vehicles. But since gasoline prices are going to mo ...
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
As I reported earlier today, electric automaker Think -- in partnership with a couple of venture capital firms -- will be opening a North American branch next year. I just got back from test driving the crash-tested, highway-ready (70 mph top speed) Think two-seater. Pretty damn sweet! Feels and handles exactly like a normal car -- and I'm told it's going to retail for around $20,000. You could have one next year. The one I drove looked more or less like this one: ...
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
Ray Lane, the managing partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is about to announce some news. (He's up on stage with Jan-Olaf Willums, CEO of Think Global AS, and Wilber James, managing general partner of RockPort Capital Partners.) Ah. He's launching Think North America -- bringing Think vehicles to the U.S. Hundreds of the cars will reach the states this year, mainly for use in fleets. After that they'll be offered to consumers, first in Californ ...
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
The following post is by Earl Killian, guest blogger at Climate Progress. ----- California's AB 32 cap on greenhouse gas emissions has its regulatory agencies working to find a set of measures that will amount to savings enough to cut 2020 emissions by about 30 percent. Since 12 years is too short to change California's vehicle fleet or its power plants, myriad measures are being considered, each rather small but hoped to make a difference cumulatively. One such ef ...
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
Remember that dumb State Farm ad? Here's another of the same ilk: State Farm bowed to pressure and pulled their ad. Will the same happen to Farmers? (via Streetsblog)
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
After I argued against McCain's summer gas-tax freeze, I received an email, the basic thrust of which was, 'but everybody knows a gasoline tax is regressive, so how can progressives endorse it?' Well, as we will see, everybody doesn't know a gasoline tax is regressive. In fact: The poor are more likely not to buy any gasoline (i.e., to not own a car at all), poor families own fewer cars (and much fewer of the fuel-inefficient SUVs and minivans), and the poor t ...
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
Was looking for an electric vehicle and this came up. Seriously -- six batteries? And a suicide trunk?Part of me kind of wants it.
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, placemaking (all these topics)

State Farm pulls bike-bashing ad	David Roberts	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Remember that stupid ad from State Farm, where the natty professional laments that gas prices have gotten so high he's been forced -- gasp -- to ride a bike to work? Oh, the humiliation. Well, apparently the hubbub about the ad got so heated that it made its way back to State Farm. In response, they have pulled the ad. Streetsblog has the details, and deserves credit for generating the kind of blowback that might make the next big corporation think twice before dispa ...
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
It's no secret that American auto companies are working overtime to impede California's ability to set its own tailpipe emission standards. They've had a few setbacks in court, but they've got the U.S. EPA in their back pocket -- witness Johnson's refusal to grant Cali's waiver. There's been some talk recently about Congress overriding Johnson, so car companies are now doing a full-court lobbying press on Congress. Recently they briefed the so-called "Blue Dog&q ...
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
Apologies for the terrible photo, but it was pouring (and snowing) when I took it. That's Duff Badgley again, the dirty hippie, protesting at a Safeway store. You can see the marquee advertising the price of B-5 (5 percent) biodiesel at $4.20 a gallon. Biofuel proponents are not going to like having their fuel compared to coal, but think about it. Most of the CO2 in the United States comes from liquid fossil fuels. Replace them with today's biofuels, and you would ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

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