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Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part II Hybrid emissions: Facts and numbers	Vinod Khosla	15 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Having laid out my views in part I, let me turn to the actual data regarding hybrids -- both from an environmental and economic perspective. How do carbon emissions per mile driven compare for various cars? The Volt is expected to be 'less than $30,000' with a 1.0L engine. Compare this to the Corolla, with a 1.8Lengine (peak hp of 126; 31 mpg) and a price of $14,400. It's worth noting that this is in the optimistic, no-gasoline-use scenario for the Volt, ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids (all these topics)

No joke Land-use policy is not a laughing matter	Ryan Avent	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
It was just a fleeting moment amid the hours of presidential debate that have taken place through this longest of election cycles, but it nonetheless warmed my heart. No-longer-a-candidate Bill Richardson, in response to a question on climate policy, said of the fight against climate change: It's going to take a transportation policy that doesn't just build more highways. We have to have commuter rail, light rail, open spaces. We've got to have land-use policies where ...
Topics: cars, politics, public transportation, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part I Prius: Green or greenwash?	Vinod Khosla	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I have been accused of dissing hybrids. I was mostly discussing Prius-type parallel hybrids and all the support they get, when one can get the same carbon reduction by buying a cheaper, similar-sized and -featured car and buying $10 worth of carbon credits. I was objecting to greenwashing (powered by a large marketing machine) that suggests hybrids can solve our problems. Corn ethanol, which has been heavily maligned in the mainstream media, reduces carbon emis ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

The Extreme (plug-in) Hybrid: no breakthrough needed!	Joseph Romm	13 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Here is the plug-in hybrid I test drove a few weeks ago, the Extreme Hybrid by AFS Trinity: I will be running a long article Wednesday on the climate implications of plug-ins in general and this car in particular. But you can read all about the car at this exclusive New York Times piece published today and the AFS Trinity website, which has a YouTube video of me driving the car and discussing why it matters: This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics)

Meals on wheels The Chrysler Town & Country freaks me out	Tom Philpott	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I was leafing through the Feb. Bon Appetit -- the magazine's first 'green' issue; more on that in a future 'Edible Media' post -- when I came upon an ad for something called the Chrysler Town & Country. It shows a white suburban family standing in front of their SUV and McPalace, glowing and looking happy. Dad's holding a football; 2.5 or so grinning brats are tossing around a basketball. You know: sports utility vehicle. All of that is de rigueur -- the brea ...
Topics: cars, consumerism (all these topics)

Major advance in plug-in hybrid design Watch CBS this Saturday for breaking electric-car news	Joseph Romm	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I was just interviewed by CBS for a possible story on plug-in hybrids on Monday. You should tune in to CBS evening news Saturday for the first coverage of what I believe is a major advance in plug-ins -- a car I test drove a few weeks back and will be free to write about here Monday. The New York Times will probably be doing a print story on the car Sunday, which I'll link to. Then CBS may do another story, which is where I would come in. This hybrid technology ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, TV (all these topics)

Tiny Tata Tata Motors unveils world's cheapest car in India		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:16 AM on 10 Jan 2008 Photo: TaTa Motors The world's cheapest car was unveiled in India today by Tata Motors, which hopes that its new $2,500 subcompact will help make car ownership a reality for tens of millions of people. The Tata Nano gets respectable gas mileage, up to 58.8 miles per gallon, and meets India's emissions standards, but its introduction was met by protests from greens fearful that more-accessible autos will ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

With Apologies to Billy Joel General Motors unveils hydrogen-powered concept Cadillac		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:03 AM on 09 Jan 2008 Trading in your Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac? You oughta know by now: at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, General Motors unveiled a concept Caddy powered by a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and battery power. Following the rule that all green car technology must have an insipid name, the new Cadillac Provoq (sigh) is designed to travel some 300 mil ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, hydrogen, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Make electric cars, not ads GM CEO sows doubt about Volt debut date	Joseph Romm	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post by Marc Geller, who blogs at Plugs and Cars, serves on the board of directors of the Electric Auto Association, cofounded Plug In America and DontCrush.com, and appeared in Who Killed The Electric Car. ----- CNNMoney.com reports on an online chat with GM CEO Rick Waggoner. General Motors might not be able to hit its target to have its breakthrough electric-powered car the Chevrolet Volt in production by 2010 ... GM has already ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles (all these topics)

Search: Engine Ford Motor Co. unveils greener engine		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:22 PM on 07 Jan 2008 Ford Motor Co. has unveiled a new engine technology with the unsubtle name of EcoBoost. Ford folks say the engine, which comes in both four-cylinder and six-cylinder, will deliver up to 20 percent better fuel economy, reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent, pay for itself in fuel savings in less than three years, and, of course, not compromise driving performance. The company hopes to have EcoBoost engines in 500, ...
Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Green gap is more of a chasm The presidential debates once again highlight the obvious	Adam Stein	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Matthew Yglesias notes the environmental policy gap between Democratic and Republican presidential contenders: "On the Republican side, we have Mike Huckabee who thinks global warming is a serious problem but doesn't have any particular ideas about dealing with it." It strikes me as worse than that. When I read Andy Revkin's run-down of the weekend's debates, this made me want to get my shrill on: Mike Huckabee called for a billion-dollar prize for the fi ...
Topics: cars, elections, energy, fuel efficiency, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Look, Ma, no brakes Cures for congestion can come cheap	Eric de Place	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
When I was a little kid, I remember being stuck in gridlock on I-5. (Seattle had congested freeways even back in the 1970s, shocking as that sounds.) And I remember being perplexed that all the cars would slow down in heavy traffic. Instead of spacing out so far, I wondered, why couldn't they all just maintain 55 miles per hour and drive inches apart. As long as everyone agreed to drive the same speed and not hit the brakes, heavy traffic wouldn't require us to slow ...
Topics: cars, placemaking (all these topics)

Better Truck Next Year Analysts predict slow auto sales in 2008		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:45 PM on 04 Jan 2008 The U.S. saw a December slump in vehicle sales, and analysts predict that 2008 may be the weakest year for auto sales in the U.S. in at least a decade. (Will it correspond with a boost in public-transportation ridership? Probably not, but we can dream.) Sales of pickups, generally a sure bet in the U.S. market, hit the wall last year; the pickup slump helped bump Ford Motors down to the No. 3 highes ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Automaker lawsuit against Rhode Island can go forward, and more vehicle news		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:14 PM on 02 Jan 2008 If news of states suing the EPA merely whets your appetite for vehicle-emissions news, here's more: Firstly, a federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit from automakers seeking to prevent Rhode Island from regulating vehicle emissions can go forward. Rhode Island officials are left wondering how their situation is different from a very similar lawsu ...
Topics: cars, China, climate, fuel efficiency, Germany, litigation, news, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Masses Marketing Indian car company to sell world's cheapest car		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:58 AM on 02 Jan 2008 India-based Tata Motors plans to launch what it's billing as the world's cheapest car later this year, a five-seater selling for about $2,500. The roughly 58-miles-per-gallon "People's Car" hopes to lure less affluent folks in India and other developing countries who often rely on ultra-cheap two-wheeled motorbikes and scooters for transport. The car will be unveiled later this month at a ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news (all these topics)

The greening of Madison Avenue When do green ads translate to green action?	Tom Philpott	31 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The greening of the U.S. of A. still has a ways to go. We're plundering Canada's tar sands and mining the Midwest's topsoil to keep our cars on the road. We lay waste to ton after ton of Chinese coal to fuel our cheap-stuff habit. And so on. But if our habits remain environmentally ruinous, the strategies we use to sell stuff have gone decidedly green. From today's Wall Street Journal, a wrap-up of the year in advertising: Green is the new black. Madis ...
Topics: Prius, consumerism, green living, cars, shopping, advertising (all these topics)

Fisking Vinod's comment Keeping power broker's hands out of the cookie jar	biodiversivist	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
[[editor's note, by David Roberts] In addition to the updates below, I wanted to make it clear that this post does not meet Grist's standards. Had I been around (I'm on vacation), I would not have published it. I've sent Khosla a personal apology, which he has graciously accepted.] [UPDATE: Dave has requested that I update this post, which I have done below with some clarifications and added links.] Vinod Khosla recently posted this comment titled: 'Numbers Matt ...
Topics: biofuels, business, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, electric vehicles (all these topics)

Vinod Khosla blows his credibility dissing plug-ins Venture-capital star ain't no clean-tech expert	Joseph Romm	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Vinod Khosla may be a 'venture-capital star' who is now putting a lot of money into biofuels -- but he is no clean-tech expert, as he proved during a keynote address at ThinkEquity Partners' ThinkGreen conference in San Francisco. In remarks that should worry anybody relying on his judgment, Khosla said: Forget plug-ins. They are nice toys. But they will not be material to climate change. Very, very wrong. Plug-ins are likely to be a central strategy for dealing with ...
Topics: cars, climate, climate change mitigation, electric vehicles (all these topics)

As States Would Have It Multiple states will sue over EPA decision to not let California regulate vehicle emissions		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:10 PM on 21 Dec 2007 Riled up about the U.S. EPA's decision not to allow California to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions, Golden State Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared he will sue the agency "within the next three weeks." At least eight other states that would have adopted the stricter emissions standards had the EPA allowed it have said they'v ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

How SUVs can save the climate When is a Tundra a better buy than a Prius?	Eric de Place	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This never fails to fascinate me: The chart shows how much fuel is consumed over 15,000 miles by cars of different fuel efficiencies. The curve matters a lot. It means that from the perspective of fuel conservation, it's not terribly important to trade in your Honda Civic to buy a Prius. But it's hugely important to trade in your Dodge Durango for a Toyota Tacoma. I'll use some rough numbers to illustrate. You trade in your Civic, which averages ...
Topics: green living, fuel efficiency, energy, cars, consumerism (all these topics)

EPA: Nay U.S. EPA won't let California enact vehicle greenhouse-gas limits		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 19 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA has denied California the waiver it needed to enact a state law requiring a 30 percent reduction in vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016. Said EPA chief Stephen Johnson, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution -- not a confusing patchwork of state rules -- to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles." But that decision w ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Yes, EV batteries are durable! Menahem Anderman analyzes the state of car-battery technology	Joseph Romm	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest post by Marc Geller, who blogs at Plugs and Cars, serves on the board of directors of the Electric Auto Association, cofounded Plug In America and DontCrush.com, and appeared in Who Killed The Electric Car. ----- Menahem Anderman, PhD, is Mister Battery Consultant. The California Air Resources Board, DOE, and Congress all seem to turn to him to analyze the state of battery technology. His reports always suggest batteries won't quite cut ...
Topics: electric vehicles, hybrids, cars, tech (all these topics)

Ogle Cranky Academics Instead Top British scientist tells women to stop drooling over gas-guzzling males		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:18 PM on 19 Dec 2007 Hey ladies, wondering how to help fight climate change? It's simple: just stop encouraging men who waste resources! In particular, said U.K. climate scientist David King this week, "stop admiring young men in Ferraris." King's comments were immediately pounced upon -- not by feminists, but by Ferrari owners, who protested that their vehicles spew le ...
Topics: cars, climate, energy, funnies, green living, news, sex, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Porsche de Crossy European automakers in a snit over proposed EU emissions cuts		19 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:07 PM on 19 Dec 2007 A European Union proposal to reduce average new-car CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2012 -- and to fine automakers that don't meet the target -- has revved up observers on all sides. German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- a climate Cassandra whose country is home to industry giants including Porsche, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler -- took a public swipe at the unfairness of the plan; conservationi ...
Topics: Big Auto, cars, climate, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, news (all these topics)

So MINI to Choose From Hybrid Technologies converts gas-powered cars to electric		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:09 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Obsessed with MINI Coopers but also like the idea of zero-emission electric vehicles? Have your car and drive it too: a company called Hybrid Technologies guts cars such as the MINI, smart fortwo, and PT Cruiser, and replaces their gas tanks with an electric motor and a stack of lithium batteries. Convinced? Starting in 2008, you'll be able to buy your electric MINI at Wal-Mart -- f ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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