Cars & Transportation
Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 16:00 by muenda
Rail station in Shanghai, China (photo via thetransportpolitic.com)
About a year ago, TreeHugger interviewed Andy Kunz, an urban designer, New Urbanist and rail advocate.
Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 01:53 by muenda
Photo credit: Vivir Mexico
Mexico City's minister of the environment, Martha Delgado, announced Friday that in August a pilot project requiring students to take school buses instead of private vehicles to school at 10 private schools would commence.
Posted Fri, 02/27/2009 - 19:34 by muenda
Part of Ford's "Green Strategy"
Ford is trying to adapt to the new car market (what's left of it, anyway) by bringing over European cars like the frugal Fiesta, and by building new more efficient engines which it calls "EcoBoost".
Posted Fri, 02/27/2009 - 19:07 by muenda
That's a Lot of Tailpipes
It wasn't so long ago that we wrote about China's 168 million motor vehicles (if you count everything), or about how taxes went up on big vehicles (though fuel is heavily subsidized, encouraging waste).
Posted Fri, 02/27/2009 - 18:36 by muenda
"President Clinton announced he was eager to take the Roadster for a ride"
On President Day, Bill Clinton was at a luncheon moderated by Paul Hawken in the only LEED platinum-certified airplane hangar in the world in Burbank, California, to discuss how "clean technology and “green collar” jobs could kick-start our sputtering economy." The 42nd president of the US expressed interest in taking the Tesla Roadster electric car tha
Posted Mon, 12/01/2008 - 19:17 by muenda
photo: Mini USA
You probably heard or read about last week’s announcement that applications for the Mini E field test had been opened and that 500 people in the Los Angeles and New York metro areas would be participating.
Posted Mon, 12/01/2008 - 17:20 by muenda
photo: The Guardian
If you live in the United States, you may have missed the announcement made last Thursday, that the world’s fastest all-electric superbike has been unveiled.
Posted Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:49 by muenda
photo: Native American Biofuels
Considering that many of its higher profile vehicles really suck fuel like there’s no tomorrow, you may not think that the US military concerned itself much with reducing fuel usage, but based on a recent announcement that’s apparently not the case.
Posted Sun, 11/30/2008 - 19:32 by muenda
Image: Michelin
The Holy Grail of Eco-transportation
Could this be the technology that revolutionizes transportation? Will the company that invented the air-pressure tire trump that achievement by making electric cars affordable and practical?
Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 16:08 by muenda
A freakishly quiet moment on Istanbul's roads.
Despite the difficulties involved in comparing gallons to liters and converting from one currency to another, the price of gas in our respective countries somehow seemed to come up frequently as a topic of conversation in my Turkish clas
Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 01:49 by muenda
Image source: Season 3 e2 Transport
Brad Pitt continues to lend his talent on this 3rd season e2 for their latest installment titled "Transport." Episodes begin streaming on the web November 24 and then will air on PBS later this winter.
Posted Tue, 11/18/2008 - 22:08 by muenda
Mass-Transit Gets Funded to the Tune of $75 Billion
November 4th was a good day for democracy in general (most of the voting went off without a hitch) and Democrats in particular.
Posted Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:58 by muenda
2009 Fuel Economy Guide
The U.S. government's 2009 Fuel Economy Guide (pdf) is out and there hasn't been much movement at the top once again this year.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 12:00 by muenda
Bike Sharing Has Gone Global
Bike Sharing--programs that enable multiple users to rent bikes and return them at stations scattered around a city or campus--has truly gone global.
Posted Mon, 10/20/2008 - 20:45 by muenda
Electric Porsche 911
Ruf Automobile GmbH, a German automotive company that has been tuning Porsches for a long time, will make an electric version of the Porsche 911 called the eRUF Model A.
Under the hood, a 150kW (201hp) brushless three phase A/C electric motor that can generate an impressive 480 lb.-ft. of torque and a lithium-ion iron-phosphate battery pack made of 96 160Ah Axeon cells and a sophisticated monitoring system to make sure it doesn't overheat.
Posted Mon, 10/20/2008 - 19:20 by muenda
Finally, Redesigned 2010 Toyota Prius
A member of the PriusChat forums has posted 5 shots of the new redesigned 2010 Toyota Prius, and Toyota has confirmed on its official blog that it was the real deal, though without any other details.
More photos below the fold....
Posted Mon, 10/20/2008 - 17:40 by muenda
Solar-powered rickshaw photo: Cleantech
While it is easily possible to argue about the human rights aspect of pedal-powered rickshaws (there’s certainly a bit of difference in the type of people involved in the biz in India compared to their limited use in the United States...), there’s no denying that from an environmental perspective they’re a better form of transport than burning fossil fuels.
Posted Mon, 10/20/2008 - 14:05 by muenda
Plug-In Hybrids and Electric Vehicles--Lots of Talk, Little Action
For all the talk and excitement about plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), it is still extremely rare to come across one of these cars on the highways.