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Green Car Journal Brings Advanced Vehicles to Environmental Journalists

Green Car Journal Brings Advanced Vehicles to Environmental Journalists

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 28 -- At the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists opening today in Austin, Texas, the mission is to network and learn how to improve the quality and accuracy of environmental reporting. Complementing this is the mission of Green Car Journal, which seeks to encourage underst ... Continue reading

UQM Hybrid Electric Propulsion System on U.S. Army Future Heavy Truck Demonstrator

UQM Hybrid Electric Propulsion System on U.S. Army Future Heavy Truck Demonstrator

FREDERICK, Colo., Sept. 27 -- UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM) , a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that it has been selected by Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. to provide a UQM(R) hybrid electric propulsion system for use on a U.S. Army future heavy truck demonstrator. The custom UQM(R ... Continue reading

Clean Diesel Technologies Acquires Worldwide Intellectual Property Rights to Low-Cost Diesel Particulate Filter Technology

Clean Diesel Technologies Acquires Worldwide Intellectual Property Rights to Low-Cost Diesel Particulate Filter Technology

STAMFORD, Conn.--Sept. 27, 2005-- Company Will Offer Commercial Partnership Opportunities for Worldwide Manufacturing and Distribution Licenses Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:CDTI)(AIM:CDT)(AIM:CDTS), a developer of chemical and technological solutions to reduce harmful engine emissions, today announced that it ... Continue reading

Cummins Partners with Blue Bird Corporation

Cummins Partners with Blue Bird Corporation

COLUMBUS, Ind.--Sept. 26, 2005--Cummins Inc. today announced a new partnership with Blue Bird Corporation. "We're extremely pleased that Blue Bird has selected us as a preferred partner," said Jim Kelly, President - Cummins Engine Business. "Blue Bird customers will enjoy new levels of reliability, safety and performan ... Continue reading

MDEChem Details Results of the U.S. EPA ETV Test on EnviroFuels Diesel Fuel Catalyzer

MDEChem Details Results of the U.S. EPA ETV Test on EnviroFuels Diesel Fuel Catalyzer

HOUSTON--Sept. 26, 2005--MDEChem, Inc. (PINK SHEETS:MDKM) a Research and Development Company is pleased to provide a summary analysis of the U.S., EPA ETV (Environmental Technology Verification) program related to testing of EnviroFuels Diesel Fuel Catalyzer. The ETV Report definitively demonstrates that EnviroFuels Di ... Continue reading

Energy Conversion Devices Inc; Leads Alternative Energy Generation and Storage and Advanced Information Technologies

Energy Conversion Devices Inc; Leads Alternative Energy Generation and Storage and Advanced Information Technologies

Overview Hydrogen energy technology has been a part of our scientific work since our founding in 1960. Hydrogen is the ultimate fuel. It is clean, efficient, and yields more energy per unit of weight than any other existing fuel. Because hydrogen is a major component of water and of hydrocarbons, it is in abundant supp ... Continue reading

DIRECT-INJECTION CREATES MORE EFFICIENT GASOLINE ENGINES

DIRECT-INJECTION CREATES MORE EFFICIENT GASOLINE ENGINES

2001 Cleaner, Safer, Sooner releases DEARBORN, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 21, 2001- Direct injection technology originally developed for diesel engines has shown potential fuel economy improvements of approximately 20 percent when adapted by Ford Motor Company engineers for gasoline engines. This technology - called DISI for dir ... Continue reading

Bill Ford Remarks On Innovation

Bill Ford Remarks On Innovation

<i>Editors Mote: Earlier this week Bill Ford Chair of the Ford Motor Company discusseed his vision of Ford'd future. Here is the complete speech.</i><p> Dearborn, Michigan<br> September 21, 2005<p> Thank you, Gerhardt. Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome the people here in the room and everyone watching on our FC ... Continue reading

3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000

3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janice Halpern, classic.pr@verizon.net, 508-698-6810 3rd Annual AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival Draws 4,000 Brookline, MA-September 23, 2005-With high gas prices and dramatic weather systems leading the news, the AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival introduced a rec ... Continue reading

Congressman Osborne Calls for Probe on Ethanol Blended Fuels; GM Touts Ethanol-Powered SUVs

Congressman Osborne Calls for Probe on Ethanol Blended Fuels; GM Touts Ethanol-Powered SUVs

Washington DC September 22, 2005: The AIADA newsletter reported that citing concerns from officials in his state that prices for ethanol blended fuels are being inflated, Nebraska Congressman Tom Osborne (R-03) called on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate discrepancies between what oil companies pay ... Continue reading

The Answer? Engineuity Presents a Breakthrough in Alternative Fuel - Bye Bye Oil?

The Answer? Engineuity Presents a Breakthrough in Alternative Fuel - Bye Bye Oil?

ASHKELON, Israel, September 22 -- Engineuity R&D Ltd has developed a unique technology for hydrogen production on board vehicles. The technology overcomes all obstacles presently associated with hydrogen. Concerns regarding safety, fuel distribution and storage are irrelevant since the hydrogen is produced onboard as i ... Continue reading

Clean Diesel Technologies Announces New European Licensing Opportunities

Clean Diesel Technologies Announces New European Licensing Opportunities

STAMFORD, Conn.--Sept. 21, 2005--Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:CDTI) (AIM:CDT) (AIM:CDTS), a developer of chemical and technological solutions to reduce harmful engine emissions, today announced new European licensing opportunities for combination EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) and SCR (Selective Catalytic Red ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel Powers School Bus Transportation with Mercedes-Benz 900 Medium-Duty Engine

Detroit Diesel Powers School Bus Transportation with Mercedes-Benz 900 Medium-Duty Engine

DETROIT, Sept. 20 -- Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) supports the local economy and school transportation across the United States with its Mercedes-Benz 900 medium-duty diesel engine, featured in Thomas Built School buses. Detroit Diesel and Freightliner LLC recently announced that U.S. assembly of the MBE 900 will b ... Continue reading

Hybrid Vehicles to Face Competition from Diesel Powertrains

Hybrid Vehicles to Face Competition from Diesel Powertrains

LONDON, September 20 -- - Greater Cost Efficiencies Essential to Fuel Uptake of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Research into hybrid and electric vehicles is reaching an all time high in Europe, with most companies in the automotive industry working towards developing their own versions of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) ... Continue reading

Joint Venture to Produce Cummins ISM Heavy-Duty Engines in China

Joint Venture to Produce Cummins ISM Heavy-Duty Engines in China

BEIJING--Sept. 16, 2005--Cummins Inc. and China's Shaanxi Automobile Group Company Ltd. today signed an agreement to form a 50/50 joint venture company, Xi'an Cummins Engine Company (XCEC), to produce the Cummins ISM 11-liter heavy-duty engine in Xi'an, the capital city of western China's Shaanxi Province. The ISM is o ... Continue reading

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