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Cyclone Power Technologies' Licensee in China Completes Initial Milestones in Prototyping Stage

Cyclone Power Technologies' Licensee in China Completes Initial Milestones in Prototyping Stage

Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets: CYPW) announced that its licensee Great Wall Alternative Power Systems Ltd. has completed the first important milestones in the prototyping stages of its License Agreement. These targets include completing the design and IP transition work, and assembling their engineering ... Continue reading

Home Grown Renewable Biodiesel to Power American Idol 2011 Bus Tour

Home Grown Renewable Biodiesel to Power American Idol 2011 Bus Tour

National 16-City “Idol Across America Mobile Experience” Tour Fueled by Biodiesel Washington, DC January 14, 2011; American Idol has announced it is kicking off its 10th season on January 19th with a four-week, 16-city national “Idol Across America Mobile Experience” that will be powered by a clean ... Continue reading

Lord Drayson Accepts Presidency Of The MIA

Lord Drayson Accepts Presidency Of The MIA

London, Jan. 12, 2011: The Right Honourable Lord Drayson of Kensington has accepted the invitation from members to become the new Honorary President of the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA). Lord Astor of Hever stepped down from the role upon his appointment as a Defence Minister in the new UK Government, following ... Continue reading

Bright Future for Biodiesel Gains Focus at NAIAS

Bright Future for Biodiesel Gains Focus at NAIAS

Automakers Back Biodiesel, America’s First Commercially Available ‘Advanced Biofuel’ DETROIT, Mich., January 10, 2011 – The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit has long been known as THE event of the year for the latest vehicle technologies and innovations, setting the pace and ... Continue reading

Maritz Automotive Research Group Study Shows Growing Consumer Awareness about Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Maritz Automotive Research Group Study Shows Growing Consumer Awareness about Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Research released today by Maritz Research demonstrates that while consumer awareness about alternative fuel vehicles continues to grow, only about one in five consumers state they are “very familiar�?? with any alternative-fuel technologies. The research also indicates that consumers have relati ... Continue reading

Advanced Biofuels Would Receive Critical Support from Proposed Legislation, BIO Says

Advanced Biofuels Would Receive Critical Support from Proposed Legislation, BIO Says

advanced biofuel producers secure financing for construction of first-of-a-kind projects. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Mike Castle (R-Del.) for introducing the “Oil Independence for a Stronger America Act of 2010,�?? which will help th ... Continue reading

Diesel Technology Forum Welcomes Chrysler Group As Its Newest Member

Diesel Technology Forum Welcomes Chrysler Group As Its Newest Member

Diesel Technology Forum Welcomes Chrysler Group LLC As Its Newest Member Washington, D.C. – Chrysler Group LLC has become the newest member of the Diesel Technology Forum (DTF), the nation’s leading advocate for the use of clean diesel technologies. “We are extremely pleased t ... Continue reading

OriginOil Announces Successful First Phase of Commercial Algae-fuel Pilot Program - VIDEO ENHANCED

OriginOil Announces Successful First Phase of Commercial Algae-fuel Pilot Program - VIDEO ENHANCED

LOS ANGELES--OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced the successful completion of the first phase of its commercial pilot program, earning high praise for quality and performan ... Continue reading

Auto Execs Say Car of the Future Won't Be Cheap

Auto Execs Say Car of the Future Won't Be Cheap

Washington DC December 6, 2010; The AIADA newsletter reported that it all sounds so easy: Impose higher average gas mileage standards on the auto industry. Motorists will not only save money, but America will wean itself off oil. There’s just one problem. In meeting the new regulations, cars could cost thousands m ... Continue reading

Lame-Duck Congress Goes from Bad to Worse on Ethanol Policy - Prevents Low Cost Flex Fuel Availability

Lame-Duck Congress Goes from Bad to Worse on Ethanol Policy - Prevents Low Cost Flex Fuel Availability

Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) issued the following statement in response to an ethanol proposal floated by Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee. The draft legislation would cut the U.S. ethanol subsidy (known as VEETC or the blenders' tax credit) from 45-cents per gallon to 36-cents ... Continue reading

Energy Vision Presents Energy Vision Awards at Its Fourth Anniversary Celebration

Energy Vision Presents Energy Vision Awards at Its Fourth Anniversary Celebration

NEW YORK--Energy Vision, a national non-profit organization that promotes the benefits of clean, renewable petroleum-free transportation fuels, presented its 2010 Energy Vision Leadership Awards to Andrew J. Littlefair, President and CEO of Clean Energy , and to Smithtown, New York’s Environmental Direct ... Continue reading

The New Volkswagen EOS and TDI Models On Stage in L.A.

The New Volkswagen EOS and TDI Models On Stage in L.A.

<p><a href="/cybercast/2010laautoshow"> Complete 2010 LA Auto Show Coverage</a></p> </p><p>By Henny Hemmes <br>Senior European Editor <br>The Auto Channel </p><p>LOS ANGELES, November 19, 2010; Volkswagen AG flew a group of German journalists to California, to give them the first look at the second generation of the Eo ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: Under-the-hood Automotive Electronic Systems - 2011 Edition

Research and Markets: Under-the-hood Automotive Electronic Systems - 2011 Edition

DUBLIN--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a0bd86/underthehood_aut) has announced the addition of the "Under-the-hood Automotive Electronic Systems - 2011 Edition" report to their offering. “Under-the-hood Automotive Electronic Systems - 2011 Edition” Global and regional trends f ... Continue reading

Rentech's Synthetic RenDiesel® Fuels Audi A3 TDI During L.A. Auto Show Green Cars Ride & Drive Event

Rentech's Synthetic RenDiesel® Fuels Audi A3 TDI During L.A. Auto Show Green Cars Ride & Drive Event

LOS ANGELES--Rentech, Inc. announced that its synthetic RenDiesel® fuel will power an Audi A3 TDI during today’s Green Cars LA Auto Show Ride & Drive event, hosted by Green Car Journal. During the event, credentialed journalists will experience the performance of synthetic RenDiesel fuel in Green ... Continue reading

2010 Los Angeles Auto Show: Scion Announces Pricing for xB Release Series 8.0

2010 Los Angeles Auto Show: Scion Announces Pricing for xB Release Series 8.0

PR Newswire TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2010 TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2010 -- Scion announced today that it will be displaying its latest limited-production vehicle, the 2011 xB Release Series 8.0 (xB RS 8.0), in the Scion booth at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Nov. 17-28, 2010. The xB RS 8.0 will begin arriving in deale ... Continue reading

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