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Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Concludes Knockout Qualifying Stage; Announces Teams Moving into Finals

Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Concludes Knockout Qualifying Stage; Announces Teams Moving into Finals

15 Vehicles from 12 Teams Continue in Pursuit of Ten Million Dollars in Prize Money for Super Fuel-Efficient Cars BROOKLYN, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a $10 million competition to inspire a new generation of vehicles capable of achieving 100 MPGe (mile ... Continue reading

Tesla IPO Share Price Surges - VIDEO ENHANCED

Tesla IPO Share Price Surges - VIDEO ENHANCED

NEW YORK June 30, 2010; Tesla Motors got off to a flying start on Wall Street yesterday as shares in the US electric carmaker soared more than 40 percent over its initial public offering price. Shares in Tesla, the first US auto manufacturer to go public since Ford in 1956, gained 6.89 dollars, or 40.5 percent, to clos ... Continue reading

Wind Turbine Blade Comes to DC with Message from Americans to Federal Policymakers: "We Want Action on Clean Energy Now"

Wind Turbine Blade Comes to DC with Message from Americans to Federal Policymakers: "We Want Action on Clean Energy Now"

WASHINGTON--Today, as the president and congressional leaders meet at the White House on energy policy, GE Energy and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) delivered a petition from Americans across the country in the form of a 131-foot wind turbine blade. The blade traveled more than 4,000 miles through 10 state ... Continue reading

New Michelin Tires Designed For EV's and Hybrids

New Michelin Tires Designed For EV's and Hybrids

SEE ALSO: EV-MOTORING.COM By Henny Hemmes Senior European Editor Amsterdam Bureau The Auto Channel Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Recently, during the latest edition of the Challenge Bibendum, Michelin presented two new tire variants. During the event, which was organized for the tenth time, the automotive industry shows its l ... Continue reading

SAE International Introduces New Standard to Measure Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Economy of Hybrid Vehicles

SAE International Introduces New Standard to Measure Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Economy of Hybrid Vehicles

WARRENDALE, Pa., June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the increase in both popularity and production of hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) worldwide, attention often turns to the exhaust emissions and fuel economy of such vehicles. A new revised standard from SAE International provides the procedures ... Continue reading

Dave's Dittys

Dave's Dittys

Dave is a licensed auto mechanic with over 40 years in the trade. For the past 24 years he has operated Dr. H. Honda Specialists in Etobcoke(Toronto). Dave the neighborhood mechanic can be heard answering his neighbors car questions on AM740 radio each Saturday at 9 AM. Some of these conversations will also be publishe ... Continue reading

Dave Redinger - The Neighborhood Mechanic

Dave Redinger - The Neighborhood Mechanic

Dave is a licensed auto mechanic with over 40 years in the trade. For the past 24 years h has operated Dr. H. Honda Specialists in Etobcoke(Toronto). Dave the neighborhood mechanic can be heard answering his neighbors car questions on AM740 radio each Saturday at 9 AM. Some of these conversations will also be published ... Continue reading

American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. Begins Construction of Second Clean Fuels Production Plant

American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. Begins Construction of Second Clean Fuels Production Plant

NEW YORK, June 28 -- American Jianye Greentech Holdings Ltd. (OTC:AJGH) (BULLETIN BOARD: AJGH) (the "Company"), which is engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing and distributing alcohol-based automobile fuel products in the People's Republic of China, manufactured by its affiliate Tieling Jianye Greentech ... Continue reading

Secretary of State Launches UK Production of the First Full Hybrid Vehicle in Europe

Secretary of State Launches UK Production of the First Full Hybrid Vehicle in Europe

Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP, UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, will officially launch the start of production of the all-new Auris Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD), during a visit to Toyota's Burnaston Plant, Derbyshire, today. ... Continue reading

4,400 Chevrolet Volt Owners to be Eligible for Free Home Charging Stations

4,400 Chevrolet Volt Owners to be Eligible for Free Home Charging Stations

DETROIT, June 17 -- -- When the Volt goes on sale later this year, buyers will be eligible for a 240-volt charge station, and home installation in some cases -- Part of Department of Energy project to install approximately 15,000 240-volt home charge stations across the U.S. -- Data collected from the charge stations w ... Continue reading

Stanford Graduate School of Business Research: Toward Electric Cars and Clean Coal

Stanford Graduate School of Business Research: Toward Electric Cars and Clean Coal

STANFORD, Calif.--What will it take for major world powers to move toward environmentally friendly technology such as electric cars and clean coal? “the capacity to understand what's in the mind of strategic decision-makers” Professor Robert A. Burgelman and Andrew S. Grove, a lecturer in management and forme ... Continue reading

Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Charging Station for Electric Vehicles Compatible With the Nissan LEAF

Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Charging Station for Electric Vehicles Compatible With the Nissan LEAF

CAMPBELL, Calif.--Coulomb Technologies today announced that its ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles has an Underwriter Laboratories listed CT2100 product family that is compatible with the Nissan LEAF. Coulomb, which has the largest established installation of networked charging statio ... Continue reading

Korea Approves Patent on Critical Component of Cyclone Power Technologies Green Engine

Korea Approves Patent on Critical Component of Cyclone Power Technologies Green Engine

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.--Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets:CYPW) announced today that the Korean Intellectual Property Office has issued a notice of decision to grant the company a patent on the steam generator of its award-winning, heat regenerative external combustion engine. “This is very rare for such a smal ... Continue reading

2011 Honda CR-Z On Sale August 24@$19,200

2011 Honda CR-Z On Sale August 24@$19,200

TORRANCE, Calif. June 23, 2010; The all-new 2011 Honda CR-Z sport hybrid coupe is set to debut at dealers on August 24, 2010, with a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) starting at $19,200, plus a destination and handling charge1 of $750, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today. Developed as a stylish, ... Continue reading

Toyota: Hybrids By The Hundred For Lewis Day

Toyota: Hybrids By The Hundred For Lewis Day

More than 250 Toyota Prius for leading courier and passenger car services ... Continue reading

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