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Four Electric Vehicles Embark on 80 Day Trip Around the World
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Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012 In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 – three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition. Seeing that renewable energy is becoming decidedly cheaper and that hydrogen fuel cell cars are more commercially viable than they were a [...]..
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PUMA Debuts Mopion Commuter Bike With a Serious Cargo Hold If you’re fed up with the balancing act of taking groceries home on your bike handlebars, or are still a little too proud to go for that front anchored basket, then the PUMA Mopion just may be the stylish cycling solution you’ve been looking for. Although Puma is best known for their sweet kicks, this [...]..
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California Gives Plug-In Hybrids Access to Carpool Lanes Need another reason to buy a plug-in hybrid vehicle How about this: California Governor Arnold Schwarzanegger just signed into law this week a bill that grants HOV lane (aka carpool lane) access to qualifying plug-in hybrid vehicles. Read the rest of California Gives Plug-In Hybrids Access to Carpool Laneshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed ..
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Fast-Charging Electric Buses Coming to Southern California Southern California isn’t exactly known for having the best public transportation system, but Foothill Transit, a public transportation agency in the San Gabriel/Pomona area, is about to get an impressive upgrade: all-electric buses that can charge up in under 10 minutes. Foothill bought three EcoRide BE35 all-electric buses, along with two charging stations. Read the [...]..
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Test Drive: Amp Electrifies the Chevy Equinox Looking for an electric vehicle that is larger and has a greater electric drive range than either the Nissan Leaf or the Chevy Volt There are options — Cincinnati-area-based AMP has started taking orders for their AMP Electric Equinox, which takes a stock model of the 5-seat crossover Chevrolet Equinox, removes the gas tank and [...]..
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Ultra-Efficient Avion to Go From Canada to Mexico on 14 Gallons Fuel efficiency may have only become a hot topic recently, but some people have been thinking about with hypermiling vehicles for decades. Take, for example, inventors Bill Green and Craig Henderson — in 1984 the pair built a car dubbed the “Avion“, which squeezed out 113 mpg in test runs. Now it’s going back [...]..
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Will Coda’s Upstart Electric Car Outperform the Nissan Leaf? With Tesla Roadsters already on the road and Americans poised to place their Nissan Leaf orders tomorrow, Coda Automotive is claiming that its electric sedan will hit the market within months — and that it will trounce the Leaf’s performance for a price difference of just a couple thousand dollars. Coda claims that its new [...]..
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Japan Announces World’s First Solar-Powered Public Bus On September 1, the world’s first solar cell-equipped public bus will hit the streets of Okayama City in Southern Japan. The Sanyo-designed bus is a hybrid diesel-electric vehicle whose rooftop solar cells generate 798 watts, powering the interior LED lights. In the absence of sun, solar power stored in a battery will keep the lights [...]..
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A Super Futuristic Net Zero High Speed Rail Station for Stuttgart Read the rest of A Super Futuristic Net Zero High Speed Rail Station for Stuttgarthttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green transportation, high speed rail, HSR, ingenhoven architects, main station stuttgart, rail station,..
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French Engineers Design a Pedal-Powered Submarine First there was the bicycle, then the pedalo boat, then the pedal-powered aircraft — and now, thanks to a team of French engineers, the world has the pedal-powered submarine. The mini-sub, nicknamed the ‘Scubster’ is entirely human-powered and is designed so that the ‘driver’ only has to pedal to propel it underwater. The craft features [...]..
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Buckeye Bullet Electric Racer Breaks EV Speed Record! Electric cars don’t exactly have a reputation for being serious speed demons — but that could change as Ohio State’s lithium ion-powered Buckeye Bullet 2 just shattered the world land speed record for a battery-powered vehicle. The streamlined electric racer averaged 291 miles per hour in back-to-back tests this week in the Utah Salt Flats. [...]..
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Electric VW Beetle Embarks on Record Trans-Canadian Trip There’s nothing better than a road trip, unless it’s an emission-free road trip where you break a record. A group of students from the University of British Columbia are attempting to set a record for the fastest coast-to-coast drive across Canada in an electric vehicle – in this case, an electrified classic Volkswagen Beetle. Read the [...]..
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Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 is World’s First Diesel-Fueled Hybrid Car There is a battle that rages inside every environmentally conscious driver between getting better mileage with a diesel or to go for a hybrid and cut emissions. Now, you can get the best of both worlds with the Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4, which is the world’s first production diesel-fueled hybrid vehicle. Read the rest [...]..
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NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design Read the rest of NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Designhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: cricket trailer, eco design, garrett finney, green architecture, Green Building, green design, lightweight design, mobile home, tiny house, tiny house design ..
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Is NASCAR Going Green? Out of all the sports in the world, NASCAR is the one that involves pushing fossil-fuel powered vehicles to their limits over and over again — but recently the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing announced several green initiatives and renewable projects. Not only does the sport have the world’s largest solar-power sports facility [...]..
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Dude! Canada to Build a Cannabis Car Here’s one way to get college students to go to class: assign them to build things with cannabis. Several Canadian companies are teaming up with polytechnic schools in Alberta, Quebec and Toronto to make an electric vehicles out of hemp. The cars will hold up to three passengers, reach 55 miles an hour and go [...]..
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Prius Gets Optional Sound Enhancer to Protect Pedestrians The Prius might be good for the earth, but it’s a bane to many pedestrians and bicyclists because it has an almost-silent engine. Many people (especially the blind) have been concerned about accidents — if you don’t hear the car coming, how are you supposed to get out of the way Pedestrian lobbyists even introduced [...]..
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Rural Tennessee Town Gets Solar Parking Lot with EV Chargers Anybody’s who ever said that electric vehicles are only for the bright lights of a big city just got proven wrong by Pulaski, Tennessee — population 7,871. Local business Richland, LLC (with help from federal and state funds) just spent $180,000 on a solar parking lot with EV charging stations. Now that’s what we call a [...]..
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Chinese Traffic Jam Extends 60 Miles and Nine Days If ever there were a case for the importance of good urban planning that includes mass transit, this is it: a 62-mile traffic standstill on a road leading to Beijing is now in its ninth day, with individual drivers caught in it for as long as three days. The cause of the jam — beyond [...]..
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Inflatable Research Lab Rolls Across the Arctic Tundra Designed by Studio Les Bêtes, the Arctic Drifter travels with the prevailing winds of the Arctic Circle, rolling across the landscape gathering images and information about the local environment. When fully inflated, the Drifter presents a 15 m diameter profile, cushioned by Hypalon air-bags (a similar material is used for heavy-duty inflatable boats). Because of [...]..
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