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Zero Motorcycles sees huge sales increase, announces National Demo Day
Odd little Mia Electric signs up for French car-sharing duty
Is it the Forone? Smart will start e-bike deliveries in UK this month
Bridgestone ratchets up "One Team, One Planet Spent" tire-recycling program
Fisker Karma to blame for garage fire in Texas?
Today is European Car Free Day
China to Buy 60 Million Electric Bikes and Scooters in 2018
Hydrogen Hyundais Cross Europe, Longest Hydrogen Journey Ever
The Easy Way Out: Toyota Announces $49,800 RAV4 EV
Whole Foods stops selling unsustainable seafood
Green News Daily: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Forget the paperless office: Here's how to get a less-paper office
Picarro heads to the supermarket to analyze nature's barcode
London's Congestion Pricing Has Transformed Transportation in the City for the Better!
How P2 can change the state of green manufacturing
Toyota Introduces the RAV4 EV (With Tesla DNA Under the Hood)
Another report shows US firms lag Europeans on sustainability
New J1772 Standard Could Charge EV Batteries in 15-20 Minutes
'Rocket' Electric Drag Motorcycle Hits 201 MPH in Under 7 Seconds
Los Angeles, Now the ELECTRIC Car Capital of America | EVS26
Driving the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Mercedes | EVS26
Bike Share Becomes Big Business - Citibank Snags NYC's System
Saab launch greenest ever 9-3 range
Peugeot iOn to be offered on lease
Volvo latest DRIVe 99g/km models
M35h hybrid: Efficiency and performance
Popularity of UK car clubs grows
World premiere of Saab's first EV
Govt invests £9.5m in REEVolution
New smart fortwo launched in UK
EVergreen to launch smart charger
A successful 'Eco Car Spectacular'
A garden party to make a difference
Lexus' CT200h small luxury hybrid
Honda's new Jazz hybrid supermini
Comment: What do green cars mean?
Sustainability becoming a 'must have' for IT services
Twist n' Gone 2012 is Almost Upon Us
Car2go Launches Car Sharing in Berlin - Why are the Germans Chuckling?
Toyota Still Looking To Move Prius Production To U.S.
Lessons from Ceres: How to expand corporate leadership
Green News Daily: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Get ready: Why the future of corporate reporting is integrated
Tesla's Electric Car Battery Tech Could End Up Powering Your Home
Can McDonald's lead in green?
New Cable Car to Be Built Across the Thames for Olympics
Congress is Buying USPS Employee Votes - with YOUR Money
2016 Toyota Prius Hybrid to Be Made in U.S.
VERGE Executive Series: Q&A with Ford's John Viera
China vs. the World: Great Wall Unveils Global SUV
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Brewing a greener cuppa joe at Starbucks and Thanksgiving Coffee Despite the many differences between the Fortune 500 coffee retailer and the family-owned artisan roaster based in Mendocino, Calif., the two companies are committed to working with growers to source coffee beans as sustainably and ethically as possible. ..
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Can smart cars pull out of the slow lane? Governments are key to fostering smarter cars, according to carmakers struggling to make progress. For now, speed bumps are keeping the market from accelerating as quickly as many would like.  ..
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Materials' scarcity and rising costs are fuel for a VERGE future New technologies and emerging business pressures are combining to create an unprecedented era of change, according to speakers at today's VERGE conference. ..
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How your firm can adjust as energy gets more & less carbon-intensive For companies thinking about climate change and energy, what are the implications of two countervailing trends, the rise of energy with lower carbon content, and the concurrent rise of high-carbon energy ..
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Sustainability through software: Q&A with SAP's Peter Graf In advance of SAP's largest user conference this week, Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf spoke with GreenBiz about decoupling emissions from revenue growth, employee engagement and what's next. ..
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Ford Begins Taking Orders for 2013 C-Max Hybrid The C-MAX is a compact hybrid utility vehicle and the Ford's first dedicated line of hybrids. The 2013 C-MAX Hybrid will be available this fall with a base price of $25,995...
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Prius C Earns 'Top Pick' Safety Rating from IIHS The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety busted up a few Prius C hybrids to see how they held up in crashes. Here's what they found.....
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Goodbye Lexus HS 250h Hybrid, We Hardly Knew Ya It seems like it was just yesterday that Lexus introduced the HS 250h hybrid, the first dedicated luxury hybrid (like the Prius, there's no non-hybrid version of the HS 250h). ..
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Tesla to Begin Repaying Department of Energy Loans by End of 2012 Against all the odds, Tesla is about this ship the first Model S electric sedans to customers and the company will begin repaying its debts by the end of this year...
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Portland's Bikeways: 30 Years of Evolution in 1 Map It shows the evolution of Portland's bikeways from 1980 to the present, and is a good visual reminder that great biking cities are made deliberately; they don't start out already formed, people have to put in the effort of making them bike friendly...
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Peak Roads? Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; ‘Back to Stone Age’ WSJ Photo source: Paweł Kuźniar Copyright © 2012 GroovyGreen.com - Start Today :: Save Tomorrow. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you [...]..
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A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30.  Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough.  [...]..
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Buying An Electric Car? You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now. 2010 will most likely go down as the year electric cars were (once again) made available to the public through Big Auto. Both Nissan and Chevy have plans to release the Leaf and Volt respectively — and both focus on getting energy from being plugged in. (Although the Volt can charge its battery utilizing its [...]..
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The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife How’s this for a unique and eco-friendly way to get from the funeral home to your final resting place Wade Lind, owner of Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene, Oregon came up with the “bike hearst” as an option for those really looking to limit their impact once they’ve passed on. Let’s hope there aren’t many [...]..
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Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes For A Great Suit-Commute It’s been several months now since I’ve had the opportunity to test out the iZip Enlightened hybrid-electric bicycle — and the enthusiasm present with my first impressions has certainly not waned. As I mentioned earlier, living in Ithaca, NY means having to negotiate several steep inclines to get to work. Most bikers around here either [...]..
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House Committee votes to end military biofuel programs Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA So about those plans for more military biofuel production... A Republican-led group within the House Armed Services Committee recently voted to ban the U.S. Department of Defense from paying more for biofuels used for military vehicles than regular fuels, putting at risk hundreds of millions of dollars worth programs approved during the past few years for the pu..
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BYU wins SAE 'Formula Hybrid' competition Filed under: Ethanol, Green Culture, Hybrid, Lightweight We can't say we've ever seen a Toyota Prius rip through a slalom course like this, either. A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University won the 2012 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula Hybrid competition at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after finishing second last year. BYU's "Hybrid Blue" used its 100-horsepower, 450-foot-pounds-of-torque hybrid powertrain to wi..
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Amp opens first dealership in Cincinnati Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA, Amp Electric Vehicles Amp, the Ohio-based maker of battery-electric SUVs, has opened its first dealership in Cincinnati and said first deliveries would start by year end. Amp of Cincinnati opened last week and showed off both its Jeep Grand Cherokee- and Mercedes-Benz ML350-based battery-electric vehicles. The dealership has started taking $5,000 deposits for the SUVs, which Amp says have a single-charge range of a..
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GM says the Volt has saved a supertanker of gas Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Chevrolet, GM That's one small step for man, and one less really big barge full of fuel for mankind. That's basically what General Motors' Chevrolet division is saying in its latest effort to pitch the Volt extended-range plug-in as a way for prospective drivers to save both money and the earth. Chevrolet estimates that Volt drivers have saved more than 2.1 million gallons of gas - or one supertanker - by ..
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EVS: Utah State University quietly working on in-road wireless charging Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, EVS If you had to name one of the biggest game-change moments that the electric vehicle could bring to the world, try this one: Every prior attempt to electrify the car has assumed the vehicle would be the energy carrier. By comparison, the grid is much more efficient at moving energy from point A to point B, so if you can make dynamic charging safe and affordable, you..
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Toyota Prius sales top 2 million Toyota is celebrating another milestone for the Prius, with worldwide sales passing two million since the original hybrid was launched in 1997. Across three generations, approximately 2,012,000 units have been sold in more than 70 countries and regions, up to the end of September this year. UK sales during the same period were 38,600. Based on these volumes, Toyota calculates that the Prius has saved around 11 million tonnes of CO2 emission..
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Mitsubishi produce European i-MiEV Mitsubishi today announced the start of production of its European-spec i-MiEV new-generation electric vehicle along with production of Peugeot Citroen's Peugeot iOn and Citroen C-ZERO at its Mizushima Plant in Japan. Mitsubishi have been producing and selling the Japan-spec i-MiEV since last year. With the production of the European-spec models, full-fledged export begins. Before March 2011, Mitsubishi forecasts overseas sales reaching 5,000 ..
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RAC Future Car Challenge 2010 November 6th is set to be a big day for the RAC Future Car Challenge. 60 zero- and low-carbon cars will be driving from Brighton to London – the number of entries has exceeded RAC's expectations, establishing one of the largest events of its kind. Being held for the first time, the Challenge is to be a public showcase for low carbon vehicles. Open to the latest electric, hybrid and low emission passenger cars, light commercial vehicles a..
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Passat BlueMotion sets new world record A Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by a standard production passenger car on a single tank of fuel. The attempt, carried out by a team from The Sunday Times, involved driving from Maidstone in Kent to the South of France and back. The Passat BlueMotion finally ran out of fuel close to Calais after completing a distance of 1,526.63 miles. The route mainly followed French autor..
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Kia launches EcoDynamics range To showcase its EcoDynamics range of fuel-saving vehicles, Kia Motors is displaying three new 'ultra-low' CO2 models in its 'Green Zone' at the Paris Motor Show. The innovative trio, Eco cee'd, Eco Venga and Sportage (Mild Hybrid), have significantly reduced CO2 emissions – down to just 94, 114 and 117 g/km respectively. Whilst the Eco Venga is destined for production later in 2010, the Eco cee'd and Sportage are concepts at this stage...
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Peak Roads? Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; ‘Back to Stone Age’ WSJ Photo source: Paweł Kuźniar Copyright © 2012 GroovyGreen.com - Start Today :: Save Tomorrow. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you [...]..
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A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30.  Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough.  [...]..
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Buying An Electric Car? You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now. 2010 will most likely go down as the year electric cars were (once again) made available to the public through Big Auto. Both Nissan and Chevy have plans to release the Leaf and Volt respectively — and both focus on getting energy from being plugged in. (Although the Volt can charge its battery utilizing its [...]..
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The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife How’s this for a unique and eco-friendly way to get from the funeral home to your final resting place Wade Lind, owner of Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene, Oregon came up with the “bike hearst” as an option for those really looking to limit their impact once they’ve passed on. Let’s hope there aren’t many [...]..
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Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes For A Great Suit-Commute It’s been several months now since I’ve had the opportunity to test out the iZip Enlightened hybrid-electric bicycle — and the enthusiasm present with my first impressions has certainly not waned. As I mentioned earlier, living in Ithaca, NY means having to negotiate several steep inclines to get to work. Most bikers around here either [...]..
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The New Gas 2: More Buttons, More Tanks, and More Fun! Since its inception in 2007, Gas 2 has been about a world coming to terms with its addiction to oil. We’ve talked about conservation, biofuels, clean diesels, electric cars, and the politics surrounding them all. Want to hear a secret about all that OK, I’ll tell you. The fun parts of the future of fuels [...]..
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America’s Best Biking Cities and Crazy NATO Summit Conspiracies It’s been a dramatic weekend for your faithful weekend editor, but it looks like my internet’s back up and this new tablet thing is working. Which means: we’re back in business! At least, until the my WiFi starts acting funny again and kicks me off (which I’ve decided to blame on the Chicago NATO summit’s [...]..
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Food Waste Could Create Hydrogen Fuel The world of the 21st century faces some incredibly daunting challenges that, unless dealt with soon, may eventually reach the point of no return. Overpopulation, water shortages, and climate change is just some of the long list of problems facing the world. Researchers in the UK may have come up with a clever solution to [...]..
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Zero Motorcycles and Hollywood Electrics’ Sunset Strip Party Hollywood Electrics and Zero Motorcycles teamed up to celebrate the overwhelming success of the 2012 line Wednesday night at the chic Sunset Marquis Bar 1200. Zero Motorcycles sales for 2012 have far outpaced those of all previous years combined, and the company is still struggling to meet consumer demand for the fastest production motorcycles currently available, and tested by yours truly...
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API Releases Slanted Study Aimed At E15 As I get older, I find my tolerance for bullshit receding at a rapid rate. I try not to lose hope in humanity, but there are days when even I am shocked at the ignorant persistence and slanted viewpoints of certain entities. The American Petroleum Institute, which represents America’s major oil companies, is a consistent [...]..
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