Archive for August 31st, 2008

Filed under: India, Tata
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With work halted at the factory that is to build the Tata Nano, the future of the world’s cheapest car is uncertain. Well, we’re still pretty certain that it will be built somewhere, but the details are much more hazy now that people in the West Bengal region have… »

Filed under: Hybrid, Transportation Alternatives, Legislation and Policy, USA

Following the examples set down by New York and San Francisco, Boston is now requiring that all its taxis be hybrids by the year 2015. The fleet currently boasts about 50 of the gas saving cars but most of the rest of the fleet of 1825 people… »

Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and Policy
Not to be outdone by those Coors ethanol vehicles at the DNC, Republicans will get their own ethanol-dose during their national convention this week. On Tuesday night in the Twin Cities, the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council will host a “celebration” called AgNite (because you know that farmers are the first to… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors, European Union
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OK, so if you were wondering what could be gained by schlepping a batch of Tesla Roadsters across the pond, I have your answer: convincing European automotive journalists that EVs are wicked cool.
Take, for example, the feelings of Guido Reinking, the… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Transportation Alternatives, UK
Residents of Radnor Park in Clydebank, Scotland have a new transportation alternative in the form of three new cars to share amongst themselves. And although the car-sharing arrangement does require them to pay a fee of £5 for a day’s worth of car time, they won’t need to worry… »

Once again it’s time for the latest 24 Hours Of LeMons Ãœber Gallery, in which every car that managed to get out on the racetrack gets its own set of photos. The 24 Hours Of LeMons New England had an excellent assortment of cars, plenty of black-flag drama, and broken parts all over the track,… »

Filed under: Etc., Green Daily, USA
Photo by phogel. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.
While increased gas prices didn’t stop holiday weekend travel in the recent past, this year might be different. The double whammy of higher-than-last-year’s gas prices and Hurricane Gustav in the Gulf of Mexico means that around 1.1 percent fewer people in the… »