Archive for January 1st, 2009

Remember reports Toyota was working on a solar-powered Prius? Maybe they weren’t entirely wrong. According to The Nikkei, Toyota’s secretly developing a vehicle powered solely by solar energy, some on the car and others not-so-much.
According to Japanese newspaper The Nikkei, Toyota is working on an electric vehicle that will get some of its power from… »

Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, At Witz End
“I hope GM goes bankrupt,” said the young California man in the Japanese restaurant. Really? Why? “Because I hate the UAW,” he responded, ignorantly equating America’s largest automaker to its most powerful union.
I guess, like so many Americans, he was unaware, or didn’t care, that hundreds… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily

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The years may roll on by, but some things stay the same. A perfect example is an article from the February 1967 issue of Popular Mechanics that reader Jay sent in. As you can read in the scan of the article above, BMW – that stands… »

An unmolested 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante, one of only 17 built, was discovered in a garage in the UK after gathering dust for almost 50 years. The estimated value? At least $4.35 million!
An unmolested 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante was discovered after spending 48 years in a quiet, Tyneside, Britain garage. It’s being termed… »

According to The Smoking Gun, Charles Barkley “was gonna drive around the corner and get a blow job” when he was arrested for a Monday night DUI. [E! Online, The Smoking Gun via Deadspin]

Original post by Ray Wert… »

Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Green Daily

click for more images of the 2009 Toyota Prius
As the first batch of Priuses sold in the United States reach their get ready to turn eight in 2009, the battery replacement issue is going to pop up more and more. We noted back in September that Toyota had dropped the… »

Filed under: Legislation and Policy, On Two Wheels, Green Daily, UK
After a three-year study by Transport for London was completed and showed that opening London’s bus lanes to motorcyclists would improve safety for the two-wheelers without having any effect on the safety of anyone else, Mayor Boris Johnson announced that he’d allow motorcycles access to… »

Filed under: Etc., Green Daily

Every year, Lake Superior State University issues a new “List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.” Sounds like fun! What have we got here? Uh oh… environmental buzzwords are out. In fact, “green” and “going green” were the most nominated words to… »