Last year in November 2005, VeraSun announced a partnership with Ford to increase VE85 fuelling locations and raise awareness about the benefits of E85 use. Now, turning that plan into reality, the alliance has opened up a 'Midwest Ethanol Corridor'...
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After getting many interested last year, with its plan to build 250,000 hybrids a year by 2010, Ford Motor Co. chairman and CEO Bill Ford dropped a bombshell yesterday - sent an email to all Ford employees detailing not hybrid but flex-fuels cars...
The recent Brazil Classics Fiat Show witnessed the unveiling of an all Electric Fiat Palio. The prototype vehicle was developed by a group of the best from the automotive world -- Fiat Automoveis, Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Itaipu Hidreletrica and...
With a ghastly pollution level in India, the automakers are rightly concerned. As an option to gasoline, Diesel cars have been doing really well in the country. Now big auto giants, GM and Hindustan Motors is making plans to introduce CNG as a fuel...
Japan is serious about fighting global warming and gas prices, the Environment Ministry has chalked out a policy, making it mandatory for all new cars to run on flex-fuel -- a blend of 10 percent ethanol, and 90 percent gasoline, starting in 2010....
Now, non-Swedish will get our first opportunity to see Saab 9-3 Convertible BioPower Hybrid Concept in reality i.e. if you are living in London and would be attending the London Auto Show next month.
So, those lucky British will be the second...
Following what is being done in Santa Monica, Quantum Fuel Systems will lease out a group of four modified Priuses to the Californian government. These hydrogen-powered hybrids will be handed over to California later this year.
The move is a part of...
To revive falling sales of its SUV, Ford will be launching a diesel or hybrid versions of the Expedition. Depending on what consumers prefer as recorded on the online test, the new Expedition could be powered by either a new European V-8 diesel engine...
Already green, United Parcel Service is going greener. UPS already has a fleet of green trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cell, liquefied natural gas, compressed natural gas, electric and propane. However, the company is not satisfied, it has already...
Meaning to play an active role for a sustainable world, the recently formed Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership aims to make Scandinavia a region where hydrogen is commercially available and used in a network of refueling stations.
The network is...
Though Toyota had previously shelved plans to produce plug-in hybrids, yet with the increasing popularity of such models, it now revises its decision. While many companies have bragged on achieving increasing mileage with their plug-ins, Toyota knows...
In order to repair its image, that was badly bruised by its ill-feeling towards hybrid cars, GM is now considering to a new 'plug-in hybrids' with a greater mileage than the current ones.
Plug-ins, unlike regular hybrids, to achieve maximum output...
Do you want to get the best from your hybrid? Why don't you try Electrocharger. Created by Sigma Automotive, it boasts of being the first retro-fittable hybrid system produced.
The system can replace the alternator in your car due to which you will...
Making a recommendable contribution to environment protection, Mazda donated five new Tribute hybrids to the Los Angeles Fire Department on May 27th 2006. These vehicles meets the strictest emission regulations a gasoline-fueled vehicle can meet --...
This is to keep you informed on the H-racer, world's smallest hydrogen car. I presented on the car's features earlier and I presume you must have been equally impressed.
I suggest it is a good gift you can give you child. Through it, you could teach...
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