29
Apr
Photo: American Honda Motor Company If you want to buy a Honda Civic powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), you need to live in California, New York, Utah or Oklahoma.
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29
Apr
Photo: American Honda Motor Company If you want to buy a Honda Civic powered by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), you need to live in California, New York, Utah or Oklahoma. If you’re going to relocate just to buy a Civic GX, Oklahoma may have just made your “which state to choose” decision a little easier. A state tax credit of up to $7,500 is offered to anyone who buys a CNG vehicle, and Oklahoma is seriously ramping up CNG fueling stations over the next several years.
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2010 Honda Civic GX: CNG Powered Civic In Limited U.S. Distribution
26
Apr
The folks over at Kelley Blue Book have announced their top ten green cars for 2010. Not content to compile a list of the 10 most fuel efficient vehicles, KBB examined things such as CO2 emissions, safety, comfort and the “fun to own” factor.
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Kelley Blue Book: 2009’s Greenest Cars
19
Apr
DESPITE a growing number of partnerships between various Australian states and cities with manufacturers and service providers, the Federal Government has ruled out offering incentives to buyers of hybrids and electric vehicles. Government subsidies and rebates for green cars are swiftly becoming common practice in many overseas markets - particularly in Europe and Asia
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Federal Government Not Planning To Back Electric Vehicles In Australia
10
Oct
Japan’s top two manufacturers, Honda and Toyota, unveiled new green cars at the Toyota auto show. The vehicles focus on low emission technologies. Take a look: Posted in Green Permalink | Recent Headlines | RSS Feeds
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3
Sep
The Leaf is an electric car from Nissan that is expected to be available beginning in 2010. Here are some details about the Leaf
20
Feb
India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions Air Cars are scheduled to hit Indian streets in August of 2008.
Barring any last-minute design changes on the way to production, the Air Car should be surprisingly practical. The $12,700 CityCAT, one of a handful of planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor units; MDI says it should cost around $2 to fill the car’s carbon-fiber tanks with 340 liters of air at 4350 psi. Drivers also will be able to plug into the electrical grid and use the car’s built-in compressor to refill the tanks in about 4 hours.
Of course, the Air Car will likely never hit American shores, especially considering its all-glue construction. But that doesn’t mean the major automakers can write it off as a bizarre Indian experiment — MDI has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa.
18
Feb
Take two promising technologies - alternative energy and carbon capture - add a dash of ingenuity, and you may have the ideal recipe for a zero emission car. Or so a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology hope: they’ve developed a technology to store and eventually recycle the carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.
They envision a system that could trap the carbon emissions - which would be collected and processed at a fueling station - and reuse them to power vehicles, thus forming a sustainable closed-loop system. The scientists are currently working on a fuel processing device to separate the carbon dioxide from the hydrogen and store it in liquid form; the hydrogen would be used as a fuel source.
Source: Tree Hugger
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