Archive for January, 2007
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Nissan today announced their pricing for the new 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid, which is the company’s first hybrid car.
Nissan priced the Altima Hybrid $1,800 less than the comparable Toyota Camry Hybrid, and according to this blog entry from Wired Autopia, the payback period for the hybrid over the regular Altima is between 3.5 and 4 [...]
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Report: Renewable Energy could deliver 50% of the world’s energy needs by 2050
Monday, January 29th, 2007A report just out by the European Renewable Energy Council and Greenpeace International provides a global energy strategy that would cut CO2 emissions by almost 50% over the next 43 years. This strategy outlines ways to achieve renewable energy supplies delivering 70% of the global electricity supply and 65% of the global [...]
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Hybrid Coalition
Saturday, January 27th, 2007According to World Magazine, former CIA director R. James Woosley owns a Toyota Prius with a bumper sticker on the back that reads, “Bin Laden hates this car.” The article talks about the Set America Free Coalition, a group that consists of “tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, cheap hawks, and evangelicals…and Willie Nelson.” [...]
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GM Launches a Lower-Cost Hybrid
Saturday, January 27th, 2007King5.com in Arizona test drove the new GM Saturn Vue that uses a “light hybrid system.” The Vue is part of the new GM Greenline. While not as advanced and as fuel-efficient as full-blown hybrids, the light hybrid system has a price premium of just under $2,000, while other hybrids command [...]
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Time Magazine - A Tour of the Energy Future
Friday, January 26th, 2007Time Magazine has a really neat article online that lists some of the more cutting edge projects going on in the field of alternative energy. It seems that MIT has taken a bunch of its smartest scientists and created an Energy Research Council to “declare war on the energy crisis.” [...]
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Probable Rejection of W. Maine Wind-Power Project
Thursday, January 25th, 2007The Associated Press is reporting today that Maine State land use regulators voted 6-1 to order its staff to submit a document calling for the denial of the Redington Township wind power project. The 30 planned turbines would have generated about 90 megawatts of wind power - enough for about 40,000 homes. [...]
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EEStor Passes Two Key Production Milestones
Thursday, January 18th, 2007EEStor, the Texas based company that is developing an “ultracapacitor”, or a ceramic battery to store electricity, announced today that it had hit two key production milestones. In today’s press release, EEStor said that it’s automated production line had been “proven to meet the requirements for precise chemical delivery, purity control, parameter [...]
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Mazda Developing a Rotary Hydrogen/Gasoline/Electric Hybrid
Monday, January 15th, 2007Mazda is in the process of developing a new rotary engine that can run on either hydrogen or gasoline and is also linked to an electric motor for front-wheel drive. Mazda is claiming that rotary engines (for which they ware will known) are suited to hydrogen because in normal engines, hydrogen can cause [...]
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Volvo Unveils Heavy-Duty Diesel-Electric Hybrid
Monday, January 15th, 2007The Trucker.com is reporing that Volvo unveiled a new Diesel-Electric Hybrid technology that’s designed for heavy duty applications such as refuse hauling with lots and stop and go’s to regional tractor-trailer hauling.
Volvo is looking to rollout the Class 8 truck in 2009 - they currently are developing and building six test trucks for use in [...]
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Walmart Helping to Develop Hybrid Truck
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Walmart has started working with a company named ArvinMeritor to develop a new diesel-electric hybrid truck. In a news release this week, both companies said that they had agreed to develop a “dual-mode, diesel-electric drivetrain for a class 8 truck.” The Class 8 truck is considered the “workhorse of [...]
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