Toyota has announced that it will be introducing a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Camry Hybrid concept car at the Los Angeles International Auto show this November.
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JD Power and Associates got its start many years ago by talking to consumers about automobile quality, but the company has branched out considerably since then. Its latest study, issued yesterday by the Web Intelligence Division, looks at the blogosphere to determine how car brands are perceived for their environmental sustainability. The Environmental Protection Agency has released a report which sites an overall improvement in new car fuel efficiency from 20.6 miles per gallon in 2007 to a projected 20.8 miles per gallon for 2008 – a jump of .2 miles per gallon. A small step in the right direction. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Promethean Power Systems, a start-up developing solar-powered refrigerators for India, has raised a round of angel funding from the Quercus Trust. The funding, finalized Thursday, will allow the company to build another prototype which it hopes to test in India next year, according to company CEO Sorin Gramma. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–It’s fashionable these days to ponder whether there’s an investment bubble in clean tech. But I believe this discussion obscures a bigger problem for the clean-tech crowd: not enough money. A panel of venture capitalists at the Technology Review EmTech 2008 conference on Thursday took the bubble question head on. The response from investors tends [...] [...] Here’s a sampling of green-tech news with a quick commentary: Carbon is building up in atmosphere faster than predicted – Washingtonpost.comData shows that emissions growth is at the high end of IPCC scenarios. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Tesla Motors has received many accolades for producing an all-electric luxury sports car. But its long-term plans may hold its most challenging task: making a mass-market electric car. The company intends to make a “family car” that it hopes will lead to the sale of millions of all-electric … CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–The route to a less polluting car looks more like a multipoint intersection than a single superhighway, a panel of experts said on Wednesday. The auto and fuels industries are in the midst of dramatic technological change, but it’s still not clear how quickly which new technologies will be adopted. Also unknown is whether consumers are [...] [...] |
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