Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, GM, Opel, Vauxhall Way back in 2004, GM’s European arm put a toe in the water of the rapidly expanding city-car market with its Opel Trixx concept. A few years later, GM’s Carl-Peter Forster indicated that the automaker would not be entering that microcar market after all. Fast forward another couple of [...] [...]
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Google, a company that runs power-hungry data centers, employs thousands of people, and operates a corporate jet, said on Wednesday that it was carbon neutral for the past two years. How so? Offsets. The idea of a carbon offset is to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions of a company … [...] Google reached its goal of becoming carbon neutral for 2007 and is almost entirely neutral for 2008, Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl announced on the official Google blog Wednesday evening. In June 2007, Google had announced it was going to try to become carbon neutral by the end of that year … [...] A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary. Ocean Carbon: Dent In Iron Fertilization Hypothesis Previously Proposed To Address Climate Change – Science DailyThe idea of seeding the ocean with iron to create plankton blooms and sequester CO2 takes a hit in this study which finds that not a … [...] This Nissan test mule demonstrates an electric powertrain. (Credit: Nissan) 2011: The year of the electric car [...] [...] Clamoring for a hybrid minivan? Can’t wait any longer? You might consider the Mazda5—the number one most fuel-efficient minivan on the market. A minivan one entire car class smaller than the stereotypical Dodge Caravan, the Mazda5 is almost unique [...] [...] Can the US auto industry end America’s foreign energy dependence? Chrysler isn’t paying back billion that the government lent to the automaker to stay out of bankruptcy. GM is losing billions by the week. Yet, the government is about to loan the auto industry up to billion to help the US auto industry retool [...] [...] Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Government/Legal, Green Currently, the United States isn’t producing enough biofuels to satisfy the requirements set out by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and President Obama’s administration is planning to do something about it. On Tuesday, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a new 6.5 million program to speed development [...] [...] |
 
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