Tag: Detroit - Page 4
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Car Czar's Crown Swiped By Presidential Task Force
Looks like the Car Czar that Obama was planning to appoint to oversee the ailing auto industry is out—and a new Presidential Task Force led by the Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in. What? There's going to be no
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Time to Move to Detroit?
Detroit is on a lot of people's minds these days, what with the bailouts and the auto show. TreeHugger has looked at Detroit real estate before, questioning how such a valuable asset could be left to rot like this. Economist Ryan Avent
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Detroit Auto Show 2009: Chevy "Beat" Microcar Concept Turns into "Spark"
New Global Car for 2011 The Beat concept microcar (which is actually not that small when you see it in person - see the pics below) has been selected to become a global car called the Spark in 2011 (but available in Europe in 2010). GM says it will get
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Closer Than We Think: Rejuvenated Downtowns
Paleo-future
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Bailout of the Day: Automakers to get $17.4 Billion, Detroit Auto Show Still On
Detroit Gets Bailed Out Lame duck president George W. Bush has approved today a $17.4 billion bailout for the Detroit automakers, proving once again that in this bizarro-Keynesian world, if you run your big business well, you get nothing, and if you
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Survey: Is Detroit a Joke?
Matt's humorous post We're The Big Three. We Don't Need to Compete. drew a wide range of responses, for and against a bailout of GM.
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Chrysler To Ax Two Hybrid Models
Detroit appears to be on the road to receiving a bailout of its own, and this story is just another example of why the Big Three are in so much trouble in the first place. According to the New York Times, "HYBRID versions of the Chrysler Aspen and
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Detroit Bailout Loans On The Road To Approval, With Condition Attached - Car Makers Meet 35 MPG By 2020
Remember when the Wizard of Oz was spotted from behind his curtain, after which he admitted to being a 'very bad wizard' (audio link via NoPlaceLikeOz)? Obviously, industry lobbyists have not figured out that the climate is changing; and that the jobs
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Detroit Charity Turns Wasteland into Farms
From Motown to Growtown The growing international food crisis, coupled with spiralling energy costs, is without doubt causing much suffering. But there is a silver lining — as the unsustainability of business-as-usual becomes apparent, alternatives
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Container Condo To Be Built In Detroit
A 17-unit condominium built from shipping containers is being proposed for Detroit, on lots now vacant or containing burned-out homes. According to the Detroit Free Press, "The project would stack empty containers four high, cut in windows and doors,
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Chevy Malibu+ Lithium-Ion= Chevy Volt?
The Chevy Volt, expected to debut in 2010, will quite possibly be the first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) from any of the major automakers (of course, Toyota might have something to say about that). Regardless of when the Volt actually
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Unsold Homes Tie People Down; Michael Chertoff's Insult
Unsold Homes Tie Down Would-Be Transplants: Dr. Michele Morgan migrated last fall from Detroit to Phoenix, taking a job as a psychiatrist. She expected her husband, Sam Kirkland, to soon join her, since he was accepting an early retirement package from
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Chicago Police Considering a Switch to the Chevy Tahoe
Rising gas prices and carbon emissions are fueling a move towards more efficient vehicles, particularly for municipalities, agencies and other entities with large fleets. For instance, we've seen the Hampshire Police in the UK switch to the Lexus GS
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Diesel-Hybrid Pickup Coming to U.S.
Indian carmaker Tata recently made a splash with its Nano, 'the world's most affordable car.' Then, yesterday, we reported that Tara, another Indian auto manufacturer, is coming out with the Tiny, a car even less expensive than the Nano, and it's an
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Urban Revitalization: Small Steps Yield Big Results
We talk so often on TreeHugger about the importance of cities, about the need to revitalize and re-inhabit our downtowns, and what valuable assets the infrastructures of Detroit and other rust belt cities are. Therefore we can't help but be excited by
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GM Urges Dealers to Oppose California Waiver
General Motors, already unhappy about the new CAFE standards, is even less happy about the fact that California wants to impose even more stringent standards. And while the EPA has denied the waiver it needs to do so, California is challenging that
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Sorry Detroit, Heavy Cars Are Not Safer
A while back we covered the Competitive Enterprise Institute's claim that the new CAFE standards will cost lives due to lighter and, in their opinion, more unsafe cars. That led to some animated discussion--as well as some confusion--as to whether or
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Ohio to Chevy Tahoe Hybrid Drivers: Get Out of the Carpool Lane!
Over the last few years hybrid vehicles have become, for many within the environmental community as well as the greater public, a kind of panacea for problems ranging from climate change, to dependence on foreign oil, to air pollution. Of course, as
