Tag: Driving - Page 2
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Drivers Beware! Park in the Bike Lane in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Your Car May Get Crushed By a Tank
Screenshot from YouTube. Though bad driver behavior in Vilnius, Lithuania, hasn't quite reached Moscow-like levels yet, Mayor Arturas Zuokas had gotten sick and tired of cars parking illegally in the capital's bike lanes. While other city officials
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LA Uses Scare Tactics to Reduce Traffic, Discovers "Carmaheaven"
Los Angeles has finally found a way to cut down traffic: terror. The announcement that ten miles of Interstate 405 would be shut down for 53 hours was accompanied by a public three month long
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Extreme Road Rage in Moscow Sparks Backlash
Plenty of the world's cities are known for their congested roads and insane traffic jams -- Beijing, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Istanbul all come readily to mind. But in Moscow, elites are taking their desire to avoid traffic to deadly extremes.
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Global Car Ownership Per Capita Peaked in 2004 - Are We Breaking Our Auto Addiction?
With the ongoing news of rising gas prices in the US--even if they still are half that of Europe--and the shocking stat that the average American works two hours a day just to afford their car, here's a rather
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An Electric Buggy Will Be the First EV to Take on the World's Toughest Race
For the last two years, the petrol-powered ProDakar McRae Buggy 4x2, the work of an Anglo-Dutch team headed by rally car driver Alister McRae, has successfully finished on the Dakar Rally, perhaps the world's
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Top US Export to China: Bad Freeway Planning?
Drivers who were caught last year in a nine-day-plus traffic jam along the Beijing-Tibet Highway may be cheering China's ongoing efforts to rapidly and massively expand its freeway
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The Volvo Challenge: Or How We Attempted to Drive 850 miles on One Tank of Fuel
So this is where we ended up last week, dancing like crazy in our ski boots, on a blazingly sunny mountain top in the Tirolean mountains - Mark Ronson DJing in consummate style at
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The Volvo Snowbombing Challenge: Drive from the UK to Austria on One Tank of Petrol. Can We Do It?
At TreeHugger we totally dig examples of real world low carbon living solutions. While visiting the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm earlier this year, we saw how brands like Volvo, Siemens + Vattenfall are collaborating to
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Eco-Driving, Like Hypermiling, Saves Real Bucks
Fiat is a big proponent of eco-driving, claiming it could be a great and inexpensive way to reduce carbon emissions from transport. Riding a bike would be an even better way, but while we wait for more people to decide
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Can Parking Garages Be Architectural and Green?
Since cars and parking lots are not going to disappear, let's appreciate the good ones. In South Beach, Miami, they have parking garages that are architectural and green. They are low-rise, well-designed, hold lots of cars and they
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Why Are Germans Boycotting E10, the Ethanol Fuel?
Germans rate respect for having a national identity as eco-conscious people. Should it therefore come as a surprise that Germans are not embracing the advent of E10, a 10% ethanol-gasoline mixture, which has
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The Legend Returns, Electrified - VW Bus Concept in Geneva
If the duration of the useful life of a product contributes significantly to a reduced ecological footprint, then the VW Bus is the model of sustainability. If the hours of joy accumulated by the people that spent time in a vehicle is a
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One Tonne Life: Test Driving the Volvo C30 Electric Family Car (Interview)
Last month I was lucky enough to visit the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm to meet the Lindell family, who've embarked on a low carbon lifestyle experiment to radically reduce their carbon footprints from an average of
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To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH
Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, is already one of the country's most bike-friendly cities. Fewer than half of its residents use a car to get around, and
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Madrid's Mayor Fiddles Air Pollution Results
The Mayor of Madrid is very proud of the reductions in air pollution achieved during his term of office. "We have better air quality in Madrid than ever before", he boasted this year.
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Driving Hacks to Save the Planet (and Wallet)
In an ideal world, everyone would be able to ditch their cars, burn some extra calories, and
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European Cities Crack Down On Free Parking to Reduce Car Use, Make Room for Biking, Walking
What needs to be done to get more people out of their cars? Offer incentives for taking public transportation? Make driving more expensive? It's a
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Hydrogen Powered Car Driving the Future
A few month ago, I had the chance to test drive the new B-Class F-Cell hydrogen powered car from Mercedes Benz. The company was providing testing to showcase the design as well as to launch their new leasing program for the
