Tag: Driving - Page 5
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Create Your Own Custom Solar Car and Win $1,000 USD from Kia
Don't we wish it were that easy: Just go online, pick all the green attributes you want, and then pick up you own custom solar car the next week or month at a dealership. You could add solar panels, make it a plug-in,
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Bus Powered by French-fry Fat Reaches Asia
Andy Pag, an environmental activist, has been travelling around the world in a bus powered by french-fry fat. He left London on September 19, 2009 and has covered 3,000 miles so far.
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Car Driver's Entitlement of the Road is Challenged
This short video has been making its way around the internet. If you haven't seen it, check it out and see what grandma does when the driver aggressively revs his engine while she is crossing in front if him. While the grandma's bulls eye is a rare
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World's First Drive-Through Museum Coming to China
Visitors drive their cars
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College of the Atlantic Offsets Campus Emissions Via Truck Stops?
Not satisfied with being the first carbon-neutral college in the US, College of the Atlantic is taking it to the streets, literally. Their latest plan to achieve carbon-neutrality, installing electrification
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Amazing! Bike Faster than Helicopters, Running Faster than Car in Sao Paulo
Do you want more proof that encouraging car use in a city is only going to lead you to traffic hell? Take a look at Sao Paulo: the city of ridiculous car jams, where there are more privately held
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Now We Can Play Street Ball All Night Long, Thanks to Luna Eyes
Coming to a city and street near you are new, easy-to-install solar powered streetlamps. The new street lights by Luna Eye are lightweight and compact so they ship easily, plus you can put them on an existing pole. Install them
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ChargePoints: A Global EV Charging Network
There's no doubt that a standardized, well distributed network of charging points would be a huge boon for the electric vehicle industry. From their plan to get electric vehicle charging stations in 28 states, to
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120 Horsepower Sports Car That Runs on Garbage?
On a recent flight on Ethiopian Airlines, I opened up the inflight magazine Selamta to find an article on alternative vehicles that caught my attention. While the car just seats one, and at this time is still a concept-car, this
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We Have Enough Cars RIght Now Thank You Very Much
Even with big incentives to buy brand new autos, the automotive industry is far from recovering from their largest drop in sales in history. Automobiles, which have seen a steady increase in sales since their invention, are being trialed
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Beijing Adds More Than 1,200 Cars to Its Roads Daily in First Half of 2009
Between January and July of 2009, Beijing streets were graced with an 1,231 additional cars per day on average, according to the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau (via: Economic Times). All those new cars add up to an
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Eco-Rally to Transverse America
Photo from Eco-Rally USA Eco-Rally USA, a grassroots transportation group, is launching a trip across the United States aimed at helping to accelerate clean energy vehicles to become the standard for automobiles rather than the exception. The tour start
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John Fekner's Top 20 Cash for Clunkers
Spotted over at Wooster Collective, John Fekner's ephemeral tribute to the American clunker appears just in time, before "Cash For Clunkers" clears the streets of decaying rustbuckets.
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part Two)
Zipcar has been a game changer, but Robin Chase is already on to other things. The next frontier in transportation is a smart network that has your car, iPhone, GPS, and other gizmos sharing chatter with streetlights, power utilities, your insurance
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Robin Chase on the Birth of Zipcar and the Future of Transportation (Part One)
To Robin Chase, parked cars and solo drivers just look like a great big mess of wasted capacity. It’s this kind of thinking that inspired her to start Zipcar (now the world’s largest carsharing company), and GoLoco, the Facebook of ridesharing. It’s
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13 Hot Eco-Cars That Go Zoom
Who says a green car has to be shaped like a sneaker to save the planet? These 13 hot supercars sure don't.
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Isn't GM already Green?
With the auto giant General Motors filing for bankruptcy today, they are now promising to change into a lean, green automobile-making machine. But if you look at the facts, they already are green. Is GM the poster child for
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"Bikers are a Pimple on the Butt" - AUTO Lobbyist (Video)
Automobile Users Trade Organization (AUTO) Lobbyist Lashes Out The folks at StreetFilms work hard for sustainable transportation choices. Whether they are grading New Yorkers' bike locking abilities or looking at Bus Rapid Transit Systems in LA, they
