Tag: Fuel Efficiency - Page 12
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185 Hybrid Electric Coke Delivery Trucks to Hit the Road in 2009
In the grand tradition of corporations making tiny green steps in the right direction, Coca Cola has announced it will be deploying 185 hybrid electric delivery trucks in 2009. While it's certainly a far more substantial move than
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Biomimicry: Shark-Inspired "Skin" for Cars Claims to Improve MPG
Turning Your Car Into a Golf Ball We're always careful with companies that claim to have products that greatly improve your MPG. Most of them don't work (magazines like Consumer Reports have tested a lot of them), and we often think "If it was that
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5 High Speed Trains that are Changing the Face of Rail
Image Credit: Good Clean Tech Record Smashing Speed and Efficiency Will Challenge Airlines Trains and TreeHugger are a natural fit. But as Eric pointed out in his recent exploration of high-speed, low emission trains over at Planet Green, recent
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Boost Your Vehicles Efficiency for Free with Garmin ecoRoute: Coming this February!
GPS units offer improved efficiency with your vehicle by offering you a one shot route to your destination. In other words, there is no more of the "hunt and peck" method of finding the nearest gas station, or the
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2008 U.S. Gas Price Year in Review
Gas prices have always been an up and down proposition. This year has been as especially rocky year, with prices reaching the highest in history, then plummeting to a 5-year low within only a matter of months. Graphs and
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Toyota to Launch 10 New Hybrids by Early 2010s, Battery-Electric Vehicle Confirmed for 2012
Seems shrinking gas prices haven't deterred Toyota's need for hybrid developin' speed. Starting with the third generation Prius and the new Lexus hybrid, the HS250h, which are being
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Is Toyota Hot on the Trail of a Solar Powered Car?
Toyota, who is famous for its groundbreaking introduction of the Prius, is currently rumored to be hot on the trail of another first... a solar powered car. This headline was splattered all over the Web last Thursday. The vehicle
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Ford Parking Assist Technology Makes Lincoln MKT Crossover (Slightly) More Efficient
Well folks, another basic function of life has now been taken away from us, as if we were stumps on a log not able to think and function for ourselves. But perhaps Ford is right. Maybe the public has forgotten the art of
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Bargain Prices on Small Cars as Oil Gets Cheap
Image Credit: Nissan Small Cars Selling for Under $10,000 The New York Times has already noted that without a gas tax to keep prices high, small, efficient cars may never take off in the States. And now ABC tells us that this hypothesis may well be
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See Innowattech Collect Energy From the Road, In Action
Green sites have been commenting on the "energy parasite": Innowattech, including our own Lloyd. The Israeli company has developed a system using energy harvesting piezoelectric crystals to sequester the mechanical energy generated on highways, the
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Car Talk Calls for a Higher Gas Tax
Image credit: Car Talk Holiday Card NPR's Motoring Gurus Get Political I'd love to see greener cars, but I must admit I am no great petrolhead, and rarely follow the motoring media. But I consider NPR’s Car Talk an exception to that rule – not only does
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Gas Cubby A Great Last Minute Green Gift
Gas Cubby is a super cool iPhone app that helps users monitor their driving habits and get a little greener.
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Toyota Announces First Operating Loss in 70 Years: $1.7 billion USD
As Mike wrote a while back, even the Prius can't save Toyota. On Monday the world's biggest car-maker announced that, in contrast to 2007's 2.3 trillion yen operating profit, for the past year the company made an operating loss of 150
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Rubber Tracks Make Military Vehicles More Efficient, Durable, and Quieter
Looks More Like a Toy, but Performs Better Recently, we wrote about the fuel consumption of some common US military vehicles (f.ex., the M2A3 and M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles get about 1.7 MPG and the M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank gets about 0.6 MPG). This
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Community Questions: Dave Schembri, President of Smart Car
A new feature we're doing on TreeHugger is having our community participate in some of the interviews we do here by asking folks to pose some of their own questions. We think it is important that your voice gets in front of many
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GM, Ford Can Meet US's Strongest Emissions Standards by 2012, Based on New Fuel Economy Proposals
According to a new piece of analysis by NRDC of fuel economy plans submitted to Congress by General Motors and Ford will be able to meet the most stringent emissions standards in the nation. Chrysler did not provide fuel economy
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End of the Line for American Auto Makers? Paul Krugman Thinks So
On Sunday, a few days before collecting his 10 million kronor (US$1.4 million) Nobel Memorial Prize in economics (on international trade patterns), Professor Paul Krugman told reporters he felt the American auto industry will likely disappear.
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The Gas Price Limbo: How Low Can it Go?
What a ride it has been folks... The price of gas in the U.S. was teetering on the $4 mark just a short few months ago, and here some states stand today with $1.90... $1.70... $1.60... dare we say soon to be $1.50. We are
