Tag: Fuel Efficiency - Page 6
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The Perverse Hybrid Incentive
The hybrid car has become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners.
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Maximizing Your Vehicle's Efficiency
The average car, Good writes, uses just 15 percent of the energy it produces from gasoline. Making cars more efficient, then, is an obvious way to reduce fuel consumption as we wait for electric vehicles to become ubiquitous.Good
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Danish Cargo Ship Fleet Cuts Fuel Use 30% By Going Half Speed
Until two years ago, the Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk had been sending its cargo ships across the seas at full throttle, vying to get supplies to their destination as fast as
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Artist De-Pimps Hummer Into a Horse-Drawn Carriage (Updated)
Artist Jeremy Dean with his H2 Hummer that he's turning into a carriage. Update: After weeks of chopping, welding, and deconstructing, artist Jeremy Dean has finally unveiled the Hummer he's converted into a horse-drawn carriage. The end result may seem
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Green Police Nab Super Bowl Ad for Audi
Cheap Trick? Yes, lead singer Robin Zander has re-recorded the band's '80s hit "Dream Police" for Audi's Super Bowl "Green Police" ad tomorrow. The spot opens with an arrest
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How Greenfleeting Uses the Power of Scale (Video)
All glory may be fleeting, but most of us wouldn't count fleeting as very glorious. But greenfleeting, the art of maximizing the efficiency of a fleet of vehicles, can pick up some big ecological gains if done right. Greenfleeting can mean choosing
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Is The Chevy Volt Right For You?
The new Chevy Volt is perhaps the most eagerly
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Automotive X-PRIZE Competition Announcement at Detroit Auto Show
The Automotive X Prize, a $10 million competition for super fuel-efficient vehicles, announced at the North American Auto Show in Detroit this week that its
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Is it Time to Drive 55?
In 1901, Good writes, the state of Connecticut enacted the country's first speed limit regulation: 12 miles per hour on the highway. The motivation, no doubt, was a concern for safety. Today, however, speed limits are as much about
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Break Me in Two, Pleads Point 65's Tequila! Kayak (Video)
Roof racks decrease a car's fuel efficiency by anything from 5%, through 10% or more. And that's empty racks. Stick our favourite sports toy up on your cars roof and watch you fuel economy plummet by up to 27%, according to Ecomodder.
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Consider the Wheel Reinvented
Imagine a tire which can change its shape to that best suited for the conditions of the road. The green benefits are numerous, from reducing travel times to increasing fuel efficiency. Farmers
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A Jewish Response to the Energy Challenge?
Jewish leaders met at the beginning of this month in San Francisco for the first conference dedicated to
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The Best of Fast Company: BP's Bid to Move Beyond Petroleum, Growing Algae in Abandoned Mines, and a Green Makeover for the Humvee
This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next-generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.
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The Best of Fast Company: China Dominates Texas Wind Power, Plastic Made Out of Algae, and the Future of Trucking
This week at Fast Company, we looked at China's entry into the Texas wind power industry, Cereplast's plastic made out of algae, the long-term future of trucking, and a proposal to build floating cities in the Netherlands.
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World's Airlines Pledge to Cut Emissions 50% by 2050
Aviation accounts for only 3% of carbon emissions from the global transport sector, but it's a number that's growing. Not to mention that those emissions often have a higher warming potential than ones emitted elsewhere.
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Nippon Airlines Asks You to Please "Lighten Your Load" Pre-Board
We're not sure how to say this, politely, erm, before you board, can you please remove your shoes, empty your water bottles, and well, your bladders too. Whew, that wasn't so bad. Now, if you fly Japan's Nippon
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Biodiesel Motorcycle Attempts Circumnavigation of Australia
With more than a touch of irony, a motorcyclist who spent about 20 years as an off-shore oil driller is demonstrating that there are alternatives to fossil fuels. Paul Carter, now a best seller author, last month leapt aboard a motorbike (designed and
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The Green Future of Mercedes-Benz: The New Electric Smart Fortwo
(Image: Jacob Gordon) Fully-electric Smart cars have been zipping around roads in various forms for some time. But now, Daimler AG, Smart's German daddy company, is ramping up to roll out the second-generation of its battery-powered Smart fortwo--this
