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GM Says Challenge X Is The Future, We Say We Want It Now

Looking at the array of biodiesel hybrids, ethanol hydrogen hybrids and fuel cells on display in Central Park this morning, the impression we got was GM is looking to these technologies as the future. All we could think was how much they should be the present. You see, this wasn't a display of pie-in-the-sky concepts or prototypes, but actual vehicles capable of competently carrying humans and all of them designed and built by students on a limited budget. If a couple of pubescent geeks still waiting for their first pocket protectors can put a functioning biodiesel hybrid on a driveway, why isn't GM doing so right now?

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3:00 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Wes Siler
1,170 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: Actually I believe that the major problem isn't that GM isn't technically capable of putting something like this on the road. It's that GM's cost premium for doing so is so high that they'd rather not sell anything than more »

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Biofuel Comparison Chart Highlights Hypocrisy

The problem with the green movement isn't its goal of conservation — that's admirable — it's the gullibility many of its proponents suffer from and which big companies and governments are able to exploit to sell them on far-from-friendly products and policies. Take biofuel for instance. Many of its sources use more energy and effort than they're capable of producing, yet they receive subsidies and publicity over sources that might actually prove sustainable. This chart, put together by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer neatly sums this up. We only spot one glaring omission, poop.

[Seattle PI via Treehugger]
Photogrpahy credit: Daniel Leininger

11:00 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Wes Siler
3,053 views, 65 comments

Latest by n/a: We still have a hard time letting go of the internal combustion engine. I would welcome a time when these engines are used only as racing engines and regular street drivers are electrics or compressed air motors. I am more »

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Saab 9-X Is A Hybrid Of Concept And Reality

The Saab 9-X BioHybrid Concept is allegedly more than just another far-fetched yet stylish show car. Actually, this vehicle is supposed to hint strongly at an upcoming 9-1. For now, GM claims the car is powered by a 200HP 1.4-liter turbo four-banger, with magical Swedish hippie hybrid trickery. GM also feels the need to tell us that the engine can run on E85— as if that's even newsworthy anymore. No word on where the ignition key will go. But you know how Saab loyalists are about that extra-special quirk. Press release after the jump.

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1:30 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Mark Arnold
1,568 views, 15 comments

Latest by dfwguy: @Bento: What is so intriguing about a "Start" button. Mama's '59 Rambler had a start button AND push button shift. more »

can gasoline be a biofuel?

Genetically Modified Bacteria to make "Renewable Petroleum"

A biotech company based in California announced Monday that they have genetically engineered common bacteria to produce hydrocarbon chains. LS9 claims they can produce hundreds of different kids of hydrocarbon molecules this way, including crude oil free from the sulphur particles that contaminate ground oil. This could, in turn, be refined into gasoline, jet fuel, diesel or lubricants. More »

6:30 PM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Wes Siler
1,801 views, 21 comments

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Sometimes A Guv's Gotta Do What A Guv's Gotta Do: Michigan Guv Granholm Creates Incentive Program For 1,000 BioFuel Pumps By 2008


Michigan's Governor Granholm knows that just because the Commander-in-Chief doesn't have the time to meet with the leaders of the Big Three, it don't mean she can't help to solve one of their problems all by her lonesome. The Guv's gone and found a way to get some more of those darn-hard-to-find E85 pumps into Michigan: More »

4:30 PM on Tue Aug 29 2006
By Ray Wert
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