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more about #biofuel more comments → beercheck: [jalopnik.com] #alternativeenrgy more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Wish the limo was based on a Checker airport taxi, but this is more open minded and diverse than I would have expected. None are particularly practic... more » Tanshanomi: Sorry, but not including Electro-Automotive's E-Sports Racer = epic fail. It was a custom, 100 MPH electric racecar...a decade and a half ago. #alter... more » Skunky: I like the Duramax idea. I wonder exactly how hard a swap that is. Would like to do that to a Camino or maybe even a Nomad. #alternativeenrgy more » Elhigh: Bolting a roofrack to an S-10 and covering it with a solar array is stupid-smart. It's stupid nobody's much done it yet, and smart - it verges on a h... more » MarywithanM™: Let's see if I got this. Veggie Van Productions, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, made a film, Fuel. And their promotion for the film includes a caravan acr... more » zeeboid: I am giong to be super cynical about this... and say: I wonder if the algae fuel eats away at internel engine components and seals like the Ethonal d... more » scroggzilla raids again: mmmnnn....hippie cars more » mercury_marine: Algeus? That's the best they could come up with? That car should obviously be named the Plecostomus. [en.wikipedia.org] more » GIC asks not for whom the bell tolls: Real hippies know: Algae isn't a viable mainstream alternafuel until Willie Nelson can fill-up his bus for free at the city aquarium. more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: All the algae necessary grows on roofs, the ground, and even south and west-facing pavement in the Pac NW. Problem solved. Oh, and the algae-based d... more » MushyHeirloom: Now make it 10%. Hey, as long as I don't get stuck behind it and they bring it back to their coast, it sounds like a good idea to me. Algae is about ... more » skaycog was here: Possibly one day Jalop can have the QOTD: What Is The Worst Algae Super Car? more » TimTim: Sapphire Energy seems like they've really got something there. Not specifically this worked over Prius, it is nice but it's mostly a promotion to foc... more » engineerd: Dude, did you know there was a man in the '50s that designed an engine that would go 150 miles on a gallon of gas? The oil companies bought his paten... more » -
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The Five Best Custom Green Cars
The greenies over at design blog Inhabitat have picked out their their favorite "pimped-out" eco rides. Among them a VW Bug, Chevy S-10, a '65 Impala supersport and a stretched Hummer H1 limo. How unexpected. More »
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Algae-Powered Hippie Car Attempts Cross-Country Trek On 25 Gallons Of Biofuel
Algae-based biofuel is a relative unknown with actual potential for future use, as we've said in the past, and biofuel producer Sapphire Energy has unveiled a modified Prius they'll run coast-to-coast on 25 gallons of Algae fuel... sorta. More » -
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Buses in Oslo to Get Poop Power
Next time you hop on a bus in Oslo, it might not run on regular gas. Instead, it may be running on methane fermented from human waste. Awesome? [Gizmodo] -
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Lotus Completes Omnivore Engine, Feeds It Alcohol
Talk fuel efficiency and words like "direct injection," "flex-fuel" and "variable compression ratio" are common. But they aren't usually combined with "two-stroke." Unless you're Lotus that is. More » -
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Bio-Bentley: Fastest Bentley Ever Teased With New Video
The biofuel-powered Bentley we mentioned earlier this week is purportedly Bentley's fastest. Now we've got some teaser video with angry bio-pumping twin-turbo W12 action. More » -
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Fastest Bentley Ever Will Run On Biofuel
Bentley will be using the 2009 Geneva Motor Show to debut a biofuel powered racer promised to be the fastest and most powerful production Bentley ever.
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KNIGHT XV: World's Biggest Fully-Armored Bio-Fuel-Powered SUV Gets Early Unveil Thanks To Battery Problem
At 7’4” tall, 18’1” long and 8’2” wide, the KNIGHT XV is one big honkin’ bio-fuel powered SUV. Did we mention it was armored too? Thanks to a 6.8 liter V10 that runs on something nebulously called “Biofuel” it claims to be green, but we estimate its mileage to be in the low single digits. That’s a lot of liquid corn. Unfortunately, Conquest Vehicles’ bouncers appear to be equally big, burly and prone to man-handling our Editor-in-chief, so we decided to reveal it early. Ray’s full account follows the jump. More » -
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Escape From Berkeley, By Any Non-Petroleum Means Necessary!
This morning, I headed over to Shipyard Labs in the Berkeley flatlands (not very coincidentally, located just a few blocks from the 24 Hours Of LeMons HQ in Emeryville) to witness preparations for the start of the Escape From Berkeley race to Las Vegas. The rules are pretty simple: vehicles can't run on any form of petroleum fuel, they can only bring 10KWH equivalent of fuel to start with, and the teams must obtain all further fuel for free along the race route. Otherwise, anything goes- and they've managed to get permits to stage this madness on public roads! Make the jump to see some of the machines that will be competing for the $5,000 first prize. More » -
