This week at TreeHugger: A Southern California carwash gets religion and starts using solar power while a Manchester church starts recycling the baptismal water to wash cars. The chairman of Tesla, the company that unveiled the ravenously fast electric roadster last week, says that affordable, family-friendly electric cars are coming, and that the roadster's success will fuel the progress of the elusive EV sedan. Sick of gas pump gougery, Americans have sent scooter sales up 200%, and the two-wheelers' electric counterparts are starting to clamor at the gate. Segway's Centurion, coming in somewhere between an electric car and scooter, is ready to make an appearance, Austin, Texas steps forward as the unlikely biodiesel capital of the country, and Flexcar sends carsharing to college.
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