If recent announcements from Ford are an indication of the direction that the automotive industry is headed, vehicles will soon be smarter and greener than ever before. America’s most iconic pickup truck will become a tech-lover’s hybrid by 2020. According …
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From Guest Blogger Sophie Andersen: New Concept Tyre Turns Heat and Motion Into Electricity
Mass production of electric cars throughout the world gives way to innovative concepts in the fields of green energy and sustainable design. Having said that, we are still far from achieving low greenhouse-gas emission standards. In countries as California, which …
From Guest Blogger John Cadogan: Ethanol — It’s a Gas
A war of rhetoric has erupted in the USA over Washington’s plan to compel refiners to increase the proportion of ethanol in gasoline. Carmakers are warning owners against using ethanol blends higher than 10 per cent, saying warranty claims might …
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Tesla’s Meteoric Rise in the Electric Vehicle Space
What was I thinking not buying stock in Tesla when the company turned profitable? I was telling my daughter earlier this morning that missing this opportunity made me feel like a world-class chump. What to make of this whole phenomenon? …
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Fuel Economy Standards – Getting Trickier As the Years Go By
Those of us old enough to remember can recall the day when cars sold in the U.S. – even new cars — didn’t require seat belts. And the debate here was fierce; public safety advocates had their reports detailing how …
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The Auto Industry Under a Romney Presidency
Here’s an article from Auto News that describes the automobile industry outlook under a Romney presidency. Those aggressive CAFE (fuel economy) standards will go the same place that the Republicans have promised to take all the other progress the U.S. has …
The Auto Industry Embraces Electric Vehicles – Kicking and Screaming
If you’re looking for evidence that the auto companies are resisting the migration to EVs, here’s news from sunny California. It appears that Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota have successfully lobbied the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and members of the …
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More on the Auto Industry from Wayne Goldman
Here’s an additional conversation with Wayne Goldman that I thought readers would find interesting. I happened to have rented an Audi A4 diesel when I was in Spain a couple of weeks ago that got well over 50 MPG. I …
Auto Companies' Conundrum – How To Sell What We Have Now
Steve Ryan from Australia writes: There must be millions of new internal combustion engine (ICE) cars sitting at ports and storage lots all over the world awaiting delivery to owners who do not want to buy them. I have to …
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