Instead they are to build their first hybrid, a non-plug-in, at a plant in New Jersey that is set to close in 2009. I bet if they were to make it America's...
HI This is a politically active world we live in. I hear folks demanding better batteries and PHEVs and for the gov to step in and make it happen. We are all...
The Electric Vehicle Association of Washington, DC and the National Electric Drag Racing Association are putting on an exhibition of electric vehicles and...
The Ethanol Frenzy II: converting corn to ethanol Let's look at the dollar cost of producing ethanol, ignoring the "energy return on energy invested" stuff for...
One of the reasons EVs are always killed off is because of the old fossils who side with the oillies. Moles inside the EVA, supposedly "ev backers", really do...
I think it is good to research ethanol production, and supplement our oil usage with ethanol, but it can never replace oil. What I understand, is that if every...
"The energy balance for ethanol made from maize is the subject of much controversy, but America's energy department puts it at 1.3; in other words, the ethanol...
I agree with you . ... From: roderickdsage <rsage@...> To: electric_vehicles_for_sale@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 9:38:02 AM Subject:...
Unfortunately the oil companies and the automakers have Congress in their hip pocket. They love to complain that the technology to get better mileage isn't...
all i have to say is while our troops are in iraq fighting for what i believe is the "war to keep the oil coming in america" for these companies that could...
There also is a great benefit from the corn that gets digested in the fermintation process. Protein content is greatly enhanced and beef cows in particular can...
Our craving for comfort & convenience provides financial institutions, large organizations and governments the control. They easily generate revenue (taxes)...
... Amen! I agree with you all the way. With all the monety wasted on the Trashkanistan and Iraq wars we could reform the Healthcare System, so EVERYBODY could...
GM was deterimined to kill the Electric car from the start, that's why it ignored the demand which even the EV1 "specialists" documented (against GM policy,...
GM is indeed just plain talk and no walk. Yesterday, I attended the Alternative Fuels conference in Anaheim. It was early and they were just setting up things...
CARB now has the right, apparently, to regulate CO2 emissions. This eliminates a whole raft of dodges used by GM, like the "partial zero emission car". In...
So often, obstructionists and false directions do the work of the oil companies and their powerful lobby. Make no mistake, the oil men are dangerous, clever,...
Doug: You tar the batteries powering all Phoenix EVs and every proposed new major-maker EV as "a Lithium wild goose chase." I believe that the Subaru and...
... Lithium is a wild goose chase only for GM's Volt, because GM already knows, or should know, that the NiMH batteries in the Toyota RAV4- EV, made by...
I think the question then becomes : How renewable is the resource that you are turning into ethanol? Cedar trees are not regrown annually the way many crops...
IMHO ethanol is a subsidized scam ..... for more in depth studies .... http://www.theoildrum.com/search/node/ethanol ... that you are turning into ethanol? ......
Hmmm doesn't the Rav4 EV meet all the critiera below????(except for range) Lawrence Rhodes..... Multi-million-dollar X Prize set for automotive innovation ...
Friends of mine LOVE to poke fun at my Honda Elite 80 scooter until I inform them it gets 90 MPG and has bought itself in gas savings over 1 1/2 years. Then...
One industry stink-tank is now claiming that the EPA can refuse to regulate CO2 emisssions. As stupid as Bush, they fantasize on that the states won't require...
Agreed, cedar is not a "crop" that grows fast, but there is an abundance of it. Maybe a "grass clipping" collection center would work. How many bags of grass...
