AutoblogGreen for 05.21.07
If you think ethanol = green, consider the possibility of an ethanol plant in Iowa (that uses potatoes or sugar beets as a feedstock) that's powered by excess heat from a nuclear power plant. It's supposed to be cheap, and it does reuse energy that might otherwise be wasted, but nuclear ethanol can't be a popular thing in some green circles, can it?
Read this and more in the weekend round-up from AutoblogGreen:
- Bush, the EPA, MPG and 2017
- Will Land Rover go diesel-only in the UK?
- Nuclear-fueled ethanol will cost only $1 a gallon to produce
- Which hybrids are - and are not - welcomed in the HOV lane
- EPA to hold public hearings on California GHG regulation waiver
- Vespa (or any other) scooters in New York: good idea or bad idea?
- GM tooling up to build new six-speed automatic for FWD cars
- D.C. utility company PHI looks to shift fleet to hybrids, biodiesel
- Livonia MI high school students create anti-gas-guzzler PSA
- Here's the Tesla WhiteStar in size 7 1/2!
- Look out road, here we come. High gas prices won't stop Memorial Day travel
- If a Sequel is too rich for your blood, you might want to try the Hydrocell bike
- Chrysler group looks to Metaldyne low-emission exhaust manifolds for PZEV vehicles
- Magna Steyr working on LiIon storage system
- Ford sponsoring new Chicago public art project: Cool Globes
- Formula One could have biofuel turbo V-6s in 2011
- More on green cars from The Union of Concerned Scientists
- Shell's "Eureka" extended commercial comes to DVD in WIRED
- Use your Ecomagination to ask GE an ecoquestion
- Clean Power Technologies developing a steam hybrid system
- Iowa State University: U.S. near tipping point in corn-based ethanol
- KBB: high gas prices changing shopping habits in U.S.
- AABC discussion on automotive lithium battery requirements
- Australia: Hino Hybrid introduced, completes 24-hour endurance trial
- Illinois State University approves Renewable Energy degree program
- Video of a test ride on an electric motorcycle
- Automakers offer an option out of CAFE regs
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