My living room is a mess. If we ignore the stacks of stuff that belongs to me (magazines and DVDs, mostly), the mess is due to my roommate’s almost-finished “appleseed biodiesel processor”. Appleseed processors, built using old water heaters, turn used vegetable oil into biodiesel and are safe enough to build in the back yard or, well, living room. My roommate got the blueprints in the excellent Biodiesel Homebrew Guide, a comple
How would you feel if one of the most anxiously awaited automotive arrivals in recent history were just swiped from your showroom floor? Infiniti dealers are reacting to Carlos Ghosn’s announcement last week that the GT-R, the latest iteration of the company’s Skyline sports car designed for total global consumption, would be sold in the U.S. with a Nissan hood ornament. Ghosn cited the
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Meijer, a supermarket chain that's little known outside of the US but arguably represents the Salt Belt's best defense against Wal-Mart, plans to offer E85 at 20 locations in Michigan. That may not sound like a lot, but there are currently only five locations that offer E85 in the state at this time. Meijer's involvement will represent the first major effort by a retailer to add E85 fueling capacity in the state.
Once again the boys and girls over at Inside Line have sold their souls to the devil in order to gain access to a preproduction version of the 2007 Nissan Altima before the car even debuted at the New York Auto Show last week. Their initial impressions of Nissan’s most significant sedan are v
It's not going to be participating in any high-speed vehicle chases, but Daimler-Chrysler's fuel cell police car will be carrying out other police bussiness for Wayne State's University Police Department in Detroit. Wayne State University is already a maverick, since it's the first school where students can earn a master's degree in alternative energy, and now they've taken delivery of the first ever fuel cell cop car. The Mercedes-Benz A-Class based F-Cell
