This past weekend we checked out out the smart Fortwo, during the 2007 street smart road show at Urban Outfitters on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, Calif. Audience reaction to the event and the car was mostly positive, as consumers, [See the full post…]

IMPCO Technologies says it’s dedicated to a better world through cleaner fuels. Rob Mercer, IMPCO business manager, discusses the company’s systems specializing in natural gas, LNG and dual fuel applications for mobile and stationary engine uses.

What do you get when you combine hydrogen and methane? You get Hythane, an engineered alternative fuel blend patented by Hythane Company, LLC out of Littleton, Colo. David Egan, East Coast sales manager for the company, discusses the promise of [See the full post…]

GM sponsored a design competition among students the College of Creative Studies to personalize a Chevy HHR with a one-of-a-kind image, and develop a marketing campagin to go along with it. The winner? Jimmy McCammon and his Flaming Skull of [See the full post…]

World corn prices have risen considerably in recent years because of corn ethanol production. If you are poor and rely on cheap corn as your staple food, such price increases are bad news. This is just one example of how [See the full post…]

During the GM Concept & Performance Drive event at Willow Springs International Raceway, Al Oppenheiser, director of concept and vehicle integration for GM’s Performance Division, gave us a ride around the speed-limited coned course as an introduction to the Pontiac [See the full post…]

I’m no racecar driver, but I got to play one on TV (sort of)! While we were at the Willow Springs International Raceway near Rosamond, Calif., I had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of a 2004 Pontiac GTO [See the full post…]

At the GM Concept & Performance Drive event at California’s Willow Spring’s International Raceway, I had the opportunity to strap myself in next to John Heinricy, noted race car driver and director of high-performance vehicle operations for General Motors’ Performance [See the full post…]

One of the top 10 muscle cars of all time has to be the 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS convertible. So, it was quite a thrill to get a ride in this classic with Dr. Jamie Meyer, product integration manager for [See the full post…]

Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities [See the full post…]

Plants are not as efficient as you might think in capturing solar energy. Current photovoltaic panels can capture more energy per square meter — quite a bit more in fact — than biomass crops that are being suggested as feedstock [See the full post…]

Another ride in GM‘s Chevy Camaro Convertible concept with Brian Smith, at Willow Springs International Raceway, outside of Rosamond, Calif.

From the floor of the Albuquerque Convention Center, Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair provided a day full of compelling ideas. Listen to this podcast of three Malaysian high school students who have begun to study the possibility of using [See the full post…]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt have something in common: Both are conservative politicians with a rather liberal (and green) agenda. This week, they met in Sacramento, Calif., to talk about green policymaking and how to [See the full post…]

During the GM Concept Ride & Drive event at California’s Willow Springs International Raceway just outside Rosamond, we caught up with Product Integration Manager for GM Performance Parts, Dr. Jamie Meyer, who introduced us to the 1969 Reggie Jackson Camaro. [See the full post…]

During the Detroit Auto Show, I had my first glimpse of the EFIJY, GM‘s tribute to Australia’s 1953 Holden FJ. So, I didn’t have to be asked twice if I wanted to ride along in this stunning vehicle at the [See the full post…]

I met Brian Smith, exterior design manager for GM’s 2007 Chevrolet Camaro convertible, at the Detroit Auto Show, and it was a pleasure speaking with him again about the vehicle at Willow Spings International Raceway, outside Rosamond, Calif., for a [See the full post…]

Micah Jones is lead interior designer for GM‘s 2007 Chevrolet Camaro convertible. Up on the Tejon Ranch in Lebec, Calif., he gave us a ride in the concept car — then he let us get behind the wheel. It was [See the full post…]

T3 Motion of Irvine, Calif., produces personal mobility vehicles for government, security and law enforcement uses. The T3 is a 3-wheeled, zero-emission, all electric vehicle retailing for just under $8 thousand, powered by two lithium polymer battery packs. T3’s Neil [See the full post…]

At the New York International Auto Show, we got another look at the Saab Bio Power.

Sun Microsystems, KGO radio, and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were a formidable foe to eco-apathy at an environmental education event, Eco-Live, at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center Saturday. Kennedy drew a rapt crowd for his keynote address, [See the full post…]

Keith Johnston is managing director for GoinGreen, UK distributors of the G-Wiz, an electric vehicle designed in California and manufactured in India by the Indo-Reva Electric Car Company. GoinGreen’s mission is to minimize the effects of climate change by encouraging [See the full post…]

You may not be aware that coalfires, both natural and man-made, generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. In China alone, the estimated amount equals that of the U.S. transportation sector! Meet Taku Ide, a PhD student at Stanford University, who [See the full post…]

During the Alternative Fuels & Vehicle Conference, we rode in the Honda Civic hybrid with Barry Carr from Honda’s Alternative Fuel Vehicle platform program.

China’s economy is growing fast, and China’s demand for energy is growing right along with it. To accommodate this growth in a sustainable manner, China must move away from a largely coal-based energy portfolio. If it does not, the already [See the full post…]