Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm talks about the “rebound” in her state’s manufacturing jobs.
Granholm, speaking with Matt Miller on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart,” also discusses prospects for electric vehicles. (This report is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
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Want a solar Car? Mechanical designer Art Haines, of Maine, built one from scratch with the help of high school students. If they can do it, why can’t Detroit?
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Through an initiative that highlights the growing demand for cleaner domestic vehicles, AT&T announced plans to invest up to $565 million as part of a long-term strategy to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and approximately $215 million to begin replacing its passenger cars with alternative-fuel models. AT&Ts investment represents the largest U.S. corporate commitment to CNG vehicles to date. The new deployments will bring AT&Ts alternative-fuel fleet to more than 15,000 vehicles by 2019. Visit http://www.att.com to learn more.
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As global warming concerns and emission standards threaten vehicle production in the United States, General Motors is exhaustively researching alternative-fuel technologies, including Hydrogen Fuel Cells. A fuel cell creates electricity to power an electric motor via an electrochemical reaction, utilizing Hydrogen (created from water through electrolysis). GM has chosen to showcase its Hydrogen Fuel Cell system in its crossover SUV, the Chevrolet Equinox — bucking the anti-SUV trend by creating a vehicle that can carry the entire family and its cargo all while emitting nothing but water from the tailpipe. Currently Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicles are only available through the Project Driveway Program — a user trial designed to collect as much information as possible from drivers and onboard data collectors. GM hopes to use this data to one day incorporate Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology into other vehicles. Check out the video below to learn all about the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicle with kbb’s Video Production Editor Beth Lear-VanderYacht.
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President Obama Endorses Clean Vehicles Promoting Cleaner, More Efficient Vehicles President Obama signs a Presidential Memorandum that calls for new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks and promotes the development of electric and alternative fuel vehicles.
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Video by Plug-in Partners promoting the many benefits of Plugin Hybrids Electric Vehicles.
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Our green car expert explains why high cost slowed the expansion of eclectic vehicles and how certain fuel cell batteries are replacing them in this free environmental automotive vehicle.
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(This is a shortened version taken from the Future Fuels DVD – www.futurefuels.tv)
Once considered obscure, Hybrid cars are now taking the market by storm. And the next generation of 100% electric cars are on the horizon. The good news is that consumers now have a whole host of new car options that offer less trips to the gas station.
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2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid vs. 2008 Mercedes-Benz GL320 CDI
No one’s talking about it, but the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid and 2008 Mercedes-Benz GL320 CDI are the two most fuel-efficient full-size SUVs on the market. We guess that makes Paris Hilton, proud owner of a 2008 GMC Yukon Hybrid, the hybrid Tahoe’s twin, a forward-thinking early adopter at the vanguard of the green car movement.
Truthfully, calling either of these SUVs “green” might border on an insult to the color, not to mention the movement. These are still large, comfortable vehicles with more torque than the average commuter needs and more seats than most families will use, perfect for vacations but decadent in daily life.
But these vehicles are more reasonable when you consider that the four-wheel-drive 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid earns an EPA rating of 20 mpg city/20 mpg highway, and the all-wheel-drive 2008 Mercedes-Benz GL320 CDI rates 18 mpg city/24 mpg highway. This works out to a combined rating of 20 mpg for both SUVs — a big achievement for a full-size sport-utility.
When it comes to large sport-utilities, think of this as a practicality test for hybrid and diesel. In other words, if you want to drive something big without feeling bad, this is what it’s all about.
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He was tall, looked fit in his spandex bicycling gear and — the reason we were a bit nervous — he was glaring at the little silver roadster with distaste. Had we inadvertently forced him off the road on one of our passes while photographing the electric-powered 2008 Tesla Roadster? No. His problem, it turns out, is that the car is “too quiet.” The Tesla, clean and silent but for the hiss of tires on asphalt and the whine of the electric motor’s cooling fan, disturbed him because he didn’t hear it coming as we scooted by him on a twisty section of Skyline Boulevard in the mountains above Tesla’s headquarters in San Carlos, California.
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