Filed under: Etc., MPG, Green Daily

This week, the bombing of an oil pipeline in Yemen by saboteurs and a suicide bombing targeting lawmakers in Afghanistan spooked world oil markets. Those overseas events combined with rising demand and falling supplies in the US to drive oil price futures contracts to a new record high of over [...]

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Filed under: MPG, Ford, Green Daily

The November 5 issue of the New Yorker magazine has an article on fuel efficiency and the fabled car of the future. As is so often the case, comparisons are made without providing proper context. In this case, the current fleet average for new cars, 20 mpg, is compared unfavorably [...]

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Filed under: MPG, Ford, Mazda, Mercury, Green Daily

I just saw a video that included an ad that claims the 2008 Ford Escape hybrid was “the most fuel efficient SUV on Earth.” Ford has said this for years and, for years, Ford was right. This is not quite so true for the 2008 model year, though. [...]

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Filed under: Hybrid, Lexus, Toyota, Tokyo Motor Show
Thanks to Lascelles for finding this wonderful video showing the most daring concepts from Toyota and Lexus during the Tokyo Motor Show. Although in German, we can glimpse quite a number of interesting concepts such as the Hi-CT, the Rin, the i-Real (which promises unlimited mobility, according [...]

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Filed under: Etc., Transportation Alternatives, Legislation and Policy
A lot of Olympic athletes are dreading the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing because of the awful air quality in the host city. The rapid growth of the car population in China combined with all the construction going on in China’s largest cities is leading to an environmental [...]

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Dodge Cummins - Inside The Cummins 6BT5.9
Diesel Tech
By Ray T. Bohacz
photographer: David Kennedy, Courtesy of Daimlerchrysler
To those who are new to the diesel game, the Cummins B-series engine is thought of as an inline-six-cylinder engine that’s used in Dodge trucks. In reality, the B-series product line consists of three-, four-, and six-cylinder, high-swirl, direct-injection engines [...]

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