Filed under: MPG
While the corporate average fuel economy requirements in the energy bill that was passed last week mean a lot of extra work for automakers, some see it as an opportunity. One of those is Ricardo. The engineering consultancy that specializes in power-train work has set up a new unit called Total Vehicle Fuel [...]

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Filed under: Hybrid, Lexus, Green Daily
Lexus hybrids are green in name only. The battery power offered by the hybrid drivetrain is used mainly for a power boost instead of making a serious dent in emissions or greatly increasing the mpg ratings of the vehicles. Given that a green image is more important to Lexus than [...]

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Filed under: Ethanol, Green Daily, Holidash
Is the ethanol lobby prepared to be the grinch of Christmas present? According to a recent article in The Economist, growing more profitable corn (for the ethanol market ) turned many Pacific Northwest farmers away from hops and barley and onto corn. Therefore, small beer brewers are having a hard [...]

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Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive

Greenbacks! That is the other green. How much have Americans paid to move themselves around in 2007 vs. prior years? Well the Energy Information Administration monitors fuel prices all over the country to tell us. Money, as you know, is convertible into all kinds of things. We can turn it into food, [...]

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Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Carbon Offset, Green Daily

Everybody needs a snack sometimes, so you might as well at least have something good for you. Eco-planet makes a line of organic cookies that come in a variety of shapes, one of which looks vaguely like a certain hybrid, a favorite of many of our readers. [...]

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Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, In The AutoblogGreen Garage, Green Daily
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Toyota unveiled the second generation of their Highlander crossover last February at the Chicago Auto Show and it followed the all too familiar pattern of bigger, wider, heavier. Fortunately it didn’t grow a whole size class the [...]

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Filed under: Green Culture, Carbon Offset, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Carbon Capture

An 800 lb gorilla. That is what our own Al Gore called the U.S. while at the UN Climate Change meeting. Now, I know Al Gore is not a big hero with everyone who reads this website, but I respect his honesty. All the Chevy Volts [...]

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