Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2010
In a talk at the opening plenary of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference in Washington, DC, former New York Governor George Pataki called for a 40% market penetration of electric drive vehicles in the US by the end of the decade. Gasoline is too cheap. The challenge is demand creation. —Mary Ann Wright.
Plug In Partners
FEBRUARY 15, 2006
So writes Lester Brown , President of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute , a member of the Plug in Partners Coalition. automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. Business as usual - Plan A — cannot take us where we want to go. Plan B has three components.
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
The “cash for volts&# approach was touted Monday by the Electrification Coalition, a 13-member group that sees electric plug-ins as the answer to a host of problems, from dependence on foreign oil to tailpipe emissions that some believe is contributing to global climate change. WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Move over, cash for clunkers.
Spirit of DC - PHEV3A
APRIL 2, 2009
The PHEV3A mission is to educate America on becoming independent from imported oil. The Spirit of DC will complete its nationwide educational tour back in Washington, DC during 2009 Earth Day weekend in April. He’s proved it’s Cheap to Plug-in Around America! You, too can be plug-in anywhere around America on the cheap!
My Electric Car
AUGUST 21, 2020
Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . Lambert, F.,
Green Cars News
JULY 3, 2009
It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Clearly petrol prices will eventually spiral in the country again, and with oil running out and greenhouse gas emissions proving an increasing problem something must be done to change this culture.
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