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EPA Proposes New Regulations for Renewable Fuel Standard to Implement Requirements of EISA; GHG Reduction and Indirect Land Use Change Effects Included

Green Car Congress

It must also achieve a lifecycle GHG emission reduction of at least 60%, compared to the gasoline or diesel fuel it displaces. Second, its lifecycle GHG emissions must be at least 50% less than the gasoline or diesel fuel it displaces. Biomass-based diesel. First, EISA requires that such fuel be made from renewable biomass.

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Plug-in Manufacturers Grow

Plug In Partners

clip The Japanese dominate battery tech these days, but Hyundai says the Koreans could catch up by 2013 -- at which point the company hopes to put a plug-in hybrid on the road. There's even some speculation at least one of them could be stamped " Made in the USA." We'll see the first of the Hyundais to use that technology in November.

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