Green Cars News

APRIL 24, 2012

The Green Piece Column. It’s very easy to stumble ahead with the ever–changing landscape of alternative fuel vehicles and not look back to recap how the market is shaping up. Tuesday, 24 April, 2012.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Exploring Ways to Green Your Current & Future Vehicles. If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. Green Vehicles. Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 17, 2008

Just about every car manufacturer has done at least a fuel cell concept , if not a ‘ production ready model ’ or even consumer testing. Hydrogen can be filled up in more or less the same way as conventional cars meaning that consumers can continue in their established transport patterns. Photo from GreenCarSite.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2012

As the US state leading the way in the green car movement, California has taken another step towards boosting its environmental commitments. The California Energy Commission has approved funding close to $2million for the upgrading of a biodiesel production facility and the buy down of alternative fuel vehicles.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 27, 2008

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. That’s the concept behind the air car , and it looks like a pretty promising technology.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2014

million of funding to ideas which could help increase the uptake of alternative fuel vehicles. Part of its Clean Cities program, the funding will support any project that could help develop the acceptance and uptake of any alternative fuel vehicles, be they[.]. Alternative fuel'

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Green Cars News

JULY 14, 2010

Congratulations are due to mobile phone network provider AT&T which has hit a significant milestone in the deployment of alternative fuel vehicles. Tags: Green cars Latest news alternative fuel vehicles AT&T CNG fleet CNG vehicles compressed natural gas vehicles.

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Green Cars News

MAY 29, 2010

It goes without saying that we all want our petrol engines to achieve better fuel economy at a lower cost – however, according to a new study, US vehicle owners would rather existing engine choices achieve this goal over opting for higher priced alternative fuel engines.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Today, we have a bit of a Tesla puzzle, a name for BMW's electric SUV, Leafs coming off the lines, and a Twitter poll on alternative fuels. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 11, 2014

The majority of Brits would consider buying or leasing an alternative fuel car in the next two years, according to new research. Electric cars Hydrogen fuel Hybrid cars LPG Editor Pick'

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2010

Registrations of alternatively fuelled cars in the UK doubled in the first six months of 2010 compared with the first half of 2009, the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show. The figures also reveal that CO2 emissions from new cars continue to decline as average CO2 rating of new [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 29, 2013

Latest News Green cars Green credentials' The delivery company has released its annual sustainability reporting announcing that even though the number of packages it shipped during 2012 increased, it was able to lower its total gr[.].

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

It may be an aggressive prediction – but a report by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute is suggesting that 90 per cent of vehicle fleets in the USA, China, Western Europe, Brazil and Japan could be running on alternative powertrain/fuels by 2050.

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Green Cars News

MAY 22, 2012

One in four business leaders have already making use of -or are considering introducing -alternative fuel vehicles to their business operations as oil prices remain stubbornly high.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2009

Within that, projects for the European Green Cars Inititative are to receive an indicative (i.e., million) for the European Green Cars Initiative topics, and the remaining €12 million for the rest of the topics. Specific topics outside of the Green Cars Initiative are: AAT.2010.7-17. assessments.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2011

According to the US Energy Information Administration, demand for alternative fuel vehicles is on the increase in US fleets. However, despite this growth, there is not necessarily increased use of alternative fuel because of the uneven access to transportation [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 8, 2011

2009 was a bleak time for the motoring industry – and alternative fuel vehicles and hybrids were not immune from the crisis, according to figures that have just been released by the US Energy Information Administration.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2010

billion) into the alternative fuel vehicle market. According to local media reports, the country’s central government wants to place China as the world’s leading market for alternative-energy vehicles by 2020. Tags: Green credentials alternative fuel China electric car hybrids invest.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Cell phone and digital service provider AT&T has backed up its commitment to green vehicles by deploying the 4,000th alternative fuel vehicle in its US corporate fleet. The vehicles are part of a 10year strategy to invest up to $565million in replacing around 15,000 fleet vehicles before 2018.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: How Tesla may beef up the battery protection system in its Model S electric car, it may be that Dimethyl Ether is the latest alternative fuel for big trucks, and the 2015 Volkswagen E-Golf is shown before its Los Angeles Auto Show debut. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That said, I never expected to find a four-year-old hydrogen fuel-cell car, more than a thousand miles from the only state in […]. The post Junkyard Find: 2017 Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell appeared first on The Truth About Cars.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 8, 2013

The market for alternative fuel vehicles rose 9.4 per cent share of the new car market. The rise in alternatives came in a year which saw sales of all new cars [.]. per cent in 2012 in the UK, according to the latest data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)-to achieve a 1.4

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Green Cars News

MAY 12, 2011

Alternative fuel vehicles will represent more than 50 per cent of the 64,000 total transit buses that will be delivered worldwide during 2015, according to a report from Pike Research. The figure is up from 28 per cent in 2010, with Pike predicting that while the market for diesel buses will remain strong, natural gas [.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2011

Registrations of alternative fuel vehicles soared in April by 48.1 per cent, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), as electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf, the Mitbushi i-MiEV and the Peugeot iON made their first deliveries to UK customers.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Fuel efficiency has been proven the watchword of buyers of new cars through January according to the latest figures from the Society Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). January saw an increase in new car registrations of 7.6 Green credentials' per cent compared to the same month of last year. While on the hunt[.].

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Green Cars News

MAY 2, 2012

After the bombshell this week that Tata has ditched plans to introduce an electric car model into the UK (see story), Tata has revealed more details of its future plans for alternative-fuel vehicles in the country, as the Indian firm continues to build its presence here. Plans to launch the Indica Vista EV have indeed [.].

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Diesel and alternative fuel cars took a record share of the new car market in the UK during November, helping to drive the overall fuel economy of the average new car to new highs of 52.5mpg. Although the overall market declined 4.2

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2011

Are Americans ready to make the switch to alternative fuel vehicles? Its national telephone survey reports that 45 per cent of American adults think it is at least “somewhat likely” they will buy a car that runs [.]. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports, it appears a decreasing number could be willing to take that step.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Alternative fuel technologies have been embraced in Seattle, after the city was awarded a $1.4million grant from the US Department of Energy to enhance its fleet of green vehicles. So how will the money be spent? It will also pick up $500,000 for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

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Green Cars News

JULY 20, 2011

It appears that while consumers still prefer petrol powered vehicles, there is increasing interest in alternative fuel vehicles. According to a report by the Mineta Transportation Institute, hybrid electric vehicles were preferred with full electric vehicles last in preference by 40 per cent of respondents.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 28, 2011

Alternative fuels have the potential to completely replace fossil fuels by 2050, according to a new reported presented to the European Commission by the stakeholder expert group on the future of transport fuels.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Hybrids are more than a short term bridge to other alternative fuel vehicles, according to the Toyota’s chairman, Takeshi Uchiyamada. Speaking in Washington at the Economic Club, Uchiyamada, who headed the development of the firm’s first hybrid, the Prius, called on the US to drive sales of [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 6, 2011

While the global economic climate may still be fairly dire, a new report suggests that for the UK auto industry growth will be driven by new technology and investment into alternative fuel powertrains over the coming few years. While rising oil prices might seem to pose a threat to auto makers, according to the latest [.].

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2010

Toyota is set to look out for further partners to collaborate over alternative fuel technology. According to the Wall Street Journal, the car giant’s president Akio Toyoda said on Friday that his company will look for more partners following the successful acquirement of a minority stake in Tesla Motors.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Green Piece. When we talk of ‘alternative fuel’ vehicles, we usually mean battery electric or hydrogen fuel cell or maybe biofuel-powered, but there is one alternative that might prove to be a more practical alternative-liquid air. Tuesday 30 October, 2012.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 13, 2010

One in four UK (28 per cent) drivers plan to buy an alternative fuel vehicle within the next three years a new survey from Datamonitor suggests. The comprehensive global survey of drivers suggests that the UK’s motorists are the keenest in Europe to get behind the wheel of an AFV vehicle while drivers in Germany, [.].

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 4, 2011

The Alternative Fuel Discount (AFD) closes to new applicants as the new Greener Vehicle Discount comes into operation. Changes to London’s Congestion Charge come into force today (January 4, 2011) which introduce a radical overhaul to the exemptions for lower emission vehicles.

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