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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. 21 ] Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave - Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 2015. [

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Energy Research projects receive financial boost

Green Cars News

Among the projects to benefit are an effort to develop new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids with 6-20 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries at just one third of the cost; and a project to produce a flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

“This is little more than a panicked way of propping up the industry as, given time; those cashing in the grants would most likely have bought the new car anyway. According to a study by Clean Green Cars, vehicles traded under the scheme are almost never cars that would normally be traded in against a new car.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. Why grant them the privledge to spend our money in the first place? The car will simply fall away if GM folds. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem.

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