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I cover green politics, renewable energy, and climate change for MNN.com, play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, and love living a greener small city life in Portland, Maine.

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Top Gear team builds EV, shows how complex car production...

Rated Nov 27 • 1 review • cars • engadget.com
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Chrysler Electric Car Programs Dumped

Rated Nov 16 • 2 reviews • cars, environment, electric, chrysler • twilightearth.com

From the page: "Remember how much money Chrysler received from the federal government in bailout money? $12.5 billion, according to USA Today�s DriveOn blog. The car maker was able to secure those funds, in part, because it promised to ramp up its efforts to produce electric vehicles."
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Animated Engines

Rated Nov 16 • 6 reviews • cars • animatedengines.com
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Road Train Autopilot Driving System Cuts Fuel...

Rated Nov 12 • 1 review • cars, environment, travel, green travel, green • treehugger.com

It's one of those ideas that crosses your mind while you're stuck in never-ending stop and go traffic on some ugly stretch of the highway: what if there were some sort of a sensor that could put all of those cars into lockstep? Some sort of automated driving system that would keep that SOB from cutting you off and wedging himself into your lane--something that would make the whole process more efficient, help control the traffic flow, and even let you take your hands off the wheel for long stretches of road.

Well, a test version of exactly that is underway in Europe--it's called the 'road train', and it could revolutionize highway driving.
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Most common Clunkers deal: old pickup for new pickup -...

Rated Nov 10 • 1 review • cars, environment, cash for clunkers • contracostatimes.com

WASHINGTON -- The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.

The single most common swap -- which occurred more than 8,200 times -- involved Ford F-150 pickup owners who took advantage of a government rebate to trade their old trucks for new Ford F-150s. They were 17 times more likely to buy a new F-150 than, say, a Toyota Prius. The fuel economy for the new trucks ranged from 15 mpg to 17 mpg based on engine size and other factors, an improvement
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of just 1 mpg to 3 mpg over the clunkers.

Owners of thousands more large old Chevrolet and Dodge pickups bought new Silverado and Ram trucks, also with only barely improved mileage in the middle teens, according to AP's analysis of sales of $15.2 billion worth of vehicles at nearly 19,000 car dealerships in every state. Those deals helped the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado -- along with Ford's Escape midsize SUV -- climb into the Top 10 most-popular vehicles purchased with the government rebates. The most common truck-for-truck and truck-for-SUV deals totaled at least $911 million.
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Going car-free on MNN | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Rated Nov 08 • 1 review • cars, car free, bicycling, environment • mnn.com

Giving up the car can save you money, keep you fit, and makes for a healthier planet. Just say no to the automobile.
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Miami News - Miami parking nightmare: From the homeless...

Rated Nov 06 • 1 review • cars, crime, miami, urban, parking • miaminewtimes.com

Haitian cabbie Pierre Jean-Charles climbed into his yellow taxi van while cradling a bottle of Coke and a bag of Doritos -- the customary get-me-through snack for the 51-year-old full-time student and father of five. He had parked at a meter in front of a corner store at 75th Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was before noon September 7, Labor Day, and the sweltering streets were full of people draped in towels, wearing bathing suits, and flip-flopping to the beach.

Jean-Charles found that an SUV had parked inches behind him, jamming him in. He honked and stepped out of the taxi, gesturing for the woman behind the SUV's steering wheel to back up.

A short, stocky Hispanic man emerged from the passenger side and stomped toward the cab. "Where you from?" the man snapped.
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Ford Not Sold on Battery-Swapping for Electric Cars :...

Rated Oct 30 • 1 review • cars, electric cars, environment, technology, ford • treehugger.com

From the page: "A Good Idea that Faces Many Big Challenges
I couldn't resist using that old photo from an experiment that Mercedes did in the 1970s with battery swapping. The modern version of that technology is a lot more automated than this (see our post about Better Place's robotized swapping station), but the general idea is the same and not all the auto makers that are working on electric cars are enthused about it. Among those that aren't sold on the idea is Ford."
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VW Showcases Bio-CNG with Scirocco Racing Cup, Claims 80%...

Rated Oct 30 • 1 review • cars, environment, biofuels, vw, green • treehugger.com

From the page: "Bio-CNG is an Improvement on Gasoline and Diesel
Compressed natural gas (CNG) is cleaner than gasoline, both in smog-forming emissions and in CO2, but CNG from bio-sources (as opposed to fossil fuels) is even cleaner and closer to carbon neutral, depending how it is made and compressed. That's why Volkswagen has been looking into bio-CNG for a while. Their latest showcase of this technology will take the form of a single-make racing cup where Scirocco running on bio-CNG will compete. "
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French Billionaire Invests $120 Million in Electric Car...

Rated Oct 28 • 1 review • cars, canada, electric cars, environment, green • treehugger.com

From the page: "For Pininfarina-Bolloré Bluecar and Bolloré Microbus
In what is probably a good sign for the North-American availability of the Bluecar electric vehicle, French billionaire Vincent Bolloré has picked a location East of Montréal to make lithium-metal-polymer batteries. The plan is to increase production to 5,000 units/year in 2010 and 15,000 units/year by 2012, which means hiring 200 employees on top of the 70 that currently work at the facility. "
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