Car Sharing in Paris to Go Electric by 2009
The city of Paris will adopt a new way of transport until the end of 2009. Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced last week that the Parisians will have around 4000 public electric cars to travel with in Paris and in the near suburbs.
V2G (vehicle-to-grid): an Electric Car Payback System
The scientists from the University of Delaware created an electric car prototype that runs on electricity alone. The great fact is that it also can, theoretically, earn money for its owner by storing electricity and providing it for utilities when needed.
Mazda Makes Eco-Friendly Plastics from Biomass
Mazda Motor Corporation and Hiroshima University are researching together to develop a brand new “green” plastic material from cellulosic biomass. They want to use it in vehicles by 2013.
Toyota says “no” to Diesel hybrids
Katsuaki Watanabe, Toyota’s president, said in a speech held at the Geneva Motor Show that their company will not produce diesel hybrids in the near future, even if the competition does. For example, VW has in plan to produce its Golf Diesel Hybrid. Similar examples are offered by Mercedes Benz and BMW.
At the Detroit Auto [...]
OneCAT - the car that runs on air!
Remember an older article about a small company, called MDI, who had a plan in building a car that runs totally on air? Now they did it. OneCAT is a five-seat car, with a fiberglass body, weighting about 350kg and costing about… 4800$! And that’s cheaper than any car (maybe except the recent car from [...]
New Carbon Collecting Car - Really That Green?
Georgia Institute of Technology has created a concept of a car in a pretty new polluting fashion: it uses petrol as a fuel, but it separates hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen is used in a fuel cell, and the CO2 is collected and recycled.
Now, I know my website’s name is “greenoptimistic.com”, but this one [...]
What Does Nissan Do About Hybrid Cars?
Nissan has been building their Altima hybrid cars at their Smyrna, Tennessee plant, which has the capacity of building up to 50,000 vehicles. If demand for the Altima hybrid is great enough, Nissan may just offload some production of the traditional Altima cars to their plant in Canton, Mississippi.
While Nissan may be a bit behind [...]
Diesel or Hydrogen?
by Jack Peckham
San Diego-Futurists talk dreamily of a “hydrogen future” where the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels are replaced by “clean” hydrogen and fuel cells.
But practical reality tells a far different story today: Diesel/ distillate fuels (including jet fuel) do all the heavy lifting on this planet-for good reason.
That’s because distillates are cheap, abundant, [...]
