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Clean Energy Saves Americans Money

September 17, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AIG, CAFE, cleanenergy, drilling, energyefficiency, fueleconomy, fueleconomystandards, gasprices, OCS, oil, oildependence, oildrilling, oilsavings, outercontinentalshelf, policy, security, vehicles

Efficiency and other clean energy measures are sound investments for the near and long-term. I realize right now that it's hard to believe that sound investments exist. The financial center at Wall Street seems to be crumbling with the news that...

Cool New Car Sticker Shows Which Are Cleanest

May 8, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
CARB, carlabel, cleancars, driveclean, fueleconomy, globalwarming, simplesteps, smog

Car shopping? Coming very soon in California is a handy new window sticker that makes it easy to choose the cleanest vehicles. It’s terrific in its simplicity; each car, SUV, minivan or pickup will get a 1-10 score on the...

California Tells Automakers to Bring Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles to the Showroom

March 30, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, CARB, cars, electriccars, globalwarming, PHEVs, pluginhybrids, vehicles, ZEVs

Tens of thousands of plug-in hybrid vehicles will start hitting the roads in 2012 due to last Thursday’s decision by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). In an update of the Zero Emission Vehicle program, CARB established plug-in hybrids as...

Plug In for Clean Air

February 26, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
airpollution, cars, electriccars, electricitygrid, EPRI, globalwarming, PHEVs, pluginhybrids, soot, vehicles

As someone who has been enthusiastically watching and promoting plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, I was concerned that the headline of an article in USA Today (“Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution,” Feb. 26) could lead to misperceptions about the...

Plug-ins: The Next Generation of Hybrids

January 14, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, chevroletvolt, detroitautoshow, globalwarming, lithiumbatteries, pluginhybrids, toyota, ZEV

Yesterday, giant automaker Toyota released some very hopeful news about the availability of advanced batteries to power plug-in hybrid vehicles. At the annual North American International Automobile Show, Toyota Motor Corporation’s CEO Katsuaki Watanabe announced that beginning in 2010 the...