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2008 - Year of the ???

November 11, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, cleanenergy, cleantech, hybridcars, investment, markettransformation, solar, wind

Cai Steger, our former summer business fellow extraordinaire, sent me an email recently positing a set of year and cleantech pairings. As he put it: It certainly seems as though the last few years, one specific technology has captured the...continued

The GM Volt is cool, but what before then?

September 24, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
GM, honda, hybridcars, markettransformation, toyota, volt

Last week, my favorite technology writer, David Pogue, ran his interview with GM's Bob Lutz about GM's cool Volt concept. For those of you that don't know, as envisioned, the Volt would be an electric drive vehicle with a small...continued

Smart and green on the streets of NYC

July 20, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
hybridcars, markettransformation, newyork, pictures, smartcar, taxis, vehicles

The car gods smiled on me this morning on the way to work. First I saw my first Smart Car tucked, I mean parked cutely on a corner where any other car would have gotten a ticket. I read ages...continued

Ford delivers first 3 FFV hybrids

June 18, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
ethanol, FFV, ford, hybridcars

The Governors' Ethanol Coalition reported today that Ford has delivered the first 3 (count'm 1, 2, 3...) hybrid vehicles that can run on gasoline or up to 85 percent ethanol. Of course Ford's hybrid also happens to be an SUV--the...continued

GM's new entry in the electric hybrid race

January 7, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
autoindustry, GM, hybridcars, newtechnologies, pluginhybrids

Wired has a nice article on GM's new concept car, the Chevy Volt. The Volt is being released today at the North American International Auto Show and is a first in a series they're calling the E-Flex line. As the...continued

Nathanael Greene
Nathanael Greene
Director of Renewable Energy Policy
New York City
I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...
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