• How Chrysler, Fiat design team splits the world

    Updated: 2009-11-27 13:00:00
    Fiat plans to engineer small vehicles while letting Chrysler design the larger vehicles, all of which will be sold as Chrysler or Fiat cars.

  • Mitsubishi mulls gasoline version of wee EV

    Updated: 2009-11-26 13:00:00
    Mitsubishi considers selling a gasoline-powered "i" minicar in the U.S.

  • Looking under Nissan's Leaf

    Updated: 2009-11-25 22:20:00
    Nissan brings its Leaf all-electric car to CNET headquarters.

  • To thwart speculators, Lexus to lease, not sell, 500 LFAs

    Updated: 2009-11-25 13:00:00
    Lexus plans to control the quality experience of its new LFA supercar by not selling the vehicles until after a two-year lease expires.

  • One tall order: getting into a Tesla Roasdster

    Updated: 2009-11-25 08:40:22
    Web video of a guy, 6'6", getting in and out of a Tesla Roadster.

  • Car Tech Live Podcast 146: The deal unravels--Is Saab dead?

    Updated: 2009-11-25 06:20:00
    The Saab deal unravels: Is the Swedish tech innovator dead? What we're looking for at the L.A. auto show. The best time to buy a car may surprise you. BMW revamps the 5-Series and makes a run at the kind of diesel America never loved and Europe always ... Originally posted at Car Tech Live Podcast

  • Global cooling? Statisticians say no.

    Updated: 2009-11-19 23:20:00
    Recent radio ads by the so-called Friends of Science repeat claims that despite the fuss over global warming, the climate has actually been cooling over the past decade. A reporter for the Associated Press fed the raw data to some statisticians and asked them to sort it out. Their conclusion? We're still heating up. Claims of cooling come from cherry-picking statistics and a failure to pay attention to long term trends. Statisticians reject global cooling claims

  • Shrink your 'Water Footprint'

    Updated: 2009-11-16 21:12:17
    Green Blog Helping environmentally-conscientious business leaders choose environmentally-friendly . solutions About Me Full Bio Welcome to Green Blog Blog Two Paths to Service Class Packet Optical IP Telephony from A-Z IDC report : Profitability and OSS Support : A Return on Investment . Home Archives TMCnet blogs Rich Tehrani Tom Keating On Rad's Radar The Readerboard Unified Communications The SIP Invite First Coffee The Hyperconnected Enterprise Cross Talk Monetizing IP Communications Design vs . Functionality Green Blog VoIP Forums About Me Contact Channels Community Sites Shrink your Water Footprint' The best information sources are often your . readers I received an e-mail last week from Jim McGilligan , who has a degree in engineering from the University of Delware , who just came across this article on water and energy titled : What is your water footprint published in the Lafourche Parish , La . Daily Comet Written by Tom Rooney , president and CEO of SPG Solar in Novato , Calif the article is the best I've ever seen on this topic , Jim tells . me The article raises the key points that we should consider water consumption and concern ourselves with the amounts of energy

  • Thanks to all great partners!

    Updated: 2009-11-16 04:37:56
    The ElectroCat wouldn't have been the famous motorcycle it is without these...

  • University of Denver - here I come!

    Updated: 2009-11-05 22:53:39
    Once in a while - dreams come true! My dream has just came true - I will...

  • BC Hydro: "conservation" rate hits big families hardest

    Updated: 2009-11-04 17:21:00
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Monday November 30, 2009 BC Hydro : conservation rate hits big families hardest By CraigMcInnes 4 Nov 2009 COMMENTS(2 Feeling the Heat Filed under : climage change alternative energy hydroelectric power BC Hydro My column from The Vancouver Sun , Wednesday Nov.4 , 2009. A funny thing happened when I opened my hydro bill this month it was less than I expected . A lot less , in fact representing a drop of 25 per cent from the same period last . year The other unexpected thrill was that my family's electricity usage slipped below the threshold for paying the higher rate charged under the two-tiered conservation plan imposed last . spring I'd like to be able to tell you this is another step on the march toward a greener . future Sadly , I have to report that is not a case of BC Hydro's green energy plan having the desired effect of encouraging conservation with the stick of a higher cost per kilowatt for customers who break through the arbitrary limit of 1,350 kilowatt hours in any two-month billing . period No , our electricity habits are about the same . What's changed in our house is that my niece and her husband have moved out of our

  • Is Wind Energy Green or Greenwash?

    Updated: 2009-11-02 16:20:08
    Green Blog Helping environmentally-conscientious business leaders choose environmentally-friendly . solutions About Me Full Bio Welcome to Green Blog Blog Two Paths to Service Class Packet Optical IP Telephony from A-Z IDC report : Profitability and OSS Support : A Return on Investment . Home Archives TMCnet blogs Rich Tehrani Tom Keating On Rad's Radar The Readerboard Unified Communications The SIP Invite First Coffee The Hyperconnected Enterprise Cross Talk Monetizing IP Communications Design vs . Functionality Green Blog VoIP Forums About Me Contact Channels Community Sites Is Wind Energy Green or Greenwash The Friday Oct.30 edition of the Peace Arch News that is distributed in South Surrey and White Rock , British Columbia in Metro Vancouver that borders on the U.S . contained a thought-provoking snippet on wind power by Dr . Roy Strang who covers the environment for the . publication In it he writes : Europeans are beginning to find that installing windmills to generate electricity has not led to any significant reduction in CO2 emissions--despite all the early hopes and promises . Because wind power blows only fitfully , backup conventional generators are needed , at full

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