Entries Tagged as 'hybrid'
The Washington Post opinion page editor, Fred Hiatt, has made strong statements about the strength and quality of fact-checking for the columnists within his pages.
told by editorial page editor Fred Hiatt — that multiple editors had checked Will’s sources,
we don’t have lax standards for accuracy … in general, we do careful fact checking.
Despite these [...]
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April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]
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Tags: Congress · Energize America · Energy · PHEV · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · politics · renewable energy · transportation
December 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]
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Tags: Energy · PHEV · analysis · automobiles · bus · business practice · emissions · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · oil · peak oil · political symbols · politics
June 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
A brief discussion about the economic imperatives for greening the nation’s taxi fleets. But, first, acronym definition:
CtB: Cost to Buy: acquisition price, how much to purchase something
CtO: Cost to Own: total ownership costs, from purchase through operating to disposal
Quite simply, moving our collective mindset from CtB to CtO is a societal imperative.
But, to question [...]
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Tags: Energy · analysis · automobiles · business practice · commerce · eco-friendly · energy efficiency · environmental · gasoline · green · hybrid
Newsweek magazine has published a hagiography of GM Vice Chair Bob Lutz. This one-pager, Bob Lutz: The Man Who Revived the Electric Car, focusing on his role in resuscitating the electric car after GM’s efforts to kill the electric car. The 75-year Lutz is given the last word as to his vision.
Detroit’s horsepower jockey insists [...]
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AFS Trinity, a leading company in flywheel and other power storage systems, has just announced a 150 mile per gallon plug-in-hybrid variant of a Saturn VUE.
“Extreme Hybrids™ don’t need high priced technology and don’t require new or expensive fuels, such as hydrogen, which, according to Argonne National Labs, will cost twice as much as gasoline [...]
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Tags: PHEV · energy cool · fuel economy · hybrid
Just a few days ago, the first domestically developed and produced Chinese hybrid vehicle rolled off the assembly line.
”It took us 6 years to develop this hybrid and it marks the beginning of mass production of hybrid vehicles at our company today,” said Xu Liuping, the president of Changan Automobile at a celebration ceremony.
The Jiexun is [...]
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November 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles.
They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they are [...]
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Tags: PHEV · fuel economy · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks
October 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The multi-million dollar hydrogen concept cars getting, well, a little boring to me. Wonderful EcoGeek material but, well, not something I expect to be a common part of the driving scene within my lifetime (and I don’t plan on dying tomorrow).
The Ford Airstream, however, goes beyond hydrogen to some interesting features:
Hat to DSnodgrass at Celsias [...]
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Tags: PHEV · automobiles · hybrid · hydrogen
Perhaps we need to rub our eyes, but it looks like there are outbreaks of bipartisan sanity emerging on energy issues. A just introduced bill to promote plug-in hybrids is a poster child of sane policy concepts.
From co-sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-Utah):
“With the rapid industrialization of countries like India and China, the demand for gasoline is [...]
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Tags: PHEV · automobiles · hybrid