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Image and video hosting by TinyPic EVAProducts' motorcyle website says that their diesel motorcyle will run on vegetable oil. The Dutch company's site says that they will be taking orders for the Track Dieselpowered Motorcycle in October 2006. It doesn't look like they have a complete bike yet, the pictures of it are all computer generated. They have a short video clip of an incomplete bike being started up. I hope this is for real. EVAProducts lists on their main website some other very ambitious fields of interest.


Style has rarely been a priority in industrial design for the disabled - until now that is. Designed in Hungary, the Kenguru is a car specially designed for wheelchair users. The car’s interior space has no front seat – just a space built to house the driver’s own wheelchair so all he/she has to do is simply roll in through the extra large car doors and into position. The wheelchair locks into place, within easy reach of the car’s controls which are centred around a joystick. It’s light years away from the current options for disabled drivers, which involve having to hoist themselves into the driver’s seat of standard cars. by Billy T


batts funny, 'cause Avestor seemed to have everything in the right place and hwat happened? Nothing! And when it comes to electric vehcicles, Lithium Polymer is king. This is how we're going to get those miles-per-charge autonomy that people need to hear about before they give up their V6 (or for the more evoloved before they give up their prius). And so giddy with glee to read that Advanced Battery Technologies Inc. signed the rights to Dutch Co. Lefeber Management to distribut the batteries all over europe (N America can't be too far away....). Aiiiight!


Chinese cities that destroyed bike lanes to widen roads for cars or new buildings are being ordered to put the pathways back, the government said Thursday amid efforts to battle the choking smog and traffic brought on by booming car use. Qiu Baoxing, a vice minister with the Ministry of Construction said it was important that China retain its title "kingdom of bicycles," according to a report by the official Xinhua News Agency.


Image and video hosting by TinyPic Interesting government site that outlines inefficiencies in Internal Combustion Engines, supposedly to promote more energy efficient technologies.


Restrictions on night flights could ease the aviation industry's fast-growing contribution to global warming, say UK scientists. At certain altitudes, aircraft produce contrails - the vapour wake caused when water in the chilly atmosphere is condensed by the plane's hot exhaust. These contrails have a surprisingly big but also complex effect on the climate. Because they are clouds, they trap heat that is emitted by the Earth's surface, creating a "greenhouse effect" that adds to warming. Yet during daytime, these clouds have a cooling effect because they are white and thus reflect some of the Sun's energy back into space


Image and video hosting by TinyPic It's called the "VortexValve™" – manufactured in the USA by Air Synergy Labs and patented in both the U.S. and Canada. According to an article published in the Bio/Tech News, this ingenious, low-cost device modifies the way air enters an engine, thereby increasing the engine's ability to burn fuel more efficiently. Increasing fuel combustion increases engine performance -- which means you don't have to press as far down on the gas pedal to get the same kind of results (speed, acceleration, etc.). It also means your gas mileage increases – and that means big savings at the pump. And, for those concerned more about the environment rather than their own pocketbooks and the future of the American republic, there's also good news: By increasing engine performance and efficiency, you not only save on fuel costs but an important, extra bonus is that you also reduce the amount of emissions going out the exhaust pipe, so there is less pollution.


"Japan has decided to make all gasoline-powered vehicles in Japan run on fuel that contains 10 percent environment-friendly ethanol by 2030. Japan's Environment Ministry will enact legislation for require all new vehicles to be compatible with a blend of 90-percent petrol and 10-percent ethanol (E10) by 2012, the Asahi Shimbun reported Monday."


This is the website for the MIT vehicle design summit where students from around the world have come together to try to tackle important transportation issues. The summit started the 13th, so there's not a lot of content up yet, but plan on more coming soon from these guys.


Smart Roadster The sexy little 55 mpg Smart Roadster is being revived by MG and could be making its way to U.S. shores as soon as 2007.


Which cars pollute less? a comparative table with details (consumption, power, ...)


"Portland-based Freightliner (a unit of DaimlerChrysler) says it is supplying 93 hybrid-power chassis to FedEx and UPS for walk-in vans, according to a spokeswoman. Freightliner expects to make another announcement about hybrid vehicles later this summer." "FedEx says the hybrids it has introduced to its fleet have cut fuel costs by a third when compared with conventional vehicles. UPS, which is ordering 50 hybrids from both Freightliner and International Truck and Engine, says it believes that it will save 44,000 gallons a year by using those hybrids compared with conventional diesel trucks." Picture.


Image and video hosting by TinyPic NOW talks to director Chris Paine about his upcoming documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" The film looks at the hopeful birth and untimely death of the electric car, an environmentally-friendly, cost-saving salvation to some, but a profit barrier to others.


tommy OK, so they are jumping on the WKTEC? bandwagon, sure.. but Bill Moyers has always been interested in these things... it's just that the floodgate has been busted open now... anyhoo it's quite an informative page.. cool timeline from the first actual EV (1832) to Thomas Edison's EV and EV Batteries (pictured at right) all the way through the 70's to the Crushed EV1 at the end of the line... but it aint over yer at all-- PUHEVs are just the tip, George 22Tango Clooney knows it, you know it... its going to happen, 100% electric, baby!


"Though the name "Multi Fuel Prototype" is more than likely to conjure up images of a car that resembles the form of the 3CC, this running concept is based on a standard, production V70 station wagon, although painted in a non-standard, vibrant electric yellow. The goal of the Multi Fuel Prototype is to make the vehicle efficiently run on five different types of fuel; standard gasoline, E85 (bioethanol), natural gas, biomethane, and hythane. The most intriguing fuel of the bunch is hythane, which, going off the alternative fuels nomenclature is a mix of hydrogen and methane. Hythane is a new type of alternative fuel blend, which, in this particular application consists of 10 percent hydrogen, and 90 percent methane. Aside from being able to run on five different types of fuel, whats truly amazing about the Multi Fuel Prototype is that its performance remains relatively consistent, irregardless of the fuel that its being run on. Volvo pegs the turbocharged engine at producing around 200 horsepower, which is easily sufficient to power the full-size wagon."

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