Posts Tagged ‘green technology’
A wealthy Arab man, thought to be a Sheikh, recently had his black and gold Lamborghini LP640 flown 3,250 miles to London via Qatar Airways and trucked to a certified UK Lamborghini dealership last Friday for a fluid change, which cost him a paltry £3,552 compared to the £20,000 round-trip flight.......
EPA seeks armistice in horsepower wars
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Margo Oge, EPA director-office of transportation and air quality, has made a plea to the auto industry to end the current horsepower wars that have produced such vehicles as the 620-hp Corvette ZR1. Instead, she hopes the industry, specifically domestic automakers, will start a new war, a green war,......
Rumormill: Toyota considering hybrid racer at 2010 Le Mans
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Click for gallery of the Tokachi-winning Denso SARD Supra HV-RAccording to the Yomiyuri Shimbun newspaper, Toyota is considering a return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2010 with a hybrid racing car. This seems like a natural progression for the automaker, which has entered hybrids in the last two To......
Turn off your AC: Nation’s power grid can handle 180 million EVs
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Although there is a lot of debate about what type of green technology will be the best for our environment and our economy into the future, plug-in hybrids appear to be growing in popularity. One of the concerns with this type of alternative energy vehicle is what will happen to our power grid when ......
Ford Bold Moves - Episode 25: A little bit of Rouge
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Ford's Rouge plant is an icon in automotive manufacturing, having at one time built the Model A, military warcraft after WWI and during WWII, 40 years of the Mustang and currently the F-150. It's over 100 years old, but you wouldn't know it while on a tour of the facility. Ford has revamped Rouge to......
F1 making itself even more green
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Green and racing don't seem like natural allies. Making a car more environmentally friendly or making a racecar go faster seemed to be at opposite ends of the spectrum when it came to automotive technology. And yet there have been glimpses of the two coming together for the benefit of all. The Audi ......
Bill Ford winning all arguments
Sunday, March 13th, 2005
The fine folks at Newsweek feature Bill Ford in their latest issue. The piece lacks some focus as it describes Ford trying to bring his namesake company back to the forefront of green technology that he promised when he took over back in the late 20th century. That may seem like eons ago as Toyota i......
Environmentalists give Ford plant thumbs up, F-150 thumbs down
Sunday, March 6th, 2005
The recently revamped Ford Rouge truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan is receiving applause from environmentalists for its innovative use of green technology. A living roof provides energy saving insulation with a specially formulated sod, large skylights allow natural light to illuminate the assembly ......