Gas 2.0

World’s Cheapest Car Gets 56 MPG; First Delivery On Schedule - Today

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 10:06 AM PDT

Today, the first customer to get a Tata Nano will take delivery of the world’s cheapest car, at $2,053 - and right on schedule. Tata had announced the first deliveries would be in July of 2009 when orders were first taken earlier this year.

For a gasoline car; the Nano has astounding mileage ; 56 mpg while producing emissions of just 101 grams of CO₂ per km, lower than even European requirements, forget about the U.S. (We have none: the sky’s the limit - literally)

Even more surprising, just old fashioned simple tech makes this price and mileage possible:

Recovery Act Announcement: DOE Announces Recovery Act Funding of up to $85 million for Algal and Advanced Biofuels

For big fans of renewable energy like me, these are just halyon days, indeed. Hardly have I finished reading that wind is to get a huge jolt from the new DOE, but today, even more huge funding is announced for biofuels development.

It’s almost enough to make you think that maybe we are not too stupid to survive, after all! Yay, us!

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $85 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop algae-based biofuels and advanced (yet infrastructure-compatible) biofuels.

DOE press release for the details: