Monday, April 26, 2010

Gas 2.0

Gas 2.0

China Primed to Dominate Electric Vehicle Market

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT

It was a couple years ago, when China overtook the U.S. as the largest new car market in the world, that it started to become clear to me the U.S. wouldn’t have the same influence in the development of this next generation of automobiles as we did in the first.

As witnessed by the incredible amount of diversity of green car tech at the Beijing Auto Show this year, China has suddenly become the place to watch for emerging car trends — and it’s getting a larger share of the limelight to boot.

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GM Posts New Chevy Volt Video; Tries to Simplify Explanation of EREV Tech

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT

As we get closer to the launch of the Chevy Volt extended range electric vehicle (EREV), it’s becoming clear that GM has some hard work ahead of themselves trying to figure out how best to explain to the average consumer everything from EREV fuel economy to how a range-extender system works.

In a new short video, GM walks you through what they think could be just about the average daily commute for many people — plus they use some fancy graphics from Google Earth to make sure you are wowed by flying and zooming over the world as we learn about Volt commuting!

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Porsche 918 Spyder Potential Buyer List Now 900 Strong

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 11:10 AM PDT

We’ve seen it, we’ve lusted after it and we’ve dreamed of owning it. Combining amazing fuel economy (78 mpg) with rockstar performance (0-60 mph in 3 seconds) and sexy curves, the Porsche 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid concept supercar has been on the minds of green speed freaks ever since its debut in Geneva earlier this year. Porsche has been hinting that they will eventually build it, saying that they’ve never made a concept car they didn’t actually put into production.

Well, now it looks like it’s essentially a sure thing after comments by a Porsche Exec at the 2010 Beijing Auto Show.

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U.S. Navy Goes All Supersonic on Camelina Biofuel with “Green Hornet” Jet

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:37 AM PDT

The US Navy Green Hornet fighter jet hit supersonic speeds on an Earth Day test flight using a 50-50 camelina biofuel blend

If a biofuel refined from a scruffy little weedlike plant called camelina can hit supersonic speeds in a Navy fighter jet, imagine what it can do in your car. That’s the idea driving Sustainable Oils, which has been working on high performance aviation biofuel from camelina for about five years. Last fall the company started delivering the first of an initial 40,000 gallon consignment for the Navy to test camelina biofuel on a bench mounted Super Hornet F414 engine.

This year on April 22nd, the U.S. Navy put an F/A-18 Super Hornet in flight using a 50-50 blend of conventional jet and camelina biofuel. Dubbed the Green Hornet in honor of Earth Day, the aircraft is (according to the Navy) the first to reach supersonic speeds using a 50-50 biofuel blend. The Navy might not claim sole ownership of that mark for long: the U.S. Air Force is also testing camelina biofuel.

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