Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Gas 2.0

Gas 2.0

In Emissions Battle, Automakers Pitted Against Miners, Farmers, Timber, and a Host of Politicians

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:38 AM PDT

The road to a national unified program to regulate fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for light duty automobiles in the U.S. was a long one. It started years ago, with automakers pitted against the U.S. government, California and a dozen or so other states in a battle to avoid having to deal with the fractious and discordant set of emissions and fuel economy regulations that were beginning to spring up all over the U.S.

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Tesla Making (Some) Money by Selling Electric Car Credits to Honda

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:01 PM PDT

We all know Tesla Motors has grand plans to eventually be the next great U.S. automaker and sell EVs made for all walks of life, but right now it is stuck building a $100,000 plug-in toy for the rich — the Roadster.

Don’t get me wrong, Tesla deserves beau coup credit for making a business case that there is demand for EVs. In fact, at last year’s LA Auto Show, GM’s Bob Lutz came right out and said that Tesla gave GM “major impetus” and went on to say that he is “thankful to Tesla for furnishing the proof that was needed for those of us who championed the Volt within GM that other people believed in lithium-ion technology as well."

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German Auto Club Finds That CNG Fiat Panda is Most Economical Car on European Market

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT

The German equivalent of AAA — Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club, or ADAC — just finished an exhaustive test of almost all cars available for sale in Europe (241 to be exact) in real-world conditions to answer one question: which car can travel the farthest on €30 (~$36 US) worth of cash?

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