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Electric Cars Not Yet Free of CO2 Emissions

2009-02-20T21:50:00.000-05:00

Electric cars emit gases indirectly if they use widely available power from fossil fuel electric plants which burn coal, natural gas and petroleum and release greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide.

A comparison of electric cars from manufacturers Tesla and Mini - using data about electricity from coal powered electric plants in the U.S. - shows that they would effectively emit more carbon dioxide than hybrid cars from Honda and Toyota over a travel distance of 100 miles.

The carbon dioxide emissions were derived from the electric vehicles' respective battery capacities and estimated full charge driving distances as well as fuel powered cars' current government miles per gallon ratings.

In a 100 mile drive, an all-electric Tesla Roadster would require an average of 21.72 kilowatt hours of energy, the equivalent of having using a medium-sized air conditioning unit operating for 21 hours.

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Oil Conscious

2009-01-22T18:33:00.000-05:00

With the price of gasoline now gathering back to a healthy and more affordable price, will our thoughts on being more fuel efficient go with the wind. Will we stop caring about being oil independent, purchasing hybrid cars, or even stop thinking about our precious environment. We as a nation have to stop and think, do we keep spending billions of dollars on petro which in turn the majority of that money goes in to the hands of countries which aid terrorist regimes, or do we become energy conscious and rid ourselves of these hate spewing leaders like Ahmedijinad and Hugo Chavez. Lets wake up America.link

Toyota to Offer Certified Used Hybrids

2009-01-22T18:14:00.000-05:00

Toyota will become the first automaker to offer certified used hybrid vehicles under a program announced yesterday.

Though certified used cars have been a reliable choice for millions of Americans seeking an inexpensive way to get into a car under warranty, hybrids have always been excluded from the programs. Used hybrid buyers were on their own, without the backing of a manufacturer's warranty.

Toyota's program, according to Autoblog, will not cover hybrids under the same warranty program as non-hybrid cars, but instead will "reside alongside the automaker's standard certified pre-owned program." Certified used Toyota hybrid "will have passed a thorough examination with 174 individual points, 14 of which are hybrid-specific. Assuming a hybrid were to pass the inspection, it is then covered under a warranty that includes seven-year/100,000-mile limited powertrain coverage," and seven years worth of roadside assistance.

The car's batteries, however, will not be covered under that warranty. Instead, Kicking Tires explains, "Toyota hybrid batteries come with an eight-year/100,000-mile warranty," beginning with the initial purchase of the vehicle. That warranty will be now transferred along with the car -- so the battery will be covered until the car itself has been on the road for eight years or 100,000 miles.

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Fisker’s California Dreaming

2009-01-14T22:45:00.000-05:00

By LAWRENCE ULRICH
Published: January 12, 2009

IS IT REAL? Henrik Fisker, the chief executive, said it is. The Karma S concept – or “Sunset” -- is a plug-in hybrid two-door, hardtop convertible. It’s an offshoot of the $87,900 Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid that’s scheduled to begin deliveries later this year.

WHAT THEY SAID The Cailfornia-based company founded by Fisker – the designer of such beauties as the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin Vantage – has opened an engineering center in Pontiac, Mich., to help bring the Karma and Sunset to market. Both cars will be assembled by Valmet in Finland in a plant that built the Porsche Cayman and Boxster.

WHAT THEY DIDN’T SAY Whether the company can really, truly find anything close to 15,000 buyers a year for exotic cars with a largely unknown name and unproven technology. Yet Fisker said the company has 1,300 preorders for the Karma, with 22 United States dealers lined up and 18 more in the wings. “With this car, you’re changing what luxury is, projecting a new image of who you are and what you stand for,” Mr. Fisker said.

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World automakers' global race to get green on display

2009-01-12T13:40:00.000-05:00

Daniel Howes

Beneath the gloom weighing on the Detroit auto show, there's a global race under way and it's powered by electricity.

Today, China's BYD Auto Co. Ltd will formally unveil two gas-electric hybrids as well as its lithium iron-powered E6 electric car, which the five-year-old automaker from Shenzhen expects to make available in the finicky U.S. market within two years. How and through what distribution channel remains to be seen.

"We think electric cars are a good choice to enter the U.S.," BYD Chairman Wang Chuan-fu told me Sunday through an interpreter, "... and there will be less competition."

I wouldn't be so sure. To walk the carpet of a noticeably subdued (and more spacious) North American International Auto Show is to see a global industry opening a new competitive front as it grapples with its present and future in more profound ways than at any time in a generation. Yet if there's one word you'd be hard pressed to hear anywhere, least of all among General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., it's "surrender."
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Cities give 'green' light on parking perks for hybrid drivers

2009-01-05T18:51:00.000-05:00

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
Many hybrid car owners, who often get tax credits and special use of HOV lanes, are getting another perk: parking privileges.
An increasing number of offices, hotels and others are giving drivers of hybrids free or reduced-cost parking or reserved spots closer to entrances, similar to those for the disabled or for pregnant women. They're following at least a dozen cities, which introduced such perks in 2004.

"It really encourages people to buy hybrids," says Maureen Lacey, of Boston University Medical Campus' parking office. She says the medical center's preferential first-floor parking for hybrids, begun in 2007, was so popular that in October it doubled to 100 the number of available spaces.

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How Hybrid Cars Can Solve The Energy Crisis

2008-12-16T20:24:00.000-05:00

We have worked for many years building a worldwide infrastructure to recycle bottles, cans, newspapers, cars - almost anything - except energy. If the very existence of our society rests on energy, why do we make no effort to recycle it? Hybrids are, in fact, the only drive system that allows the kinetic energy of motion to be recycled for future reuse.

How does this work, and why is it so important? As basic physics tells us, energy is required to get a vehicle moving. In conventional vehicles, that energy comes from petroleum, which is converted into kinetic energy by a combustion engine. However, in order for the vehicle to stop, it must then dump this kinetic energy as waste heat generated by the brakes - an extravagant process that repeats itself over and over countless times, day in, day out. And this waste of energy is acceptable?

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State politicians pair Earth-friendly legislation with hybrid cars

2007-01-21T11:28:00.000-05:00

January 21, 2007

SACRAMENTO (AP) — Nearly half the state Assembly is switching to hybrids as their choice for state-leased vehicles, a marked change from the gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and luxury sedans that have long been favored by lawmakers.

Thirty-nine of the 80 Assembly members now are driving hybrids, up from 27 last year. Of the 40 senators, 13 opted for hybrids, three more than last year.

State lawmakers choose their official vehicles, which are subsidized by taxpayers.

Legislators had been criticized for voting for clean air and greenhouse gas laws while driving higher-polluting vehicles.

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, D-Los Angeles, for instance, was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer last year as he pushed passage of AB32, the landmark law to fight global warming. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has two Hummers converted to use alternative fuels, is seeking to tighten tailpipe emissions again this year.

"I do believe in the notion that you have to practice what you preach. In my case, the alternative is here," said Nuñez, who now squires a new Toyota Highlander Hybrid.

Being green isn't cheap, however. The Assembly doubled the extra allowance for hybrids to $6,000 to offset the higher price of those vehicles, which Nuñez suspects encouraged more lawmakers to make the switch.

Bush set to give ethanol industry its biggest boost yet

2007-01-22T17:47:00.000-05:00

WASHINGTON: After three decades of surviving mostly on tax subsidies, the ethanol industry is poised on Tuesday to get its biggest endorsement yet as a potential homegrown alternative to gasoline.

In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush is expected to call for a huge increase in the amount of ethanol that refiners mix with gasoline, perhaps to as much as 60 billion gallons, or 227 million liters, annually by 2030 — an amount equal to more than 40 percent of the country's current gasoline consumption.

For an industry once dominated by a single powerful producer, Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol has come a long way, joining the oil industry and producers of major agricultural commodities as an entrenched political force in Washington.

But with dozens of new ethanol plants designed to turn corn into fuel coming online this year, the ethanol lobby is facing a critical point. The political reality is that corn's days as the chief crop for making the fuel are numbered.

Corn-based ethanol can reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. But it does little if anything to improve energy efficiency, and the lobby's mounting concern is that relying on corn is leading to collateral damage in other parts of the agricultural economy and threatening the country's status as the world's leading corn exporter. The big increase in the works could even mean that consumers would end up paying more at the supermarket.story continued

Coolest High-Tech Cars 2007

2007-01-23T17:52:00.000-05:00

Dan Lienert, 01.22.07, 12:01 AM ET
Today, virtually all autos are well built and come with lots of sophisticated features and options.

All good, right? Wrong.

Items once reserved for luxury cars, such as navigation systems and heated seats, are now appearing on such comparatively modest vehicles as Volkswagens and Chevrolets.

This presents a problem for luxury-car manufacturers: How can they make their vehicles stand out when buyers expect even entry-level cars to come loaded with desirable options?

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Getting hydrogen cars to live up to their hype

2007-01-25T21:47:00.000-05:00

By Sholnn Freeman
The Ford Edge gliding along the George Washington Memorial Parkway doesn't have spinning rims or a booming sound system. The bling in this SUV is the technology. The vehicle runs almost silently. It needs no gas and releases no polluting exhaust.

The HySeries Edge, which is to be unveiled at the Washington Auto Show today, is a plug-in hybrid with an electric drive powered by a battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. Its arrival intensifies the competition to manufacture a mass-market electric hybrid that reduces reliance on gasoline and curbs the emission of greenhouse gases.

But the futuristic Edge vehicle is Ford's only one, and it cost $2 million to build. To get a car like this into the showroom for sale to the public will require the automotive and energy industries to leap high technological hurdles. The infrastructure to deliver alternative fuels such as hydrogen is in its infancy, and engineers are puzzling over how to mass-produce a lightweight, inexpensive and safe electric battery.

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Good news - and bad - on electric cars

2007-02-04T10:41:00.000-05:00

By Bruce V. Bigelow
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

After buying a 2007 Honda Civic hybrid-electric car in November, Kara Morales was a little disappointed. Her dark-gray sedan, which is “beautiful” and has “tons of gadgets,” has been getting only about 38 miles to the gallon.

“We were getting close to that with our old Civic,” said Morales, who teaches Spanish to seventh-and eighth-graders in the Poway school district.

But Morales had another reason to buy the new car. So when she called tax experts who fielded calls Jan. 27 on a hotline sponsored by The San Diego Union-Tribune, her big question was, “How do I claim the tax credit for a hybrid vehicle?”

Good question.

Mark Adler, the certified public accountant who answered her call, at first seemed the ideal person to answer the question. He loves electric cars and even owns a Bradley GT, an all-electric sports car with gull-wing doors.

When gasoline prices hit $3 a gallon in April, people began looking more seriously at switching to hybrid-electric vehicles, Adler said.

HEVs are powered primarily by a conventional internal-combustion engine. But they also convert energy normally wasted during coasting and braking into electricity, which is stored in batteries until needed by the electric motor.

HEVs use battery power at low speeds, then switch to the gasoline engine at higher speeds. The system is more fuel-efficient, so that hybrid models can get improved gas mileage.

Sometimes, though, the difference is marginal.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Web site, www.fueleconomy.gov, shows that a conventional Honda Civic gets between 30 and 40 miles per gallon.

The same site shows fuel economy for the Honda Civic hybrid, based on government estimates, at about 50 mpg. But fueleconomy.gov also notes that average users report the number based on actual driving is closer to 43 mpg.

Nevertheless, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers consumers a great incentive to buy a hybrid by providing a tax credit for HEVs bought and placed into service after Jan. 1, 2006.

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Porsche Rails at Emissions Caps That Favor Ghosn's Smaller Cars

2007-02-07T18:39:00.000-05:00

By Alan Katz and Jeremy van Loon

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Porsche AG is under threat from the drive to combat global warming, Chief Executive Officer Wendelin Wiedeking says.

Wiedeking has joined with other German luxury-car makers to protest a mandatory European Union cap on carbon-dioxide emissions that he says favors companies such as Renault SA and Fiat SpA that produce smaller vehicles.

``This is a business war in Europe,'' Wiedeking, 54, told shareholders at Stuttgart's Porsche Arena on Jan. 26. ``It's the French and Italians up against the Germans.''

The European Commission is proposing binding limits because carmakers risk missing voluntary targets. The commission plans to outline a preliminary proposal tomorrow in Brussels. Carlos Ghosn of France's Renault says it's time the industry did more to protect the environment. Renault, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Turin, Italy-based Fiat each have several models with limited emissions.

Cars account for more than a 10th of the EU's emissions of CO2, the main gas blamed for global warming.

``Jobs are not lost when you proactively embrace change, but if you reactively resist it,'' said Johannes Laitenberger, the spokesman for Commission President Jose Barroso. The goal is to limit climate change while preserving competitiveness, he said.

``The key to meeting both objectives is to be ahead of the game, not sticking our heads in the sand, not standing still,'' Laitenberger told reporters in Brussels on Jan. 29.

120 Grams

Passenger cars in the EU emit an average 161 grams of CO2 a kilometer (9.14 ounces a mile), according to the EU.

The European industry's non-binding goal is to reduce emissions to 140 grams in 2008. EU regulators have discussed a mandatory cap of 120 grams a kilometer in 2012, said Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas. Porsche's least-emitting vehicles are versions of the Boxster and Cayman sports cars, which each produce 222 grams of CO2 per kilometer.

It will cost carmakers an average 2,532 euros ($3,297) a vehicle to meet both targets, according to an October 2006 report for the commission. The cost to Porsche may average 4,650 euros a car, said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, head of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Gelsenkirchen near Dusseldorf in Germany. He was once an executive at the company.

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Honda hydrogen fuel cell vehicle

2007-02-07T18:57:00.000-05:00

Honda is proud to introduce the newest Honda fuel-cell car, the FCX Concept, a precursor to the production car coming in 2008. This amazing vehicle drives completely clean—emitting nothing into the air but water vapor. And the energy source for this next-generation automobile is…hydrogen. A clean, domestic fuel that significantly cuts carbon emissions. Yet unlike early fuel-cell prototypes, the FCX Concept features a well-equipped, full-sized cabin, complete with the latest amenities. There will be lots more to learn about fuel-cell technology in the near future as the new FCX Concept evolves into a production vehicle. Because the future is closer than you think.check out the future

Bush urges Congress to back energy initiatives

2007-02-11T11:24:00.000-05:00

ASSOCIATED PRESS
2/11/2007

WASHINGTON - President Bush asked Congress to help solve "one of the great challenges facing our generation" by approving proposals that he says will cut U.S. gasoline consumption by up to 20 percent over 10 years.
"Every member of Congress who cares about strengthening our economy, protecting our national security and confronting climate change should support the energy initiatives I have set out," the president said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "We can leave behind a cleaner and better world for our children and grandchildren."

Bush's energy proposals, outlined in his State of the Union address last month, include ramping up the production of alternative fuels such as ethanol made from new, noncorn feedstocks.

The president wants to require the use of 35 billion gallons a year of ethanol and other alternative fuels, such as soybean-based biodiesel, by 2017, a fivefold increase over current requirements. The ethanol would be in gasoline blends of 10 percent to 85 percent.

The call for sharp increases in ethanol use will get bipartisan support in Congress.

But production of ethanol from corn is expected to fall far short of the target. So Bush envisions a major speedup of research into production of "cellulosic" ethanol made from wood chips, switchgrass and other feedstocks.

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Obama's Energy Policies At A Glance

2008-11-06T22:44:00.000-05:00

Energy was a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign after high gasoline prices added to consumer woes this year and candidates pledged to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Here is a look at the energy plan of President-elect Barack Obama.

ENERGY RESEARCH

Obama wants to invest $150 billion over 10 years on low-carbon energy sources that will help create 5 million jobs, double research and development spending on biomass, solar and wind resources; accelerate commercialization of plug-in hybrid cars, invest in low-emission coal plants.

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Panasonic eyes Sanyo; bets on solar power, hybrid cars

2008-11-04T14:59:00.000-05:00

By Kiyoshi Takenaka

TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp, the world's top plasma TV maker, is betting on a green future of solar power and hybrid cars as it negotiates a price for rival Sanyo Electric Co that analysts say could be up to $8.7 billion.

A key driver for Panasonic is Sanyo's auto batteries business that powers increasingly popular hybrid and electric vehicles, but it would also secure a foothold in the solar cell industry, another with strong growth potential amid concern about global climate change.

Sanyo is the world's seventh-largest solar cell maker and competes with bigger rivals such as Germany's Q-Cells.

"This isn't a bad combination," said Mizuho Investors Securities analyst Nobuo Kurahashi. "Sony doesn't make auto batteries, at least not yet. When hybrid and electric vehicle demand takes off, Panasonic and Sanyo will be far ahead of everyone else."

Panasonic runs a car battery venture with Toyota Motor Corp, while Sanyo offers nickel metal hydride batteries to Ford Motor Co and Honda Motor Co Ltd and develops lithium-ion batteries for cars with Volkswagen AG.

Panasonic has around $10 billion in cash and cash equivalent, some of which could be used to build a large-scale solar plant, which would be needed to make cost competitive solar panels.

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Oregon governor outlines climate change agenda

2008-10-28T19:45:00.000-04:00

By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER – 13 hours ago

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's governor unwrapped an ambitious 2009 legislative climate change package with proposals for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for homes and buildings by 2030, with benchmarks to be sure the goal is reached.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski also wants to replace the $1,500 tax credit on hybrid vehicles with a $5,000 credit on all-electric cars and to fund energy efficiency for 800 low-income homes a year.

Oregon already is the highest per-capita user of hybrid cars in the nation, he said Monday, and the tax credit could be better used on promoting all-electric vehicles.

Kulongoski said Oregon can be an important point of entry for such cars and that he will make that point on a trip to China and Japan next month.

He said his plan to cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions by utilities and industries in Oregon would go into effect in 2012 to allow time to make sure it is fair and workable.

While Kulongoski almost certainly will have a Democratic House and Senate likely to lean toward his goals, one leading Republican on Monday urged caution, though he commended some aspects of the climate change agenda.

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Consumer Reports: Hybrids Are Very Reliable

2008-10-24T19:11:00.000-04:00

Hybrid cars outscored other vehicle segments for reliability, according to the Consumer Reports Annual Car Reliability Survey, released on Thursday. Nine hybrid models were included in the survey of 1.4 million subscribers of Consumer Report. All the hybrids earned above-average predicted-reliability ratings.

Some consumers have expressed concerns about reliability of hybrid batteries and other components. "We haven't actually seen that," said David Champion, senior director of Consumer Reports' Auto Test Division. "They all get better reliability than their regular counterparts. They seem to be very reliable."

Consumer Reports also found that non-hybrid gas-sippers such as the Honda Fit, Scion xD, Smart ForTwo, and Toyota Yaris had few problems. Ford scored well for domestic car companies, but the top 10 most-reliable brands sold in America are all owned by Asian automakers.

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China seen as potential electric car hub

2008-10-07T19:41:00.000-04:00

By Braden Reddall

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of Johnson Controls Inc's battery unit believes China could adopt electric cars faster than elsewhere because of its size and comparative lack of reliance on gasoline for transport.

Alex Molinaroli, president of the Power Solutions unit, said China's government would likely lead the way through policy to provide vehicles to the many among the country's 1.3 billion people who now rely on bicycles and scooters.

"The next step up from that is going to be some sort of vehicle, (but) it may not be a vehicle that would be acceptable in both Western Europe and the U.S.," Molinaroli told the Reuters Global Environment Summit on Tuesday.

"They can't go everywhere on a bicycle, and they all can't afford a $20,000 to $30,000 vehicle, but they have to move people around."

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One Nation

2008-09-22T22:57:00.002-04:00

Written by Anthony Mangano

I have yet to hear of any of the candidates running for president speak about hybrid cars. Sure maybe considering the global market meltdown is a very serious situation, but if all those mortgage brokers were not trying to scheme every tom ,dick and harry out of there life savings maybe we wouldnt be in this problem. Maybe we as a people should put our lifes and health before greed , then maybe then we will become again the nation everyone looked up to and thought so highly of. Its embarassing when you have people in government bickering and putting down there president. Its expected of the media of course because they are nothing but a bunch of liberals anyway. Yes maybe you can blame the president of which our current state is , but like Kennedy once said "ask not what your country can do for you ,but what you can do for your country. Wake up AMERICA.

Can green cars make it in Russia?

2008-09-22T22:55:00.000-04:00

September 21, 2008 Posted by: Paul Lucas

From the USA to the UK, from Israel to India, the world appears to be embracing the green car concept. However, there is one country that is yet to catch green fever - Russia.

The car market in Russia is booming but hybrid cars are certainly not all the rage with few on sale. Now however, car manufacturers are taking a new approach - by appealing to those who like to drive cutting edge technology and who like to set the trends.

The range of hybrid vehicles offered by Lexus is one of the few to enjoy sales success in the country and now Toyota and Honda are considering bringing their most popular models to dealerships next year.

The emphasis is not so much on their environmental qualities, however, as it is on offering something new and different to the young, well-off crowd. As hybrid cars use a rechargeable electric battery in addition to the conventional petroleum engine, the technology should hold appeal.

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GM thinks beyond the Volt

2008-09-18T19:51:00.000-04:00

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com senior writer
DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- The applause hasn't died down for the new Chevrolet Volt, but General Motors is already planning where the technology for this new electric car can go next.

The Volt, which made its official debut Tuesday, is based on what GM calls the "E-Flex platform." This new type of vehicle uses high-capacity lithium-ion batteries and will be able to go up to 40 miles on a full charge. If a driver wants to go farther, the car's small gasoline engine will generate more electricity, allowing trips of over 300 miles.

But that technology doesn't have to stop with the Volt, according to said Tony Posawatz, vehicle line director for the E-Flex program. Different body styles - wagons or small cars, for instance - and versions styled for different brands are under consideration for a future, improved E-Flex use.

"These are some of the alternatives that are being reviewed, even as we speak, relative to the future beyond Volt," Posawatz said in an interview with CNNMoney.com after the Volt's official unveiling in Detroit Tuesday.

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Biofuel musses up electric car fest

2008-09-08T20:27:00.000-04:00

By Seattle Times staff

Rami Grunbaum, deputy business editor, and Seattle Times Business staff

At a Cascadia Center conference last week on the future of transportation titled "Beyond Oil," the star was the electric car.

Electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were lined up outside the Microsoft Executive Conference Center during the two-day conference: plug-in Priuses, converted SUVs, even a plug-in yellow school bus.

True believers on grid-powered vehicles happily exchanged factoids inside. In such a crowd, Rob Elam, founder of Propel Biofuels, stuck out like a sore thumb.

Elam's Seattle company is in the down-and-dirty business of distributing biodiesel, an alternative fuel made mostly out of vegetable oil that can be used in almost any standard diesel engine.

Biofuels, now based mostly out of soy and corn, have been criticized for not being cost-efficient — and some scientists have even cast doubt on their environmental benefits.

Others point out that biofuels are merely a halfway measure on the way to electric cars. That didn't keep Elam from telling fans of electric vehicles that biofuels are the right thing to adopt, right now.

In the U.S., there are about 14 million diesel vehicles and 9 million flex-fuel vehicles that can run on biodiesel and ethanol, Elam told the audience.

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Big Green Apple: Mayor says answer to energy needs is blowin' in wind

2008-08-20T21:28:00.000-04:00

BY ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

LAS VEGAS - Windmills atop the Brooklyn Bridge. Green power in Fresh Kills. The
Statue of Liberty's torch powered by an ocean windfarm.

That's the vision for a green revolution Mayor Bloomberg laid out in a speech at the National Clean Energy Summit on Tuesday night.

"Perhaps companies will want to put wind turbines atop bridges and skyscrapers, or use the enormous potential of powerful off-shore winds miles out off the Atlantic Coast, where turbines could generate roughly twice the energy," Bloomberg told the summit.

"We don't generate a lot of electricity in New York City," he said. "But we can work on using less. And in New York, we're determined to do what no other city has ever attempted, and that is to keep our energy usage at or near its current level even as our population grows.
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