50 years of making hydrogen cars, and still no one cares
Rad, right? Yup, until you realize that for all that time and money, the automaker has made effectively zero progress getting humanity to ditch fossil fuels for hydrogen.
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For Exxon, hybrid car technology was another road not taken
“The future of the full-sized car was questionable—until now,” according to a glossy brochure Exxon printed for the pitch. Exxon said its technology “is not in developmental stages; it is ready now. The prototype has been engineered, tested, driven, proven.”
The world’s first hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle turns 50 this month
General Motors understandably made a big deal about the Chevy Camaro turning 50 this year. But the company has another important vehicle celebrating its 50th, one that introduced technologies that have only hit the streets in this millennium.
Climate change law has reshaped California in 10 years
To see California’s largest source of greenhouse gases in action — and glimpse a possible solution — look no farther than the Nimitz Freeway on a weekday morning.
Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4
The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after being pushed past a key threshold Wednesday by a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas.
The bright future of high-tech cars
Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, set the tone for last week’s Advanced Clean Cars Symposium when she emphasized the “need to use every tool that is available” to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars.
In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ oil and water don’t make a good mix
The environmental implications of the oil spill were so enormous at the time that it was easy to forget that 11 men died on the rig before it went down. “Deepwater Horizon” does the service of remembering them while implicating the greed and carelessness that put them in harm’s way.
India just ratified the Paris climate deal — bringing it extremely close to taking effect
The Paris climate agreement, the world’s strongest effort yet to try to curb the pace of climate change, sped even closer toward becoming active as India, the planet’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, formally joined the accord Sunday.
Growth Energy: Ethanol works; ask NASCAR
There was so much misinformation in the Sept. 25 commentary “The Renewable Fuel Standard Failure,” written by a former chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute, I don’t even know where to begin.
Study: Low-emissions vehicles are less expensive overall
A newly-published study by MIT researchers shows that when operating and maintenance costs are included in a vehicle’s price, autos emitting less carbon are among the market’s least expensive options, on a per-mile basis.
