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Post a Comment and Help Stop Automaker Greenwashing!
Coverage of the Los Angeles Auto Show online is dominated by a few major blogs who typically fawn over the big automakers' latest muscle cars and ignore the fact that automakers have done nothing to promote better overall fuel economy, lower global warming emissions, or mass produce plug-in hybrid cars.
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! Plug in America !
Elon Musk talks about future models of the Tesla
: News piece on the Tesla Roadste
Ed Begley, Jr. on an all-electric truck
Electric Car by ZAP stands for Zero Air Pollution
If there is one thing that people in 2050 will be laughing out loud at, it is internal combustion engines -- the kind of engines we find now in everything from automobiles to lawn mowers. The reason why they will laugh at them is because they are so very, very sad. Think about how sad they are:
The most glaring problem is the waste. Something like 80% of the fuel that goes into an internal combustion engine comes out as heat rather than motion. 80% of the fuel is completely wasted, in other words.Then there is the pollution - nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, soot, hydrocarbons, etc.
Don't forget the carbon -- something like 5 pounds of carbon is emitted for every gallon of gas consumed.
Then there's the noise.
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Bring back the electric car (LAtimes)
"a study done for the state Energy Commission that found that electric cars -- which use the existing power grid -- reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 68% compared with conventional cars. Hydrogen fuel cell cars -- for which there is no infrastructure -- would achieve only a 54% reduction.
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