Posts Tagged ‘Natural Gas’
Green Tree to join with city to bid on natural gas
Green Tree council unanimously approved a handful of actions Monday night that will affect borough finances.
Some say “No plug, no deal,” but not everyone is gonna buy that
Filed under: Biodiesel , EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , Natural Gas This week, the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers found that plug-in hybrids have to be “affordable” if automakers think that customers will want to buy them. People are interested, U of M says , but cost is paramount to people deciding to make a purchase. Speaking at the Business of Plugging In conference in Detroit this week, Richard Curtin, from the University of Michigan’s Institute of Social Research
Mercedes-Benz launches BlueEfficiency Sprinter van
Filed under: Diesel , MPG , Mercedes Benz , Natural Gas Mercedes-Benz BlueEfficiency Sprinter - click above for high res image gallery Over the past year, Mercedes-Benz has been rolling out high mileage BlueEfficiency versions of several passenger car models and has now expanded the eco-tweaks to their commercial vehicles. Effective immediately, two different Sprinter BlueEfficiency variants are available with different engines. The first is powered by a new 2.2-liter fou
Top Ten “green” cars that met their fate during Cash for Clunkers
Filed under: Ethanol , Flex-Fuel , MPG , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Legislation and Policy , Natural Gas , Green Daily One rule that all clunked cars needed to adhere to was a maximum rating of 18 MPG from the federal government, right? What wasn’t required was that the clunked car be considered dirty. After all, it’s pretty clear that CNG vehicles burn clean , but that didn’t stop 232 of them from meeting their sodium silicate solution-induced death . We looked through the