Automotive X-Prize: Finals Stage heats up as Edison2 tries to stay cool with ice

Filed under: Green Culture , MPG , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Automotive X-Prize Edison2’s Very Light Car gets packed with ice - Click above for high-res image gallery Today, the only two cars left in the mainstream class of the Automotive X-Prize - both Very Light Cars from Edison2 - will be running 200 miles at the Michigan International Speedway, where it’s supposed to get well above 90 degrees today. Why does the heat matter? Because one of the X-Prize’s rules is that vehicles’ cabin temperature can’t go above 95 degrees

Video: Hay, here’s a great idea how to clean up the BP oil spill

Filed under: Green Culture , USA CW Roberts employees demonstrating hay’s ability to remove oil from water - click above to watch the video The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented man-made environmental disaster and efforts to stop the leak and clean up the spill have been just marginally successful thus far. We found a video floating (get it?) around the internet that shows a pair of men demonstrating a very unique, inexpensive and environmentally friendly way to grab the oil off the surface of the water. Hay, it turns out, isn’t just for horses.

EPA testing green pavement to clean rainwater runoff

Filed under: Etc. Green pavement? What’s so exciting about that

Biodiesel’s water footprint? 14,000 liters per liter of biofuel

We recently heard that, according to one group of researchers at Environmental Science & Technology magazine, corn ethanol has a water cost of 50 gallons per mile . Now, a team working from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has calculated the water cost of ethanol and other biofuels and to make bioelectricity. The results are not pretty

Ready for summer? ECO electric jetski is

Click above and scroll down to watch the video If you think the silence of an electric car on the road is a big surprise (and it is), how paradigm-shifting is an electric jetski?

Chrysler bankruptcy: what happens with the electric car plans? to A123 Systems?

Dodge Circuit EV - Click above for a high-res gallery Pegging down future automobile product plans is hard enough in a normal economy.

British Labour MP: Cars should carry climate health warnings

Way back in 1965, the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act required cigarette manufacturers to place those little blurbs warning smokers of the dangers of using their products. Might a similar label be placed on advertisement from the auto industry? Don’t laugh - if Colin Challen, chair of the all-party climate change group in the UK, gets his wish , just such a thing might happen.

A water wheel to drive an electric car? Fat chance

The dream of perpetual motion never dies, it just gets gobbled up by evil oil companies as they suppress great ideas.

So sayeth Popular Mechanics: HHO systems do not work

We’ve had our share of posts on on-board hydrogen-generating engines over the past few years, and I’m sure there will be many more.

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