Comments on: GM's CEO Rick Wagoner Announces Provoq & Eco Vehicle Plan

By: Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief « Clean Tech News

Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief « Clean Tech News — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:21 +0000

[...] On Innovation: At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Wagoner delivered the first keynote from a car maker at CES in 41 years. He started with the basics: The auto industry can no longer rely almost exclusively on oil to supply the world’s future automotive energy requirements. [...]

By: Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief

Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:34:01 +0000

By: Web

Web — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:55:56 +0000

Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

By: CES Green Gadget Wrap Up « Earth2Tech

CES Green Gadget Wrap Up « Earth2Tech — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:32:42 +0000

[...] some interesting new and greener gizmos, like low-power HDTVs. And an usually large number of automakers were present this year, pushing their new energy-efficient vehicles. Below is a rundown of the greenest gadgets [...]

By: Ethanol Startup Coskata Launches, Backed By General Motors And Khosla « Earth2Tech

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:52:37 +0000

[...] and will also provide some of its carbon-based waste, like old tires, as a feedstock for Coskata. GM is investing more into ethanol-enabled cars and says it has more than 2.5 million flex-fuel vehicles in the U.S, and plans to add flex-fuel offerings to [...]

By: Dr. No

Dr. No — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:23:35 +0000

They still need to keep the Hydrogen pipe dream alive... If they would kill it Bush would really look like an idiot... ehm, I guess he does anyway.

But I like the natural gas idea. It is though a number of years younger than hydrogen (also from Europe), so we may need to wait another few weeks until that will be touted as the next best thing.

Seriously, ethanol, natural gas, diesel and hydrogen face all the same 'lack of infrastructure' problems.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:01:51 +0000

And the hydrogen comes from where, exactly?

Reforming natural gas? What happens to the CO2 released from that process?

Here's a wild idea; how about fueling cars WITH natural gas? Later, they can be fueled with biomethane (like what comes from landfills) no expensive and problematic fuel cells needed.