As we mentioned a few weeks ago, politicians are talking about raising the CAFE standards and now since Katrina, people are telling their political representatives to DO SOMETHING! May I say, please don't? Toyota's Prius has had a sales increase of 132% this year over last year. Does anyone really think the car companies aren't acutely aware of a building demand for high … [Read more...]
Biodiesel confusion
Biodiesel is still surprising a lot of people. You can tell they're surprised because they use exclamation marks. "Diesel runs on vegetable oil!" or "Man drives truck powered by cooking oil!" Yesterday I saw another article, "You can run biodiesel engines on filtered coconut oil!" over on BoingBoing and it struck me that a lot of confusion exists out there about diesel engines. … [Read more...]
Yamaha FC-me fuel cell motorcycle
Yamaha has a fuel cell motorcycle, the Yamaha FC-me, and is now leasing it to the Shizuoka prefectural government in Japan. They've been testing on public roads since September of last year. Cost is reported to be $942 per month, which is probably about as realistic as what the family in California is paying to lease Honda's hydrogen powered car. Yamaha's goal is greater … [Read more...]
Jacque replacing Hofmann on Kawasaki
Olivier Jacque will replace the injured Alex Hofmann on the Kawasaki for this weekend's MotoGP in Malaysia and also next week in Qatar. Jacque placed second in China on a very wet track and was closing on Rossi continuously. He has raced 3 times so far this year. Hofmann broke his ankle in the Japanese MotoGP last weekend. … [Read more...]
Smart Car soccer?
There's a downside to being small. Of course this could be the beginning of a whole new sport. Is there a spray to clean them off? … [Read more...]
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