Archive for 'Cars'

To get the best gas mileage out of that ‘64 Caddy of yours, you’ll need to keep your tires properly inflated. This digital tire gauge with LCD display and built-in solar panel will help you monitor the situation. Psi, Bar, Kpa, and Kg/cm2 pressure settings can be checked. You can even measure the depth [...]

Do you have a backseat (or front seat) driver who harps on your lead-footed, gas guzzling driving behavior? Well here’s a gadget that will do the harping with a lot more accuracy and much less yammering. The Digital Fuel Mizer gives you an audio and visual alert when you accelerate or brake inefficiently. [...]

Zap makes a bunch of electric vehicles but the futuristic 3-wheeled electric sports car, the Alias, possesses some real sizzle. Targeted for a 2009 release, the front wheel drive, two-seater Alias will go 0 to 60 in 7.7 seconds, and will have a top speed of 120mph, a range of 100 miles, 321 water-cooled horsepower [...]

I hesitate to add a gadget, especially a car gadget, to the glut of semi-useful stuff clogging up glove compartments and office drawers, but this one just might save you a ticket, or even an accident. If you’ve ever had to avoid a weaving cellphone yacker, you know that hands-free is a [...]

Daryl’s latest eco escapade finds her as a used car dealer — for a 100% fully sustainably-fueled car, of course. Her hot wheels come with your own, easy to use, bio-diesel pumping station, too.
Get the inside scoop on her love blog Thursday, December 20, when she announces all the details of the sale.
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Ever feel guilty about driving your car around, knowing that you’re contributing to global warming? Well, for you U.K. drivers, Ibuyeco, a carbon neutral car insurance company, can help you offset your carbon emissions. Ibuyeco invests the money they receive from their clients, into renewable energy and energy sustainable projects, thereby offsetting CO2 emissions [...]

The Chevrolet Tahoe, an eight-passenger SUV from GM, likely surprised some attendees of the Los Angeles Auto Show last week, where it was awarded 2008 ‘Green Car of the Year’.
Expected to hit the market in early ‘08, the Tahoe (of the same model year) will be the first model from GM using a hybrid system [...]

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Looking for a stylish, hip, new way to get around town? Then get to your local Honda dealer! The 2008 Civic Hybrid is bound to be the hot new car, especially for students looking to spend less on gas while being environmentally friendly, with the Advanced Technology Partial-Zero-Emission [...]

So the Prius is looking a little dingy and could use a little TLC… well, here’s a car grooming product that will help you save water, keep your image buffed and help you avoid those expensive pollution monsters, the carwash.
Spongetech has a one-step sponge washing system that eliminates the need for a bucket of sudsy [...]

No wheels to get to that Smith College mixer? Maybe you should rent a hybrid.
Whether you’re wheel-less or not, there’s a new option to consider when packing up for school. Zipcar, the world’s largest car-sharing service, is bringing its program to 15 additional universities this season, bumping up the count of Zipcar-available campuses to [...]

Saw this new combustion technology vehicle over at hybridcars.com. Seems that GM has recently created a couple of prototypes (Saturn Aura and Opel Vectra) powered by its new HCCI, or ‘homogeneous, compression ignition engine”, which has characteristics of both a diesel and conventional gasoline engine.
HCCI delivers the efficiency of a diesel engine, but without generating [...]

Buy a Bug and Volkswagen will foot the bill for one year’s worth of carbon offsets thanks to a new partnership with carbonfund.org. In fact, buy any VW vehicle from now until January 2, 2008 and you’ll reap the benefit, with contributions going toward the reforestation of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (aka the VW [...]

Yes, we all want to keep our hybrids, bio-diesels and fuel-efficient rides sparklin’, but taking a hose to the driveway can cost at-home washers up to 100 gallons of water. On top of that, do-it-yourselfers are likely leaking the contaminated suds into neighborhood runoff drains. Yikes.
Keep things clean and green by switching to a waterless, [...]

The American ‘green car’ market is heating up. Those in search of greener car buying options need the info, research and choices to make an educated buying decision, and make it quick. Earthcars.com has been created to provide today’s car buyers with the tools they need to learn, browse, compare and buy more [...]

Perhaps being labeled a “Climate Pig” by Greenpeace has motivated Porsche to develop a hybrid or, more likely, the marketing folks at the German automaker see a new market segment and some bucks to be made with a little greenwashing. It is estimated the Cayenne hybrid will get about 24mpg (current model gets approx. [...]