Category Archives: clean vehicles

Cars of the future – Are we there yet?

Friday, 24 June 2005 16:47
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3_hypercarsWe’ll look at cars of the future (and a few
exotic prototypes of today) – Are We There Yet? Are hybrids part of the
answer to America’s oil predicament and, if so, why aren’t they making more of
them? And what about hydrogen – are we two, or twenty, years away from a fuel
cell future? We’ll pose these questions, and more, to a panel of clean car technology
experts this weekend on EcoTalk including:
3_pac_car_2_3Chris Onder with the ETH Pac Car2 project

Listen (11 min)

3_hy_light_4_1Philipp Dietrich with the Michelin Hy-Light 2 litre car,
Listen (6 min)

Daniel Sperling of UC Davis Listen (19 min)


LISTEN to the whole program (37 min)

Greener cars in Canada

Sunday, 03 April 2005 21:57
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A_singer_climate_1The Canadian government,
apparently lightyears ahead of US, has succeeded in getting automakers
to voluntarily reduce their vehicles greenhouse gas emissions up to
nearly 6 milion tons by 2010. We’ll get reaction and analysis on how
the historic agreement will impact the way cars are made for the rest
of us from Sierra Club’s Dan Becker.    Listen
The cartoon is by Andy Singer.

Greener cars in Canada and green carpets

Sunday, 03 April 2005 13:21
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A_singer_climateA_ray_andersonThe Canadian government,
apparently lightyears ahead of US, has succeeded in getting automakers
to voluntarily reduce their vehicles greenhouse gas emissions up to
nearly 6 milion tons by 2010. We’ll get reaction and analysis on how
the historic agreement will impact the way cars are made for the rest
of us from Sierra Club’s Dan Becker. Also, a chat with Eco- evangelist
Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Carpets. We’ll hear how he went from
"plunderer of the earth" to being voted "the greenest CEO in America".    Listen
The cartoon is by Andy Singer.

GM keeps crushing the EV1s

Monday, 21 March 2005 14:12
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Ev1_crushed_1_3Chelsea Sexton tells
how GM has requested police protection to been rush the EV1s they still
had in Burbank and move them to Arizona to crush them as fast as
possible. Feel free to post your comment on GM’s blog.
Listen  (12 min)

A deceptive ad campaign by the Auto Alliance

Monday, 21 March 2005 14:06
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A_automakeradresponse2David Friedman, Research Director for the Clean Vehicles Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why they are protesting a new ad campaign by the Auto Alliance (a trade group of 9 manufacturers) that claims that "autos manufactured today are virtually emission free". Meanwhile the manufacturers have filed a lawsuit to prevent California to promote stricter pollution standards.
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