Tag Archives: Green

A Better Place

I've been meaning to write something about this for a while since I read about it in Wired.  Better Place is a company formed by ex-SAP product chief Shai Agassi, it's mission is to end the worlds dependence on fossil fuels for transport.  No small objectives there then.  To be honest I'd never heard of [...] Read More…

Fisker Karma

I was just looking through some car news and noticed this, the Fisker Karma: It's a rather clever hybrid sports car, it even has solar panels in the roof to boost the batteries.  But... it is just me or does the front look a little like the Joker? Fortunately the rest of the car looks [...] Read More…

Green fuels again

Just following on from my lost post, I've just watched an interesting piece on Channel 4 news about fuel prices and green taxes. In the piece, one of the talking heads said something like "road pricing is far fairer [than fuel duty] by pricing on distance travelled".  I can't help thinking that this way of [...] Read More…

Lotus and fuels for the future

Being a fan of all things Lotus, I've been following news about their tri-fuel Exige 270E technology demo with some interest.  It's essentially a standard Exige that has been modified to run on either Petrol, Ethanol or Methanol - or any combination of the three.  Sensors tell the ECU what fuel is being used and [...] Read More…