Green Headlines - Feb 19-23, 2007
Some interesting green stories from this week.
1) New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series is expecting to become first major series to run on biofuel (E85); 2) Anyone with biofuel vehicles is the USA will likely want a copy of this directory listing over 2200 locations where alt fuels can be purchased; 3) Safeway inc. has launched it’s first biodiesel gas pumps at one of it’s Seattle locations as part of a test campaign; 4) News from Tesla that will likely excite a lot of people - they plan to start mass-producing electric sedans in Albuquerque. These vehicles will be considerably cheaper than their roadster and should be available by 2009; 5) Interesting article about Toyota’s FT-HS, an electric hybrid sport car that can achieve 0-60 in four seconds (similar league as Ferrari F430); 6) Nissan’s new X-TRAIL fuel-cell vehicle is getting put to good use in Japan as a fleet car - the first of it’s kind; 7) You might recall one of our past headlines (from Green News) relating to the ‘Heliotube Solar Concentrator’ - well it looks like this technology has some supporters in the California solar industry; 8] Interesting article discussing the finalists of Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square re-design competition - I was happy to see that all of the competitors have incorporated various ‘green’ features into their design. I’ll definitely be interested to hear who wins.
1) Biofuel soon to power racing cars
2) New Alternative Fuel Directory Features over 2200 E85 and Biodiesel retail locations nationwide.
3) Safeway unveils first biodiesel pump at Seattle station
4) Tesla to build fully electric sedans in Albuquerque
5) Toyota’s electric hybrid promises shock for supercars
6) Nissan X-TRAIL Fuel-Cell Limo
7) Three Solar Partners Will Install Heliotube
Nathan Phillips Square Design Finalists Unveiled
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Written by Bentley on February 23rd, 2007 with
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