Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Ford and BASF have teamed up to develop a sustainable, plant-sourced castor oil-based foam product for the 2012 Ford Focus instrument panel. The new castor oil-based foam is significantly more durable than the previously used material, with a 36% better tensile strength (a measure of the foam’s ability to hold its shape over time and use).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2010
Americans' opinions of the automobile industry have posted a 15-point positive increase after reaching an all-time low last year, and now tilt more positive than negative for the first time in three years, according to a new Gallup poll. Click to enlarge. in Gallup's annual Work and Education Poll.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
The auto industry in principle is not opposed to the introduction of such mid-level blends (i.e., The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is current considering a request to allow more than the current limit of 10% ethanol in gasoline to increase overall ethanol consumption in the US fuel pool. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).
Teslarati
APRIL 22, 2024
.” The team behind the analysis reached out to members in its 2023 Annual Auto Surveys to let them know how much they paid out of pocket for total maintenance , including oil changes and servicing, as well as for repairs. You can see CR’s rankings below for the most and least expensive vehicles to repair and maintain.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 27, 2019
—and pitted the efforts of the auto industry soundly against those of the oil and gas industry. The possibility of an extension for the $7,500 federal EV tax credit has recently intensified lobbying efforts in Washington D.C.—and So reports the Washington Post.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. A paper presenting the results of the group’s latest year-long study on the lifecycle air emissions and oil displacement benefits of plug-in vehicles was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Electrek
JANUARY 18, 2023
As the auto industry moves to fully electric vehicles, big oil companies are looking to keep their share of the wealth. In the latest news, oil giant Shell is buying out EV charging and media company Volta.
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