Shining a Light on Better Headlamps
Drivers aren't singing the blues so much about high-intensity headlights these days, but a smarter version of them might really light up their driving lives.
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Gentlemen, Start Your Clunkers
A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.
Cash for Clunkers: Invitation to Fraud?
The Germans already have a program for taking gas guzzlers off the road and replacing them with shiny new cars, but there are some bumps in the road.
Reducing the ‘Car’ Part of Carbon
Regulators in car-mad California have made a statement about reducing carbon in the atmosphere, and while its specifics have their critics, expect the rest of the nation to grudgingly follow along.
American Idling: The Ecological Cost of Keeping the Engine Running
The quick, simple act of turning your car off instead of idling whenever possible could play an enormous role in slowing the rate of climate change.
Charging Up The Electric Car Landscape
At a certain point, emergent technologies become part of the kitchen-table dialogue, no longer the domain of wacky…
Electric Cars: Great Promise, Potential Potholes
The promise of electric vehicles is enormous, but so are the challenges standing in the way of large-scale adaptation of this new technology.
Off-roaders Leaving Environmentalists in the Dust
It's a zero-sum game between conservationists and four-wheelers, according to a University of Idaho academic, and one that those who favor the pristine can never win.