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Entries from July 2008

FUH2

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Ok, so GreenCars is about 5 years behind the times on this one, but we’ve stumbled across a wonderful site called FUH2.
In short, it’s an entire Web site dedicated to displaying user-submitted images of  people flipping Hummers the bird. In fact it’s become so common now, that the finger is  often referred to as the […]

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Tags: Fun stuff

A diesel Cayenne (!), and other green things coming from Porsche

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

The German sportscar maker Porsche AG is following a rather unorthodox method of cutting the average emissions of its fleet. Where most other producers of large-engines niche vehicles are looking at alternative fuels (like an ethanol powered Koenigsegg) or scaling down engine capacities (like the Ferrari Millechili concept), Porsche is hoping that another manufacturer’s green […]

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Tags: Commentary · Emissions · Fuels and powertrains · News and Info

Unveiled: 3.7l/100km Fiesta

July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Ford’s production-ready Fiesta ECOnetic has  been introduced at the British International Motor Show in London.
Powered by a specially-calibrated, 66 kW 1.6-liter Duratorq TDCi,  the Fiesta ECOnetic offers fuel consumption of 3.7 l/100km and CO2 emissions of 98 g/km. Extra-urban  fuel consumption is 3.2 L/100km. Performance isn’t too bad for such a fuel sipper either - […]

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Tesla Motors in-depth

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The Tesla Roadster is a car that we love to write about here at GreenCars. It’s hi-tech, fast and environmentally friendly - all good things. It’s also the product of a young and dynamic company that’s taken Silicon Valley business practices and applied them to the auto industry. The result makes for a very interesting […]

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South African Gordon Murray’s T25 City Car (2010)

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Most of us motoring buffs know about local boy Gordon Murray making it big in F1 design a few years back. Friend Gordon then left the racing scene to focus on something more .., well … affordable. After starting Gordon Murray Design (GMD) in Surrey, England, his team of 29 set out to revolutionise the […]

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Tags: Manufacturing · Concept Cars · News and Info

World’s biggest rooftop solar station to be built by GM

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

 
The General’s assembly plant in Zargosa, Spain (which produces over 480 000 vehicles per year) will soon be sporting a massive 10MW solar power station on its roof similar to the system pictured above.
GM will not own the solar station, however. It will be installed and run by US firm Clairvoyant Energy and France’s Veolia […]

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Tags: Manufacturing · Emissions