Archive for July, 2008
FUH2
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 […]
A diesel Cayenne (!), and other green things coming from Porsche
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 […]
Unveiled: 3.7l/100km Fiesta
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 - […]
Tesla Motors in-depth
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 […]
South African Gordon Murray’s T25 City Car (2010)
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 […]
World’s biggest rooftop solar station to be built by GM
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 […]
