Friday, December 11, 2009

LA 2009: HH2 booth is all about the honeybees and children

Filed under: Hydrogen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, LA Auto Show

HH2 booth at the 2008 LA Auto Show - click above for high-res image gallery
Usually, when we have an audio clip to share, we embed it after the jump or down at the bottom of a post. To make sure that everyone knows exactly what Derek Zupancic, CEO of HydrolectricPower LLC, has to say about his onboard HH2 Hydrogen Generator Clean Air Combustion System, we present him in his own words (you can also download the 6.4 MB Source: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed

January 2010 Golf Digest Cover: Tiger Woods, Obama, and Smart Marketing


Image: Daily Mirror
Tiger Woods has been yanked off primetime TV, but that hasn’t stopped the folks at Golf Digest to run an issue with Woods on the cover. The accompanying article? “10 Tips Obama Can Take from Tiger.”

OK, so it’s not exactly tasteful or relevant, but I think the editors did the right thing by leaving the cover intact. For one, doesn’t it tempt you to pick up a copy of Golf Digest, even if you don’t otherwise read the magazine? TheSource: Business Pundit RSS Feed

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Hyundai tops the list as the most fuel efficient automaker in the U.S.

Filed under: MPG, Hyundai, Green Daily, USA


Quick - name the most fuel efficient car brand in America. Did you say Toyota? Honda? Surely, you're not alone, but incorrect all the same. In fact, the answer is none other than Hyundai, which publicly set out to nab the title just one year ago. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Hyundai cars averaged 30.1 miles per gallon for the 2009 model year.
Rounding out the top five are Honda (29.7 mpg),Source: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed

An adventurer and his Brammo Enertia

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Green Daily

Just because an electric bicycle gives off zero tailpipe emissions and does its part to save the planet doesn't mean it's going to protect the rider. A friend of a Wired reporter recently bought a Brammo Enertia ebike in Oregon and began a cross-country trip back to Atlanta. The rider, Nathan Abbott, knew that it would be a tough ride - the bike's range is a paltry 40 miles and the entire trip was 3,800 miles. NotSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Volkswagen Polo named 2010 European Car of the Year

Filed under: Europe, Hatchback, Volkswagen


2010 Volkswagen Polo - Click above for high-res image gallery
It can be a bit overwhelming when every magazine and their various editions pick their own Car of the Year each annum. Fortunately, the Europeans have it together. Literally.
Every year, seven of the continent's biggest car mags - each from a different country and in a different language - get together and jointly choose the European Car of the Year. The process Source: Autoblog RSS Feed

REPORT: Tata Motors back in the black as Jaguar/Land Rover fortunes improve

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, SUV, Jaguar, Land Rover, India, Tata, Luxury, Off-Road


While many confusing car-related things have happened in the upper strata of the Autoverse over the last few years (Aston Martin and Ferrari both being impart owned by Middle Eastern concerns, Aston Martin not being bankrupt) perhaps the most shocking and disconcerting was Ford's sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to India's Tata. To many, the scheme seemed doomed from the get go and after aSource: Autoblog RSS Feed

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mobile Race Has Two Clear Winners

We have long written that the current mobile wars have at their heart two major keys; applications and technology. The applications wars is raging but today has a clear winner in Apple’s iPhone. The question is whether leisure application can flip into business ones and it hard to see any reason this should not happen. So we are down to how many times developers wish to write and maintain their apps, one maybe two but not many times. The result is Apple and potentially Android and the rest Source: Booksellers Association RSS Feed