1946 Chevy pickup truck is world’s oldest Prius hybrid. Really.
There are countless tales of classic cars and trucks receiving new life via parts from a completely different automobile.
Archive for year: 2017
Tesla buyers antsy for Model 3 keys months after $1,000 deposit
While his high-school classmates were blowing their money on Chipotle burritos and concert tickets, Truman Hale was saving up for a Tesla. In March of last year, after years of penny pinching, he plunked down a $1,000 deposit on a Model 3.
U.S. may revise 2021 fuel efficiency standards, freeze targets
The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday it may revise auto fuel efficiency requirements starting with the 2021 model year, a year earlier than previously disclosed, and could adopt lower standards through 2025.
Venezuela: Latin America’s ticking time bomb
Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, surely goes down as leader of the most dysfunctional, basket case country in Latin America.
Why California’s most polluting vehicles aren’t required to get smog checks
It’s California’s dirty little emissions secret.
We may have even less time to stop global warming than we thought
At least since 2013, one of the biggest concerns in the climate change debate has been the so-called carbon budget — a fixed limit to the volume of carbon dioxide emissions that we can put into the atmosphere before irrevocably committing to a considerably hotter planet.
E15 bill stalls in Senate, as oil state senator pushes back
Efforts by oil lobbyists to squelch legislation expanding the sale of gasoline with higher concentrations of ethanol seems to be working.
Drivers should brace for higher gas prices: AAA
Drivers have benefited from unusually low gasoline prices to start the summer, but the reprieve will be short lived, AAA said Thursday.
Much of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has disappeared because of bacteria
Researchers from several leading institutions in the United States say they have discovered a new kind of naturally occurring underwater bacteria that has eaten a considerable portion of the oil that spilled out of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.
