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Network Would Underpin New Electric Car Plan »

Prior to his current “mission”, Shai Agassi, age 38,worked for SAP, the world’s largest maker of enterprise software.  Agassi believes it just might be possible to get the entire world off oil. For good.  The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by [...]

“American Spirit” Alive and Well »

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)  Larry Horsley and David Kennington are fed up. They’re among a growing number of Americans who are refusing to wait for big-car manufacturers to deliver mainstream electric vehicles, called EVs. Not only have they rebelled against the status quo by ripping out their gas-guzzling engines and replacing them with zero-emission electric motors, [...]

They Don’t Make’m Like They Used To: Car Logs 1.3M Miles »

A Kansas man drives a 1983 Lincoln Towncar - forever!  The odometer just turned over 1,300,000 miles. He loves his car, and who can blame him; it gets about 22 mpg on the highway, and it has never broken down.  That car doesn’t owe him a dime, thats for sure. 
Now, lets talk about “planned obsolecence“.  [...]

Hey I have an idea, Let’s Make Cars Lighter! »

How much gasoline could US citizens save by driving around in light-weight hybrid vehicles? Up to half what they currently use, say scientists at MIT.
The US consumes about 140 billion gallons of gasoline each year. A team of researchers led by John Heywood has completed a five-year assessment of what can be done to slash [...]

Cadillac El Dorado burns on the 101 fwy »

Today at 5pm on the 101 southbound between Oxnard and Thousand Oaks was a nice looking Blue Cadillac El Dorado burning to the ground…
The sad part about it was there was no firetrucks in sight just a ABC eye witness news cameraman filming the carnage. If i was in my Jeep i would have been [...]