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Last week, a GOP lawmaker spoke on the radio about the discrepancy regarding the appointment of a federal agency to handle state-dependent transportation issues. Representative Cory Gardner (R-CO) suggested that the Department o...
Posted Monday, August 15th, 2011 at 10:32 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence, Transportation
You will not find the standard fuel economy sticker on the window of a Big Rig. Unlike passenger trucks, the fuel efficiency of medium and heavy-duty trucks has always been more elusive.
Similar to light-duty vehicles, truck ...
Posted Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 10:40 am | Filed in: Policy, Transportation
On Friday of last week, President Obama officially announced the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, increasing fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) for light-duty vehicles by 2025. The administrationâ...
Posted Monday, August 1st, 2011 at 1:07 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Policy, Transportation
At a time when the international community is fixed on the implications of the U.S. debt crisis, the government is under heavy scrutiny regarding any new spending.
On the other hand, large corporations are beginning to step up,...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 2:20 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
In Europe, private and non-profit organizations are taking opportunities to support electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure into their own hands. Large UK utility companies are developing competitive products for electric vehicle cha...
Posted Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 at 11:50 am | Filed in: Automotive, Electrification, Transportation
It wasn’t only the fact that it was a sparkly new hybrid vehicle; it was the miles per gallon (mpg) gauge on the dashboard that got him hooked. When test driving the recently released hybrid electric Chevrolet Volt, Joe Nocera...
Posted Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 at 1:24 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Electricity, Transportation
The 73-27 vote on an amendment to end ethanol subsidies last Thursday in the Senate highlights a bipartisan statement on the urgency to reduce the national debt. This vote comes just two days after a failed vote to repeal subsid...
Posted Monday, June 20th, 2011 at 8:47 am | Filed in: Policy, Renewables, Transportation
Companies such as GM and Honda, as well as prominent venture capitalists, are broadening their scopes, and looking to startups for innovative technologies in transportation. Â Plus, new considerations for fuel-economy standards ar...
Posted Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 at 10:49 am | Filed in: Automotive, Transportation
Pete Kasperowicz in The Hill today has a good piece about the Obama Administration's draft proposal to reauthorize the federal surface transportation programs. This is an important piece of legislative business that has been lan...
Posted Thursday, May 5th, 2011 at 7:01 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Hardly a day passes without references in the news to better vehicle fuel economy or improved operating efficiency generally. Today, the Associated Press reported that gasoline demand fell for the fifth week in a row. They not...
Posted Monday, April 11th, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Automotive, Oil, Transportation
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