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Greening Hollywood: The Electric Revolution

Paige Donner | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

We need to do that to oil. We need to destroy its strategic role and its monopoly over transportation. Electricity, as was the case with salt, is going to be right at the heart of that.

EVs vs. Gas-Powered Cars: No Ride to Utopia

Bob Schildgen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green


Bob Schildgen

Hey Mr. Green, Is an electric car really more efficient than a hybrid getting 50-plus miles per gallon running on gas? How efficient (and green) can i...

Toyota Plug-In Prius To Hit The Road Early In 2009

EcoGeek | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green


Toyota's plug-in capable Prius is getting a big boost for testing, hitting the open road a year ahead of schedule. Several hundred of the PHEVs will b...

Culture Zohn: T. Boone and Me: Red Oil Man and Blue Boomer Girl Have Something in Common

Patricia Zohn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green


Patricia Zohn

2008-08-01-pzohn.jpgBoone and I have something in common besides the fact that we are both interested in a Green solution this time, not Red or Blue: we have both reinvented ourselves a whole bunch.

Solar Cells, Turbo-Diesels Spell Future For Cars

Steve Parker | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green


Steve Parker

Many news reports the past two days have been about Toyota's intention to build the next-generation gas/electric hybrid Prius at a factory now under c...

Prius To Be Manufactured In United States

New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business


Toyota Motor of Japan said Thursday that it would build its popular gas-electric hybrid sedan, the Prius, in the United States for the first time as i...

Not So Green Eggs and Ham

Michelle Harris | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green


Michelle Harris

The amount of energy to produce a single hamburger is equivalent to the fuel it takes to drive 20 miles. That makes your trip to the golden arches very environmentally unfriendly -- even in a Prius.

Greening Hollywood: Arianna on The Green Carpet at The Millennium Awards

Paige Donner | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green


Paige Donner

Arianna was chosen to present the California Environmental Leadership Award to the LA Unified School District at Global Green's annual Millennium Awards held in Santa Monica June 14th.

Toyota Denies Prius Govt Funding Report

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. denied on Wednesday it had received any funding from the Japanese government to develop its hit Prius gas-electric hy...

Toyota To Offer Hybrid Plug-In Car By 2010

New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Toyota Motor Corporation, which leads the world's automakers in sales of hybrid-electric vehicles, announced Sunday night that it would build its ...

Who's Reviving The Electric Car?

GreenTechMedia | Rachel Barron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


As researchers, government agencies and financiers discuss how to bring electric vehicles to the masses at the International Electric Vehicle Symposiu...

As Prius Turns 10, Toyota Looks Toward Hybrid 2.0

AP | Yuri Kagemaya | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Since he was a teenager, Takeshi Uchiyamada's dream was to make a car. But as he entered his 50s as a Toyota engineer, he had all but given up hope he...