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Camaro Steals the Show at SEMA!
The SEMA Show is the premier automotive trade event in the world and draws the industry’s hottest automotive stars to Sin City. As one of this year’s highlights, Chevrolet will introduce four new concept cars based on the Chevrolet 2010 Camaro.
The concepts join regular-production and accessorized models, along with a dream collection of vintage Camaros, [...]
SUV Crossovers - Designed by Women
Ten years ago, women - especially moms - helped make SUVs top sellers because of their roominess, safety and command view of the road. But, the rugged, off-road-ready SUVs were not originally designed with families in mind. Now, women are driving sales of a new generation of “family car,” the crossover.
A crossover is vehicle that [...]
General Motors 100th Anniversary - Reinventing the Automobile
Since its founding in 1908, General Motors has built over 450 million vehicles and currently manufactures cars in 35 different countries. To mark their 100th birthday, they rolled out what they are calling the “reinvention” of the automobile - the all-electric drive Chevrolet Volt.
The day kicked off with a live global broadcast in Detroit, where [...]
Going Green Can Increase Your MPG by 50-100%
Drivers struggling with high gas prices may have another option the next time they hit the road: a new system that can turn a vehicle into a hydrogen hybrid which dramatically boosts a vehicles’ gas mileage.
The cars are modified with a unique fuel cell system — a computer that communicates with the car’s computer — [...]
Nation’s Biggest Geothermal Find in 25 years!
According to ksl, a company is claiming it has found the nation’s biggest geo-thermal find in 25 years in southwest Utah.
This weekend they’re already finishing up a power plant to provide electricity for Mickey Mouse’s home town.
“We call them ‘heat farms’ because we’re just extracting heat out of the earth,” says Michael Hayter of Raser [...]
Enhanced Geothermal Systems & Google
The climate and energy team at Google recently announced $10.25 million in investments in a breakthrough energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS).
EGS has the potential to provide clean renewable electricity 24/7, at a cost cheaper than coal. The ability to produce electricity from geothermal energy has been thought exclusive to locations such as California [...]
Designing a Petroleum-Free Transportation Future
From as close as Detroit to as far away as China, twenty one students around the world were chosen to design and engineer a hydrogen-powered car for the year 2020 as a part of the Annual Design Internship Program, by General Motors.
Each team of interns had a designer, an engineer, a sculptor, and a trim [...]
Northrop Grumman - Monitoring Earth from Space
Hundreds of guests and employees attended an event featuring U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and California’s Lt. Governor John Garamendi and Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) chairman and CEO Ronald D. Sugar to highlight the contributions Earth observation satellites are making to global climate change monitoring. The event was held at the company’s Space Technology sector [...]
Shell Secures the Perdido Spar in the Gulf of Mexico
The Shell-operated Perdido Regional Development Spar has arrived in the ultra deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico and is currently being secured to the seafloor in about 8,000 feet of water. Once completed, the Perdido spar will be nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower and weigh as much as 10,000 cars. Perdido will be [...]
Fuel Cell Technology on a Roll
As environmental awareness increases, so does the need for better fuel alternatives. One of those energy sources is getting a lot of buzz - and moving from laboratory testing to the road.
Hydrogen fuel cells are electric energy sources that have the potential to power everything from cell phones to large buildings. For cars, they provide [...]
