Then came the automobile. While taking pains to note that it was  Gottlieb Daimler who invented the automobile and internal combustion engine, not Henry ford,
Chu said that it was Ford's assembly line that took the car to the mass market.
Productivity per worker went up enormously, he said. ENERGY Chu said he saw similarities to Ford's assembly line
Clean energy technologies can positively impact the environment the same way that automobiles did. Not that cars don't produce smog,
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
If you put a lot of it in a car, you need to retrofit your vehicle to handle it.
or driving an electric car laminated wood costs more than steel and concrete. However, it allows for saving during the construction process.
That s the same amount of gas given off by 118 cars in just a single year of driving.'
Other vendors have been jumping on the green bandwagon, and many across the industry are pressing data center operators
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. Click here to see Bayer s TED Talk last summer.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Enterprise Rent-a-car removed airbags from fleet cars, sold them, didn't inform customersenterprise Rent-a-car, the nation's largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, is in hot water today after the company chose to remove a standard safety feature--side-curtain airbags--from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles
and then sold them on the open market without disclosing the alteration. After the company rented out 66,000 of the 2006 to 2008 models,
Further, the company said it will offer to buy back the cars, regardless of condition, at $750 above Kelley Blue book value.
the rental car business has been criticized for its bureaucratic red tape, complex insurance policies and high fees. Still, I wonder
Believe it or not, Icelandic geothermal to power European cars Fuel efficient cars: What a waste Meanwhile up in the sky,
looking for a non-food feedstock to produce fuel for jets and automobiles. In the Pacific Northwest, forest biofuel has been touted as a potential job creator,
Car runs on coffee smashes speed record Users can program the Blossom One Limited with presets for various flavors of coffee.
While most of us have thought at least about curtailing the fuel use of cars, we ignore global warming consequences
-I ride the designated quiet cars on British trains because I can t stand the tinny sound that leaks out of the ghastly things (go ahead
and are greater than those of all  cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.
and treat it accordingly--washing down their cars on a daily basis (which explains why I never saw a dirty car in that decidedly dusty environment),
hosing down outside spaces, maintaining lush gardens, and so on. Indeed, energy in general is too cheap in Abu dhabi at about $1. 80 for a gallon of gasoline
is going on year 12 in Portland without a car and says Portland, Ore.,is certainly a model for sustainability,
You can see their commitment to getting people to where they need to go without the automobile.
We have a car share program through U Car Share. Do people bike year-round in the snow?
I ve been car-free for most of the time I ve been in Portland the last 12 years.
30-story hotel built in just 15 days Volkswagen car goes 1, 626 miles on a tank of gas China s new bullet train is world s fastest, smashes record Video:
sets world record video Is this 400-mile electric car battery for real
Icon Carol Bartz, former CEO, Autodesk and Yahoo! Carol Bartz isn't afraid to get her hands dirty.
we had big ol gas-guzzling cars, and paid 30-something cents a gallon. People didn t know any better.
We have too many people with too many cars. Who creates the problems? It s the human beings, not the animals.
while still appealing to sports car purists who also happen to be quite wealthy. Beyond that, the latest addition to the Lamborghini family of cars gives the brand an opportunity to redesign their image--from being
for the longest time, an icon of excess to demonstrating to the world that six figure sports cars can
not only be fun, stylish and luxurious but also environmentally-Responsible for instance, Volkswagon has stated that they plan to ensure that Urus debuts as the greenest luxury SUV (translation:
Check back here tomorrow for a special preview of a car from the future. via Forbes) Related:
Super limousine is the world's fastest Superbus hopes to turbocharge mass transit Supertruck big rig design doubles fuel efficiency More game-changing car tech:
Car gets 3, 000 miles per gallon Futuristic motor home is ultra luxurious, fuel efficient The world's first 3-D printed car video Bipod flying car works like a Chevy Volt Can air hybrid cars make it on the mean streets?
New electric car may signal the end of the road for gas guzzlers
Laser-etched'tattoos'an alternative to sticker labels on fruityou'd think there would be a better way to label
and identify fruit than those ubiquitous little stickers, but so far, that age-old solution has been a bit...
the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
and sky, meaning that the classic retrofuturistic dream of a dual-mode flying car is well within grasp.
the latest version of the flying dune buggy developed by Steve Saint and his crew at the Indigenous Peoples Technology and Education Center (ITEC).
among other things â they've designed it as a kit car. These can be licensed in most states...
For the first certified Maverick's vanity plate, FLY CAR seemed an appropriate choice. As for the hardware, it's a lithe, 900lb vehicle reminiscent of a dune buggy.
'The Maverick flying car is just one piece of the puzzle for I-Tec. We've been working on this particular project for six years,
while the glider car is at an $80, 000 price point, but it wouldn't take much of a reduction to turn this into an attainable tool--or toy--for countless individuals and organizations.
it's a flying car. It'll sell itself
Melbourne debates eating animalsmelbourne--At the Melbourne Town hall, two teams were asked recently to argue for or against the sharply formed motion:
her designer dress Car s glass roof by day becomes interior light at night. Oh OLEDS!
Cars, buses, and trucks release plenty of pollutants and greenhouse gases that facilitate global warming,
But one fleet of cars remains on the roads, ferrying soily of vegetables to far-flung apartment blocks.
The cars belong to the Green league  an organic food delivery firm set up by a band of local mothers.
including saloon cars, spacious apartments, and (at least domestic) air travel for their vacations. But these parents are worried about the threat pollution poses to their quality of life.
 Chinese supermarkets have been eager to jump on the organic bandwagon, with foreign chains like Carrefour and Walmart leading the way with their own ranges of organic produce.
and get by without a car or two cars. It would also be good for the environment.
cars and trucks, public transit, pedestrians and bicyclists. Make sure to come back tomorrow for the final edition of our four-part series:
if you want to look up a Jaguar car, there no barcode to scan. But that data we have
Green Car Congress
San francisco adopts progressive urban agriculture lawit's now a lot easier to be a farmer in San francisco. That's
And, in addition to computer hardware and software, garage hackers and home-build enthusiasts are now merrily cooking up electric cars,
and termites that can eat old cars. If regulation of biohacking is too tight, such innovations or, at least,
Transportation The industrial world addiction to cars is costly and will become more so. The U s. uses roughly 21 million barrels of oil per day.
oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
Air-powered Cars and trains: As we featured in THE FUTURIST, September-October 2008, go-karts sporting air-powered engines whizzed around a racetrack in a test of mechanical engineering students prowess at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova scotia.
With support from Shell and inspiration from air-powered car concepts in Europe, the project aimed to develop a compressed air engine that would power a vehicle:
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