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Volvo Passes Environmental Milestone With Cleanest and Greenest Ever Trucks

The Volvo Group is passing an important milestone in its environmental efforts when Volvo Trucks now rolls out its most fuel-efficient and cleanest diesel engines ever. During the past 20 years, Volvo trucks in total have become one hundred times cleaner

9 Mar 2009

KFC and Taco Bell Operate First Green Restaurant

Yum! Brands the world's largest restaurant company and parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, has opened an environmentally-friendly KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts

9 Mar 2009

Kenworth Gets Major Order For Hybrid Trucks From Coca-Cola

Kenworth Truck Company announced today its largest ever hybrid truck order. The order from Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of Coca-Cola products, is for 150 Kenworth T370 diesel-electric tractors and 35 Kenworth T370 hybrid trucks, all of which will be on the road this year

5 Mar 2009

Siemens Energy Looks At Innovative Ways to Plug Electric Vehicles Into The Power Grid

As a partner in an international consortium Siemens Energy is to investigate within the framework of the EDISON project innovative options for connecting electric vehicles to the public power supply grid

27 Feb 2009

Fisker Luxury Plug In Hybrid Cars to Make European Debut at Geneva Motor Show

Fisker Automotive, the new American manufacturer of premium green automobiles, co-founded by Quantum, will unveil its Karma and Karma S luxury plug-in hybrid cars for the first time on European soil at the Geneva Motor Show

23 Feb 2009

US Government Economic Stimulus Package to Assist Renewable Energy and Clean Technologies

While details are still to be revealed about much of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act also known as the Economic Stimulus plan, it is clear that clean technologies are set to reap some benefit from this plan

19 Feb 2009

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet and Establishes Nearly 80 'Hybrid Branch' Locations in U.S.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas - electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as "hybrid branches."

16 Feb 2009

UsingTechnology and Smart Growth to Reduce CO2 Emissions

A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change, published February 10, 2009 online by Environmental Science and Technology, shows that "smart growth" combined with the use of hybrid vehicle technology could reduce cities' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions

12 Feb 2009

MIT Students Develop Shock Absorber That Havests Energy From Bumos in the Road

A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks

11 Feb 2009

University of Dayton Researcher Finds a Cheaper Way to Make Longer Lasting Fuel Cells

Liming Dai, the University of Dayton's Wright Brothers Institute endowed chair in nanomaterials, and fellow scientists have taken a step toward a more efficient fuel cell that can be affordably mass-produced

10 Feb 2009