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Miles Electric Vehicles Announces Investment to Develop Highway Speed Sedan

Miles Electric Vehicles announced today a $15,000,000 investment round led by the Los Angeles based private equity fund, Angeleno Group, with participation from existing investors.

21 Feb 2008

Green Roads Right Around the Corner

Kevin Gardner sees green roads right around the corner. “A lot of the infrastructure in this country needs to be re-built,” says Gardner, University of New Hampshire associate professor of civil engineerin...

21 Feb 2008

ASLA Releases Series of Strategic Policy Recommendations on Climate Change

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has released a series of strategic policy recommendations on climate change to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate global warming.

20 Feb 2008

Permitting Lease Seekers to Target Environmentally Friendly Vehicles.

Reacting to changing market conditions, Swapalease.com improves user experience by including a new search category permitting lease seekers to target environmentally friendly vehicles.

20 Feb 2008

Collecting and Presenting Environmental Findings in a Virtual Environment

The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission has awarded a $1.2 million grant to Virginia Tech Outreach and International Affairs.

20 Feb 2008

New Greener Power Supply for Vehicles

Cardiff University researchers are exploring how waste heat from car exhausts could provide a new greener power supply for vehicles.

20 Feb 2008

Designing CLeaner Fuel Injectors Using High-Energy X-Ray

Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as automobile fuel injectors.

20 Feb 2008

New "Green" Initiative on Campus that Saves Money

At Mount Vernon Nazarene University, vegetable oil bathes French fries and other foods in a golden crust. Then it plows sidewalks, powers maintenance equipment and the occasional bus. It's a new "green" ini...

20 Feb 2008

Honda Claims Top Spot on ACEEE's Greenest Vehicles of 2008

Recognizing Honda's application of fuel efficient and alternative fuel technologies, four Honda vehicles earned recognition from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) as the "greenest vehicles of 2008" with the Civic GX natural gas car taking the title of the greenest vehicle for the fifth consecutive year, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today.

20 Feb 2008

OEMtek Begins Shipments of Battery-Equipped Add-On for Toyota Prius

Valence Technology, Inc. today announced by the end of February, it plans to ship an additional 600 custom modules of Valence’s safe, Lithium Phosphate energy storage systems for installation and conversion of Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles into Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles.

19 Feb 2008