The road is about to get a little more crowded for the Toyota Prius. Starting Tuesday, the Honda Motor Company will offer American consumers what it bills as “the world’s first affordable hybrid.â€
Costing just shy of $20,000, the Honda Insight promises to let drivers respond to both of the leading crises of our day: the environment and the recession. …Â Details
Zero Motorcycles plans to put its two-wheelers to the test and achieve a world record for the longest electric-powered motorbike race. Lasting 24 consecutive hours, 10 teams of at least five riders each will power through an off-road circuit complete with ramps, jumps and sharp 90-degree turns.
Gene Banman, the chief executive of Scotts Valley, California-based Zero Motorcycles, said he is organizing the April 4-5 event to change people’s perceptions…. Details
On the second day of his tour of Southern California, President Obama highlighted his environmental jobs agenda with a visit to an electric-vehicle testing facility in Pomona, where he announced a $2.4-billion competitive grant program to make the electric vehicles more widely available.
The president renewed his commitment to doubling the country’s supply of renewable energy over the next few years—including spending $11 billion upgrading the nation’s power grid to ease the delivery of renewable energy across the country, and $15 million to help develop green technologies such as solar and wind power, and new coal technologies… DetailsÂ
One of the reasons Autodesk became such a dominant provider of computer-aided design software was its decision early on to seed its software in architecture schools and universities. Now, the company is angling to position itself in the field of green product design.
Its latest awareness/marketing project is sponsorship of a project by PlanetSolar to design and construct a solar catamaran that will be used to circumnavigate the globe during a 25,000-mile, 120-day journey in 2010. The company, based in Germany, will use stops during the trip to promote renewable energy and solar power.
At first I wondered, why does a sailboat need solar power?…Â Details