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Why Not to Get Killed on a Bike

Posted by bensor on Saturday, 16 February 2013 in Transportation

Want to kill someone and get away with it? Run them over while they’re on a bicycle. Within Boston’s growing cycling community, a perceived lack of criminal prosecution of motorists involved in fatal bike crashes has been a regular source of outrage in recent years. That ire came to a fever pitch ...

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Riding Sunlight

Posted by Aaron on Thursday, 20 September 2012 in Transportation

Solar Power for Public TransportationFor those concerned about the environmental impact of their daily commute, taking public transportation may be a way to be nicer to the planet. According to statistics highlighted by the Sustainable Cities Collective, taking public transportation over driving can...

United Airlines joins sustainable aviation fuel users group

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 17 August 2012 in Transportation

United Airlines today announced it further strengthened its commitment to sustainability and the environment by joining the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), an industry working group whose objective is to accelerate the development and commercialization of aviation biofuels. “We are e...

Airplane travel and climate change

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 in Transportation

I spent the last 9 days traveling with my family in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and an unintended night in Cleveland, and like all of us who travel, helping the economy and adding extra greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. Our family of four flew from San Francisco to Manchester, N...

Charge - The Electric Motorcycle is here to stay

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 19 March 2012 in Transportation

Charge documents the inaugural grand prix for electric motorcycle racing at the venerable Isle of Man TT. Choosing the IoM as the GP debut for electric motorcycle racing both solidified the class as a credible racing format as well as ostracized it among racing traditionalists. “This is the...

The New Tesla, making SUV's Electric with Style

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 09 February 2012 in Transportation

Elon Musk said Thursday his luxury electric car company is in compliance with terms of its loans from the federal government, and on schedule to launch two new models by the end of next year. "We have a lot of cash in the bank," Mr. Musk said in an interview ahead of the scheduled unveiling...

What’s wrong with the electric car?

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 05 December 2011 in Transportation

It’s hard to find an energy wonk out there who doesn’t love the idea of electric cars. Most white papers on ending our oil dependency envision a large future role for plug-in vehicles and hybrids in the future. The concept has legions of devoted fans. Back in 2006, the documentary “Who Killed the El...

Getting Away From Oil

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 24 October 2011 in Transportation

At long last, America is taking steps to end our dangerous addiction to oil. With two announcements in the same number of weeks, the Obama administration announced plans that will require every new vehicle on the road to go farther on a gallon of gas, reducing the risk of more oil spills and the dan...

Can the Bicycle Save the World?

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 24 September 2011 in Transportation

Can the bicycle save the world? This Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be hopping on their bicycles and taking to the streets for Moving Planet, a global demonstration coordinated by 350.org. Together, we’ll not only be calling on our politicians ...

To Curb Driving, Cities Cut Down on Car Parking

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Transportation

Despite downtown business fears, some urban centers embrace “mini-parks.” Josie GarthwaiteFor National Geographic News Bit by bit, for the past 40 years, the city of Copenhagen has done something revolutionary: The Danish capital has reduced its parking supply. Cutting the total number of parking ...

Spaniards Trade Cars For Lifetime Trolley Pass

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 in Transportation

To get citizens out of their cars and onto a newly-opened public trolley system, the city of Murcia, Spain recently embarked on a rather radical campaign: it offered people lifetime trolley passes in exchange for permanently relinquishing their cars. Despite the growing popularity of hybrid and ele...

Approaching Peak Car Use

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Saturday, 09 July 2011 in Transportation

BY Ariel Schwartz Many major cities have seen a decline in driving over the past few years. The reasons for this are varied, but if it's a continuing trend, it's going to mean drastic changes for the way we shape our cities. Even major oil companies admit that we are reaching peak oil--the point w...

VW’s 235mpg car

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 01 July 2011 in Transportation

With oil prices at $135 dollars per barrel, the pressure is on for car makers to innovate and create more fuel efficient vehicles. Volkswagen seems to be taking this task seriously with the 1L, a prototype that is capable of traveling for 235mpg using 1 gallon of gasoline, or 100km on 1L of gas. Add...

Rethinking Silly Car Trips

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 27 June 2011 in Transportation

In an article in Monday’s Times, I write about various strategies that European cities are using to cut down on private car use and inner-city driving. In Zurich, a multipronged approach has left residents less likely to own a car and less likely to use one if they do. The goal is to make cities mo...

557 million gallons of oil used for transportation each day

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 in Transportation

A recent statistic stated that transportation is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas pollution in the United States. As we move forward, we need to make sure that we reduce this source of pollution through creating livable communities, making public transportation options more acce...

The car of the future is here

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 02 October 2010 in Transportation

Jaguar has unveiled a new supercar that has much in common with a jet plane. It'll accelerate quicker than a Lamborghini LP640, has a greater top speed than a Ferrari 458 Italia, and spews out fewer emissions than a Toyota Prius. Behold, friends, the holy grail of motoring: the Jaguar C-X75...

Potentially habitable planet discovered

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 01 October 2010 in Transportation

Washington, D.C. Astronomers have found a new, potentially habitable Earth-sized planet. It is one of two new planets discovered around the star Gliese 581, some 20 light years away. The planet, Gliese 581g, is located in a "habitable zone"—a distance from the star where the planet receives just the...

Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 22 August 2010 in Transportation

Can white elephants come in green? President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., on Thursday to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants at work and a gateway to a clean-energy future. G...

Plug-Free Electric Car Charger

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 01 August 2010 in Transportation

Plug-free charging — it’s been the holy grail for cell phone, laptop and gadget makers for years. And now it’s fodder for the plug-in vehicle crew. On Tuesday at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, Calif., a company called Evatran unveiled its “Plugless Power” electric vehicle charger, which wi...

Why can't the automobile industry get a handle on low-carbon cars?

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 22 July 2010 in Transportation

The answer's in the profit margins - which is why the credit crunch offers hope for the future, says Harriet Williams Last summer, Friends of the Earth Europe parked an old-style 1948 VW Beetle next to the brand-new model in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. The human genome has been s...