AutoblogGreen for 11.01.07

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green

Ahhh, the joys of owning a Hummer. Who knew that being hard to park, terribly expensive to operate and subject to all sorts of excess taxes would be selling points? They are in Japan, where there’s a whole guilt culture building up around owning a Hummer.

So, he says sarcastically, let’s turn our attention back to things that make sense: celebrities. We’ve got Colbert, Leno and UC Davis for ya. And if you think that last one’s out of place, you haven’t met Dr. Andy Frank.

• Video: Hummer sales increasing … in Japan?
• Videos: Jay Leno’s E85 Corvette, Suzuki’s fuel cell bullet bike
• LA 2007 Preview: Toyota to make fuel cell announcement
• VW Jetta TDI Cup racing series coming to a track near you in 2008
• Kinda like Goldilocks: BioBox lets mid-level consumers make their own biodiesel
• Many retrofitted diesel particulate filters fail German tests
• SEMA 2007: Canola oil Caddy EXTMore details about the flywheel ‘kinetic energy recovery system’
• Video: Craig Venter tells Colbert how to make gas from DNA
• First prototype Chevy Volt battery packs arrive
• UC Davis to test plug-in hybrids in 100 households
• London 2012 Olympics the first to be “car-free”
• Toyota Prius, Camry and LS600h sales up, other hybrids down
• Brazil is not losing the train of cellulosic ethanol
• 2010 could bring Hyundai Elantra hybrid with lithium ion battery
• Detroit 2008 Preview: Fisker hybrid revealed!

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