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...Changfeng Motor, doesn't care if his company loses the race to be the first Chinese automaker to sell cars in America. He doesn't worry about rival automakers from the Chinese mainland beating him with coupes or sedans or mini cars that go 50 miles on a gallon of gas. What Chen does care about is exporting a competitive Chinese-made SUV, ideally within a couple of years. "What's important to us is for the market to accept us," he said through an interpretor in an interview at the Detroit auto show. On Monday, Changfeng took the wraps...
...electric concept car called the Chevrolet Volt. A lithium ion battery pack powers the car and a three-cylinder engine can recharge the batteries, extending the vehicle's driving range up to 640 miles. The engine also runs on E85 ethanol, getting fuel economy up to 150 miles per gallon - and conceivably eliminating the need for gasoline almost entirely. All in all, it would be a quantum leap over GM's last electric car, the EV1, and GM wasn't shy about saying so. "A GM electric car is an inconvenient truth," quipped vice chairman Bob Lutz...
...than their fuel-economy stickers indicated they would. Faced with a growing chorus of complaints, the EPA reacted by holding hearings last winter and collecting more than 3,000 comments from manufacturers, consumers and environmentalists. This week the EPA announced it was changing how it determines the miles-per-gallon estimates that appear on new vehicle window stickers...
...rule, however, will have no bearing on the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) numbers the manufacturers provide the U.S. Department of Transportation. The CAFE rules require cars to get at least 27.5 miles per gallon, but the numbers are compiled in a different way from the numbers on the fuel-economy stickers...
...hangs her wash outside and uses cold water in the washing machine. That shed another 2,500 pounds. She drives slower - ever accelerating past 55 miles per hour in her Honda Civic. Another 2,500 pounds lost, plus a boost in her mileage up to 39 miles per gallon. Finally, the family devised a new commute plan that enabled her husband and her daughter to ride their bikes to work and school. They also bought an electric bike and that shaved off some more poundage - totaling a loss of 7,600 in transportation emissions. All told, these changes amount...