Opinion: Don’t Waste Your Precious Profits
Staggeringly high prices for fuel are with us again. The last time fuel prices were hovering in the neighborhood of $3.80 to $4.40 per gallon, many trucking companies fought back aggressively, using fuel conservation techniques and making sure drivers …
Ballard and GS Caltex partner on waste-to-energy fuel cell demo
Ballard Power Systems has partnered with GS Platech, a subsidiary of GS Caltex, one of South Korea’s largest petroleum refiners, to demonstrate waste-to-energy power generation using zero-emission fuel cells and hydrogen produced from processing …
Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami Interrupting Car Production in U.S.
I often rail against the needlessly complicated and long supply chains that source today’s automobiles from around the globe. The recent double tragedy in Japan of the earthquake and tsunami highlights just how easily that chain can be broken.
First …
Ford introduces 2011MY Mondeo in China
Ford officially launched the 2011MY Ford Mondeo sedan across China, with 8 variants of the upper-middle sedan The Mondeo features the EcoBoost GTDi engine and PowerShift transmission; the Chinese market is one of the first markets in the Asia Pacific a…
Hawaii awards $820K contract to AeroVironment for up to 320 EV charging docks
Hawaii has awarded an $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Program to AeroVironment to fund the deployment of up to 320 AeroVironment 240-volt electric vehicle (EV) charging docks throughout the islands. Once deployment is completed, Hawai…
Starfile: 1960 Tell City plane crash
The first searchers arrive at a hilltop near Tell City where one wing and two engines of the Northwest Airlines plane came to each.
KERS Explained: Mark Webber Gives a Video Tour of His 2011 Ride
Mark Webber very nearly drove his Red Bull RB6 to the 2010 Formula 1 world championship last year – barely losing out to his teammate Sebastian Vettel in the final round of the series. This year, Mark and Sebastian are considered the early favorit…
US petroleum demand up 4.4% in February
Despite rising fuel costs, total US petroleum deliveries (a measure of demand) marked a 4.4% increase in February over the same month a year ago. At 19.7 million barrels per day, they were at a three-year high for the month. Gasoline deliveries, at 9.0…
Daimler Trucks launches new heavy-duty, Euro VI-compliant engines; X-PULSE injection system with pressure booster
Daimler Trucks has launched the Mercedes-Benz OM 47x, under the name “Blue Efficiency Power”. The Blue Efficiency Power generation of Mercedes-Benz engines has been specifically developed for use in Europe and is the first of its type to me…
Solazyme files for $100 million IPO
Filed under: Biodiesel, Emerging Technologies, USAWe’ve featured San Francisco-based Solazyme several times over the past few years, most notably for creating jet fuel from algae. Back then, the company estimated its algae-based fuel would be competiti…