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Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Goes Twice The Distance

Posted by Environmental Leader on 06/06/2008

Toyota has developed a new fuel cell (zero pollution) hybrid powered by hydrogen and electricity that can travel more than twice the distance of its predecessor model without filling up, The AP reports.The maximum cruising range of the FCHV-adv model is 516 miles, compared with 205 miles of the i ...

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Are Hybrids Safe For Drivers?

Posted by Environmental Leader on 06/05/2008

There is a legitimate scientific reason for asking whether hybrid vehicles are healthy for drivers, writes Jim Motavalli, in the New York Times.Motavalli, editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, and author of several books, notes that the battery-supplied electrical current that moves a hybrid v ...

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The Google economy

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 18/04/2008

I think there’s something more fundamental happening in Google’s rousing quarterly report yesterday than we’re seeing in the news reports about it (which are mostly eating crow over predictions to the contrary). I think we’re seeing a new definition of “the economy.R ...

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Bridgestone Firestone Runs Forklifts On Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Posted by Environmental Leader on 08/04/2008

Bridgestone Firestone’s plant in Aiken County, S.C. is replacing traditional battery-powered forklifts with ones powered by hydrogen fuel cells. A hydrogen fuel pump is being installed across from the plant that will be used by Bridgestone Firestone as well as other surrounding businesses. ...

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SunChips Solar Coming-Out Party

Posted by Environmental Leader on 04/04/2008

Frito-Lay is planning a major ad campaign to tout that one of the factories that makes SunChips is powered by the sun. A field of solar concentrators at Frito-Lay’s Modesto, Calif. manufacturing facility will go online April 21, one day before Earth Day.It’s not Frito-Lays first solar ...

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