September 17, 2008
- Hurricane Hanna Helps Out in Our EcoDriving Video
The remnants of Hurricane Hanna arrived on the shores of South West England last weekend. (…)
September 12, 2008
- European Parliament Insists on Second Generation Biofuels
I don't know if the Gallagher Report had any influence on their thinking, but the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy has decided to back the proposals put forward by Luxembourg Green MEP Claude Turmes to mandate the use of second generation biofuels as part of the overall EU targets for the adoption of biofuels. The proposals also require that first-generation biofuels (manufactured from food crops such as corn, sugar and rapeseed), would need to meet strict sustainability criteria in order to count towards EU targets. (…)
September 7, 2008
- How to Take Effective Action to Curb Climate Change
The September 2008 edition of Environment Magazine contains an article entitled "The Short List: The Most Effective Actions U.S. (…)
August 29, 2008
- An Open Thank You Note to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Dear Sirs,
I note with interest that despite having had no futher communication from you since my telephone conversation with John Whatley yesterday afternoon (UK time) the offending symbol is now absent from the home page of your new website at http://EcoDrivingUSA.com. (…) - An Open Letter to the Members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Dear Sirs,
I note with interest that on August 18th 2008 your trade association, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, launched a new website at http://EcoDrivingUSA.com. (…) - An Open Letter to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Dear Sirs,
I note with interest that on August 18th 2008 you launched a new website at http://EcoDrivingUSA.com. (…) - Progress on our Open Letter to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
We've finally made some progress with our open letter to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. (…)
- Open Letters Concerning EcoDriving in the USA
Previous drafts of our open letters concerning EcoDriving in the USA
An Open Letter to the Association of Automobile Manufacturers (First Draft)
August 28, 2008
- EcoDriving Can Save You a Quarter of Your Fuel
Hot on the heels of the Auto Alliance announcement about their new EcoDrivingUSA.com website, AAM member Ford Motor Company announced yesterday that it has been testing the effects of EcoDriving training. (…)
August 22, 2008
- EcoDriving Officially Launched in the USA
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has just launched a new website, catchily entitled EcoDrivingUSA.com. (…)
August 17, 2008
- The First Three econnexus Projects
Today econnexus.org announced their first three projects.
To help raise funds we have started two projects. The first is our 2009 Calendar, which we will start selling from December 1st 2008. (…)
July 28, 2008
- The econnexus Econometer
The econnexus Econometer™ is an open source project (free as in “free speech”) to develop a multi-language OBD II compatible fuel economy meter based on a very low cost hardware platform. (…)
July 6, 2008
- New Smart Diesel is the World's Most Economical Car
In this weekend's Daily Telegraph Andrew English reviews three new variants of the Smart fortwo that are even more economical that the standard Smart car. (…)
June 30, 2008
- An Introduction to EcoDriving
EcoDriving is a new trend that has been getting some publicity recently. (…)
June 4, 2008
- CNN HyperMiling Video with Wayne Gerdes
Unfortunately I can't embed it in this blog post but CNN have recorded a HyperMiling Video that shows Wayne Gerdes, reputedly the original hypermiler, getting double the expected miles per gallon from his Honda Accord using some classic hypermiling techniques. (…)