In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush made a commitment "to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." Read More »

Ever since Congress imposed corporate average fuel economy requirements in the 1970s, automakers have been complying by downsizing their vehicles so they use less fuel and/or by using sales of smaller, lighter, and more fuel-efficient vehicles to offset what's consumed by their bigger vehicles. Read More »

The typical school bus stops and starts many times while picking up and letting offstudents. It often spends more time stopped and idling while loading and unloading than driving down the road. Hybrid electric vehicles love lots of starts and stops. That's why there is so much interest in hybrid electric transit buses, delivery trucks, refuse pickup trucks and taxis. Read More »

MEMA has learned that an interagency report on greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies led by the California EPA (Cal/EPA) is expected to recommend agencies pursue more than two dozen rules now under consideration, including further vehicle technology improvements and more ethanol in gasoline. Read More »

Pennsylvania -- On behalf of Governor Edward G. Rendell, Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today awarded $1.3 million to the Recycling Environmental Group and Carbon Services Corp. to fund projects that will help to clean up the state's largest waste tire pile. Read More »

Guidepoint(TM) Begins Shipping New GSM-Based Telematics System New Stolen Vehicle Recovery, Fleet Management System Debuts in Mexican Market PONTIAC, Mich. — Guidepoint(TM) announced that it has begun shipping a new stolen vehicle recovery and fleet management system that operates on the nationwide Cingular Wireless GSM(TM)/GPRS/EDGE network in the U.S., internationally via Cingular roaming agreements with GSM- based carriers in individual ... Read More »

Survey Reports Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Purchase Seen as Patriotic Campaign to Promote Use of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles According to a recent survey, most Americans now see buying a fuel-efficient vehicle as a patriotic gesture. Tens of millions in the U.S. are considering switching to a fuel-efficinet vehicle in the face of worsening gasoline price shock, reports the Opinion Research Corporation survey released ... Read More »

Tucked into a 631-page bill (H.R. 4520), which is now headed to a House/Senate conference committee, is an obscure, one-sentence provision that would extend to the end of 2007 the existing $100,000 tax break for businesses that purchase SUVs or other passenger trucks over 6,000 pounds. Read More »

The following statement was issued today by Allen Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, in response to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signing into law of AB 923 (Firebaugh), which will raise up to $80 million annually to replace old diesel school buses and agricultural engines with new, cleaner ones: “We applaud Governor Schwarzenegger and the legislature for instituting this ... Read More »

Electrovaya Inc., a world leader in Lithium Ion SuperPolymer(R) battery technology, announces the receipt of the “Technology Award” and the “Battery Electric Vehicle Award” at the Tour de Sol. In presenting the “Technology Award” to Electrovaya, Dr. Robert Wills, chairperson of the Technical Committee said, “The critical search for the next generation of clean automobile is accelerating. Amongst emerging technologies, ... Read More »