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Get alternative transportation news and reviews on green commuting, electric cars and hybrid vehicles.

2012 was a whizz-bang year for car trends
Fri, Dec 28, 2012 3:54 PM by Jim Motavalli
Although EV quotas were blown, 2012 will go down as the green car year, but that was only one important trend that emerged. Self-driving cars? Check. Jetpacks? Check? Crowdsourcing cars? Check.
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Spike in one-car accidents rings in New Year

Fri, Dec 28, 2012 1:59 PM by Ned Smith, BusinessNewsDaily

You may want to catch a cab on the first of the year, as the rates at which one-car accidents occur dramatically rise on New Years'.
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Driving a Cleaner Tomorrow

Solved: The mystery of the biofuel-filled train that kept crossing the border
Fri, Dec 28, 2012 10:32 AM by John Platt
A Canadian company and a partner are the latest to defraud an EPA system designed to bring more renewable fuels into the market.
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Virtual carpool app Lyft offers a more social ride

Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:21 AM

Video: Ride-sharing programs like Lyft are providing commuters with less expensive and more social ways to get around. Users log into the app, specify where they’re heading, and a background-checked driver picks them up for less than a typical cab ride.
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A sailing race around the world...on eco power
Thu, Dec 27, 2012 10:31 AM by Jim Motavalli
Javier Sanso is the only competitor in the grueling round-the-world solo yacht race known as the Vendee Globe to use 100 percent renewable energy. If it were a movie, he'd win. But right now he's in eighth place.
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World's longest fast train line opens in China

Thu, Dec 27, 2012 9:34 AM

Video: China opens the world's longest high-speed rail line that trims in half the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China.
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How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
Wed, Dec 26, 2012 11:48 AM by Michael Graham Richard
Today, we shrug off the convenience of long-distance travel as part of life, but it wasn't that long ago that simply getting there required a huge investment of time and money.
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Gridlock traced to just a few key commuters

Fri, Dec 21, 2012 10:45 AM by Charles Q. Choi, TechNewsDaily

A team of scientists analyzed road use patterns in the San Francisco Bay area and the Boston area to find ways to relieve traffic congestion.
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Boeing tests Wi-Fi on planes with ... sacks of potatoes?
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 11:58 AM by Melissa Breyer
Who needs people when you have spuds?
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Cruising in my propane truck
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 2:44 PM by Jim Motavalli
Yes, it's the same stuff that goes in your gas grill. People are stopping me on the street. 'A propane truck?' Sure nuff. This is a $2-a-gallon liquid fuel. What's not to like?
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Crowdsourcing your car
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 3:50 PM by Jim Motavalli
Jay Rogers thinks cars can be built by online communities. And why not use open-source architecture that allows constant and regular improvements from an energized group of computer-aided designers?
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Driving the 2013 Chevrolet Volt
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 1:24 PM by Melissa Hincha-Ownby
Three days of driving the Volt and less than two gallons of gas used.
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Is public transportation really greener than driving?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 11:07 AM by John Platt
Freakonomics digs into the issue — but the answer isn't as clear as you might think.
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Coda's layoffs spell trouble ahead
Fri, Dec 14, 2012 5:21 PM by Jim Motavalli
Take a cheap Chinese car, shoehorn in an electric drivetrain, freshen it up as best you can. Then pray. The strategy doesn't seem to be working for this California-based electric automaker.
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Should A123's battery technology be sold to China?
Mon, Dec 10, 2012 3:22 PM by Jim Motavalli
Sure, a lot of the noise about the sale of a federally subsidized American company to a Chinese high bidder is political, but there are legitimate concerns, too.
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