Mattel Year 2009 Matchbox 1:64 Scale Die Cast Car Metro Rides Series # 25 of 100 – Red Hybrid Electric Car Honda Insight (R0456)

Mattel Year 2009 Matchbox 1:64 Scale Die Cast Car Metro Rides Series # 25 of 100 – Red Hybrid Electric Car Honda Insight (R0456)

• Diecast Metal and Plastic Parts
• Realistic Details
• 1:64 scale
• For age 3 and up

Mattel Year 2009 Matchbox 1:64 Scale Die Cast Car Metro Rides Series # 25 of 100 – Red Hybrid Electric Car Honda Insight (R0456)

Price: $ 3.99

This Week In Cars – The Holden Commodore, Mitsubishi’s electric hybrid SUV, Racing News, and more!

This week, JRR and Crystal recap news and announcements including the Holden Commodore coming to the US, Mitsubishi’s electric hybrid SUV, and Mercedes planned eco-supercar. Plus they highlight the top racing news like GM’s possible return to World Rally Championship. In the “Strap In” segment they show videos of all the new electric cars and the weird sounds they make! The “Junk in the Trunk” segment features scratch covering stickers, the new Jaguar iPad app, and a horse in a car? For more information, show notes, and schedule visit www.thisweekin.com

Green Car of the Year Finalists: Hybrid, Electric, and Gas Models

Green Car of the Year Finalists: Hybrid, Electric, and Gas Models

Since Green Car Journal’s launch 18 years ago, the magazine has focused on the crucial intersection of automobiles, energy, and the environment. This was relatively new back in the early 1990s, but no less important than today.

In fact, it was the groundwork laid back then that’s led to the current generation of advanced and efficient vehicles available to us now, and those coming in the short years ahead – cars with electric drive, and vehicles with high efficiency gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines offering truly astonishing fuel economy. Plus, models that achieve ever-higher miles-per-gallon and lower CO2 greenhouse gases due to lightweighting, more sophisticated computer control, or technologies like electro-hydraulic steering and brakes that relieve parasitic load on an engine and allow more efficient operation.

What we’re witnessing today is an auto industry that’s rising to the challenge of providing vehicles that meet increasingly stringent emissions and fuel economy goals, while listening to the voice of the customer and offering these attributes in vehicles they want to buy.

Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year® award program honors these vehicles and the environmental leadership they bring to this field. Each year, five finalists are selected to be considered for the award, with dozens of potential nominees weighing in during the selection process.

Green Car Journal editors consider vehicles employing all fuels and technologies in the effort to raise the bar in environmental performance, including high efficiency gasoline internal combustion, advanced diesel, hybrids, electrics, and vehicles capable of running on alternative fuels. Ultimately, five outstanding models make the final cut as nominees.

These nominees rise above the crowd as outstanding examples that forward environmental performance in meaningful and quantifiable ways. Market significance and ‘newness’ are also factors. All nominees must also be on sale by January 1st of the award year.

Finalists will be considered by jurors that include leaders of the nation’s top environmental organizations, including Carl Pope, chairman of the Sierra Club; Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Jean-Michel Cousteau, president of Ocean Futures Society, and Matt Petersen, president of Global Green USA. Also, Jay Leno, noted auto enthusiast and host of the ‘Tonight Show,’ as well as automotive icon Carroll Shelby, will join Green Car Journal editors on the Green Car of the Year 2011 jury.

For the first time, the Green Car of the Year® finalists include two primarily electric-drive vehicles in addition to two hybrids and a high mile-per-gallon, gasoline internal combustion model. The nominees for the 2011 Green Car of the Year are the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, and the Nissan LEAF.

Making the cut to become finalists for the 2011 Green Car of the Year® amid a field replete with notable ‘green’ models is an honor in itself. To acknowledge this, these exemplary vehicles are further distinguished as Green Car Journal’s ‘TOP 5 GREEN CARS FOR 2011.’

These five 2011 Green Car of the Year® finalists reflect an auto industry in transition. It wasn’t long ago when electric drive was a novelty. Now, it’s expected that most auto manufacturers will include electric drive in some form among their model offerings. While four of the five Green Car of the Year finalists do incorporate some form of electric drive, the Ford Fiesta nominee reminds us that internal combustion continues to evolve in important ways that bring new levels of fuel efficiency and environmental performance to conventionally powered models.

The 2011 Green Car of the Year® will be announced at the L.A. Auto Show during the show’s second press day on November 18.

Trailer: “What is the Electric Car?”

What is the Electric Car? is a new feature length documentary from Nemours Marketing & Dastoli Digital about Electric Vehicles (EVs) which will become commonplace around the world by the end of 2010. This entertaining film will trace the early history of EVs and continue forward 100 years later to follow the re-birth of an entire industry. This film is not just for EV enthusiasts or those passionate “Green” consumers, but will be an exciting journey for all audiences to go “Back to the Future!” www.dastolidigital.com
Video Rating: 5 / 5

The Electric Car: Development and Future of Battery, Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Cars (IEE Power & Energy Series, 38)

The Electric Car: Development and Future of Battery, Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Cars (IEE Power & Energy Series, 38)

This book covers the development of electric cars — from their early days to new hybrid models in production — together with the very latest technological issues faced by automotive engineers working on electric cars, as well as the key business factors vital for the successful transfer of electric cars into the mass market. Considerable work has gone into electric car and battery development in the last ten years with the prospect of substantial improvements in range and performance in battery cars as well as in hybrids and those using fuel cells. This book comprehensively covers this important subject and will be of particular interest to engineers and managers working in the automotive and transport industries.

Also available:

Propulsion Systems for Hybrid Vehicles – ISBN 9780863413360
Local Energy: Distributed generation of heat and power – ISBN 9780863417399

The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year; a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including:

-Power & Energy
-Renewable Energy
-Radar, Sonar & Navigation
-Electromagnetics
-Electrical Measurement
-History of Technology
-Technology Management

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What is the Electric Car? Trailer 2

What is the Electric Car? is a new feature length documentary from Nemours Marketing & Dastoli Digital about Electric Vehicles (EVs) which will become commonplace around the world by the end of 2010. This entertaining film will trace the early history of EVs and continue forward 100 years later to follow the re-birth of an entire industry. This film is not just for EV enthusiasts or those passionate “Green” consumers, but will be an exciting journey for all audiences to go “Back to the Future!” www.WhatIsTheElectricCar.com
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Forget Gas, Go Electric!!

www.normspace.com Electric Car and Trucks I went to a Earth day event.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Bankrupting car makers may mean killing the electric car, again

Nobel laureate: If the automakers fail to make a viable electric car, the US could lose critical technology to competitors. GM Volt technology allows a car to drive for 40 miles before switching over to gas/petrol – but we have electric cars like the Tesla that can go 240 miles without recharging – plenty enough for everyday driving. It seems that the auto makers are stalling ~
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Green GT Electric Race Car Concept

Video Rating: 4 / 5

Mattel Matchbox 2007 MBX Metro Rides 1:64 Scale Die Cast Metal Car # 29 – Metallic Red Semi Convertible Coupe Smart Cabrio Hybrid Electric Car

Mattel Matchbox 2007 MBX Metro Rides 1:64 Scale Die Cast Metal Car # 29 – Metallic Red Semi Convertible Coupe Smart Cabrio Hybrid Electric Car

• Diecast Metal & Plastic Parts
• Realistic Details
• 1/64 Scale
• Age : 3+

Mattel Matchbox 2007 MBX Metro Rides 1:64 Scale Die Cast Metal Car # 29 – Metallic Red Semi Convertible Coupe Smart Cabrio

Price: $ 23.95

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