The Solartaxi will be the first completely solar-powered car to drive around the world. It’s the creation of Louis Palmer, a Swiss educator and adventurer whose goal is not to make it in 80 days, but to raise awareness that global warming can be stopped and that solutions exist to lower greenhouse gas emissions...

According to a survey commissioned by Cars.com during July, about 50% of US consumers don’t believe that Obama or McCain has a magic rabbit up their sleeve that will lower prices at the pump any time soon
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...Ask Georges ;)
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Correction.
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Another reason to hate high fuel prices.
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Vacuum cleaner king planning to put solar-powered car on the street.
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Mazda's newest hydrogen rotary engine will take to public roads in Japan for testing this year.
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Here is a clever design from the Technical University of Berlin that they cleverly named CLEVER. It’s single cylinder 230 cc natural gas engine is capable of going 62 mph with a range of about 125 miles all the while emitting less than 60 g/km of CO2...