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Origo Industries turn CO2 emissions from your vehicle into fuel at your own home(16/06/2008)
Origo Industries has developed a system that captures the CO2 from your vehicle’s engine and then allows you to turn these emissions into fuel at your own home to re-power your car. The same fuel could also be used to power your house. The system uses a new approach where CO2 is regenerated through algae in a home unit, allowing the user to produce bio-oil (up to 2500 litres per year tax-free). Origo Industries is displaying its technology for the first ever time at the Green-Car-Guide Live! ... [more]
Looking for the UK's greenest motorist(27/05/2008)
Smart driving techniques deliver environmental, financial and safety benefits through reduced fuel consumption and a smoother driving style designed to reduce wasteful acceleration and braking. Ford and the Energy Saving Trust have announced a nationwide smart driving challenge to find the UK's greenest motorist. Ford's ECOnetic range of low CO2 models, showcased at this year's 'Sexy Green Car Show', will go on to regional smart driving events this summer. Motorists will compete at six reg... [more]
Other car news and resources
| Australian Car Sales Will Drop 13% in 2009, Industry Group Says (Bloomberg)Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Australian sales of cars and trucks will fall 13 percent this year as the global financial crisis erodes domestic demand for vehicles, according to an industry group. |
| Car sales screech to a halt (The Australian)A CRASH in business confidence has plunged the Australian car industry into its worst sales performance in 30 years. |
| The brakes are on new car sales (News Interactive)A CRASH in confidence has seen the Australian car industry suffer its worst sales in 30 years. |
| US car industry expected to have had worst year since 1992 (AM Online)The US car industry is expected to have had its worst year since 1992 after a sharp fall in December sales. |
| US car sales hit 17-year low (Perth Now)US car sales crashed again in December as the industry posted its worst year since 1992 and the Detroit Three saw their annual share of their home market slip beneath 50 per cent for the first time. |
| US car makers sink to 16year sales low (Daily Telegraph)The US car industry had its worst year since 1992 with December sales falling by more than a third underlining the dire state of consumer confidence in the world's largest economy. |
| Car sales plunge heralding bleak 2009 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) U.S. auto sales plunged by 36 percent in December led by outsized declines at Chrysler LLC, Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) and Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T) as the battered industry closed out its weakest year since 1992 in its largest single market. |
| US car sales crash in 2008 (News 24 South Africa)US car sales have crashed again in December as the industry posts its worst year since 1992. |
| Car sales plunge, heralding bleak 2009 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Major automakers reported U.S. sales in December that plunged by more than a third, closing out the weakest year for the battered industry in over a decade and a half in its largest single market. |
| Cloud on car sales (Herald Sun)AUSTRALIA'S car industry faces a downturn that could hit 15 per cent, making the sector a barometer of the country's economic health. |
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