New Cars For The Young Professional
Once graduation happens, students say good-bye to the textbooks, part-time jobs and classrooms and say hello to 9-5 work days and full-time careers. With their new incomes, these young professionals begin to pay off their debts and loans and often purchase new cars to fit with their trendy and stylish…
What Are Your Bad Driving Habits?
Bad drivers come in every shape, size, age and gender. There are always those stereotypical terrible drivers that you do not like to see on the road. Although you complain about their driving, how well do you know your own driving? Take a look at the 10 worst driving habits…
Nissan Cube No Longer Sold in North America
The Nissan Cube is no longer sold in North America. A famous U.S. general, once said, “Old soldiers don’t die; they just fade away.” The same can be said of cars. Old, failed cars like the Nissan Cube just fade away without the fanfare, excited press releases or any of…
Power of the Sun from Orbit!
This sounds like an awesome step-forward! How would a space-based solar power system work? Proponents of the idea argue that the system would have all the benefits of terrestrial solar power – and that energy could be safely beamed back to Earth transmission stations 24 hours a day, seven days…
Tires Made from Dandelions?
If demand for tires keeps rising and raw material shortages persist, you may be driving soon on flowers and beans. With more and more cars on the road everywhere from Beijing to Boston, tire manufacturers have been hard-pressed to overcome nagging shortages compounded by factory capacity problems, rising material costs and limited availability of…
DPD Claims to Be Carbon Neutral
Parcel carrier DPD says it is to become the first in its industry to offer free carbon neutral shipping to its clients, who include UK ecommerce retailers. From July 2012 DPD says it will become the first express parcel carrier to provide its customers with free carbon neutral shipping. It…
Mircrosoft Adopts Carbon Offsetting
Microsoft is to set an internal carbon price to help drive greener business decisions across its sprawling global operations, in a pioneering policy yet to be adopted by many companies of its size. The software group, which operates in more than 100 nations, is also looking at buying wind farms…
New Ferrari F12 Engine Shuts Down at Red Lights?
Sports cars, reputed for being energy guzzlers, are now trying to boost their green credentials as they seek to attract environmentally conscious consumers and meet new climate standards. At the Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari conscientiously draped signs on its new models saying that the vehicles’ carbon emissions have been cut…
Taking Auto Recycling to an All New Level
Gotta love 53-year-old Momir Bojic, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, has recently showed-off his unique Volkswagen Beetle, made almost entirely from wood. Momir built his wooden Beetle six years ago, as a hobby, and says it took him an entire year to complete the job. At first glance, it looks like…