Cars & Transportation

Solar Reflective Paints Can Make Your Car Cooler, Cleaner

October 22, 2011

Courtesy of the Heat Island Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/via

We’ve all heard that wearing white on a hot day will keep you cooler than if you’re wearing black. So it makes sense that the same would hold true for your car. But that does…

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Sabotage! Tire-Busting Tack-Strip Found on Portland Bike Lane

October 21, 2011

If this was done on purpose, I hope they catch whoever did this…
Jeremy Dunn, a Portland cyclist, found something strange on his path while he as riding westbound on the bike lane on NE Marine Drive. A piece of tar pap…

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EV Owners Offered $50 Reward for Sharing Their Car

October 21, 2011

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I’ve posted before on why electric cars and car sharing schemes are potentially a match made in heaven. But while forward thinking cities like Paris are launching 3000+ vehicle electric car sharing schemes, there’s no reason for …

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Revenge of the Electric Car (Movie Review)

October 20, 2011

WestMidWest Productions/Promo image

If You Liked ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’, You’ll Love This…
Revenge of the Electric Car, which will be released in certain markets tomorrow, is the second part of what could easily become a trilogy of films. Pa…

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The Hidden Eco-Benefits of Working from Home

October 20, 2011

Image credit: Sami Grover…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Racing on Old-School Penny Farthing Bikes Is Surprisingly Intense (Video)

October 18, 2011

This summer, the IG Markets London Nocturne, perhaps the premier urban cycling competition, featured a variety of challenges that included straight-forward races, folding bike races and longest skid contests. But the most awesome, in my opinion, was …

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BlackBerry Outage Made Roads Safer for Everybody

October 17, 2011

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Don’t Text and Drive!
For years I’ve been saying that to make cities greener, we need to encourage more people to walk, bike, and take mass transit. There are many things to do to achieve that goal, and one of them is m…Read the ful…

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African Antelope Takes Out Cyclist (VIDEO)

October 16, 2011

Image: Screenshot from YouTube video

I’m not saying the NYPD are training African antelopes, but this attack looks suspiciously similar to a 2008 video of a NYPD cop body checking a critical mass cyclist. Connection? You be the judge. Watch the video…

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GM’s Super-Smart Pod Vehicle Looks at Future Transportation

October 15, 2011

An end to gridlock. An end to accidents. An end to driving. In fact you can conduct a video conference in traffic, and this podcar parks itself. As GM readies to roll out its electric mini-car, the Chevy Spark, as reported in Treehugger last week, it…

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Another Reason Transit Is Better Than Cars: It Is Kinder To Animals

October 14, 2011

Kirsten Thompson/Lloyd Alter

Urban cats usually have to fend for themselves, and are often squished by speeding cars. But here is a heartwarming story; In Toronto, they shut down one of the busiest streetcar lines in the City at one of the busiest int…

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