The car finalists are the Buick LaCrosse, the Ford Fusion Hybrid and the Volkwagen Golf.
North American car, truck of year finalists include two from GM, Ford
Lost in Detroit?
“The U.S. government bought the equity in this company, so they are obviously looking for return on that equity like any shareholder would be looking for it. And that’s what this company intends to deliver. That’s what Capitalism is about,” Whitacre said.
GM, Chrysler cleared executive decks in 2009
“There’s nothing inherent about the bankruptcy process that creates these dramatic management changes. It’s more a response by the new boards of directors and what they perceive.”
How Leo DiCaprio started a car company
“Being a car enthusiast and loving cars, to be quite honest, I could not imagine a life without a beautiful, fast sports car,” Fisker said.
A Nightmare on Auto Street: Big boxes
“What if they didn’t have a dealer network,” Mendel said. “What if they used big-box retailers and contracted with Jiffy Lube to have your car fixed?
Sailing around the world on sunlight
A Swiss engineer wants to navigate around the world in a catamaran called “Planet Solar,” powered entirely on the sun’s energy.
Futurist says dollars mean bright future for solar energy
“It has the side effect that it’s environmentally much friendlier,” Kurzweil said at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena, California.
A scheme by any other name…
It was a discussion that would have made George Bernard Shaw smile. The British Nobel Prize-winning writer said America and England were separated by their common language.
Students use “Dracula Sneeze” to fend off swine flu
To keep the swine flu from spreading, California public school students are being told to practice what they have dubbed the “Dracula Sneeze.”
PG&E takes smart meter lead in U.S.
California utility PG&E is at the head of the class when it comes to smart meters in North America, having installed 2.3 million of them.
What a difference a year makes – Valero embraces corn ethanol
At last year’s American Petroleum Institute conference, Bill Klesse, CEO of leading U.S. oil refiner Valero, slammed federal policymakers who push subsidies and mandates for production of ethanol, saying that using corn to make it would make food so expensive it would cause more misery than global warming.
“All of these programs are just a huge transfer of wealth [...]
Group wants oil, gas drillers to follow rules in U.S. West
An environmental group this week issued a report saying oil and gas companies have enjoyed exemptions to common sense anti-pollution federal rules that govern companies in other industries. This has led, the Environmental Working Group claims, to fouled groundwater, creeks and acres and acres of formerly pristine land in the U.S. West.
Electric cars to help solve riddle of storing power
Since the days of Thomas Edison, finding a way to effectively store electricity has been one of the “Holy Grails” for power companies.
While it won’t be an overnight revolution for electricity, eventually plug-in electric cars and trucks will be a step toward the elusive goal, said Ted Craver, chief executive officer of Edison International.
Edison International [...]
How many jobs does it create to screw in a lightbulb?
Change to an energy-saving lightbulb – create a job?
Energy efficiency efforts in California over the past three decades have created or saved 1.5 million jobs and added $45 billion to payrolls in the state, according to a report from David Roland-Holst of the Center for Energy, Resources and Economic Sustainability at the University of [...]
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