GreenCarr Foundation » Green Automobiles http://greencarr.org GreenCarr Foundation Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:49:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Nissan Adds ‘Beautiful’ Noise to Make Silent Electric Cars Safe http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/nissan-adds-%e2%80%98beautiful%e2%80%99-noise-to-make-silent-electric-cars-safe/ http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/nissan-adds-%e2%80%98beautiful%e2%80%99-noise-to-make-silent-electric-cars-safe/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:37:52 +0000 admin http://greencarr.org/?p=58 dataBy Makiko Kitamura and Yuki Hagiwara
Bloomberg.com
September 18, 2009

With little noise from the engine, electric cars may be a danger to blind pedestrians who cannot hear them approaching. To address those safety concerns, transportation agencies in the U.S. and Japan may mandate artificial sounds for the vehicles.  The authors check in with Nissan engineer Toshiyuki Tabata, who is working on recreating engine noise for a new generation of quiet cars.

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]]> http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/nissan-adds-%e2%80%98beautiful%e2%80%99-noise-to-make-silent-electric-cars-safe/feed/ 0 Carmakers Count Down to Green Car Targets http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/carmakers-count-down-to-green-car-targets/ http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/carmakers-count-down-to-green-car-targets/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:32:42 +0000 admin http://greencarr.org/?p=55 By Soyoung Kim and Helen Massy-Bereford
Reuters.com
September 16, 2009

Reporting from this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, the authors ask an important question.  “From major automakers to niche manufacturers, the race is on to get green cars on the road in the coming years, but one question lingers: after many false starts, are drivers finally ready for them?”

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]]> http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/carmakers-count-down-to-green-car-targets/feed/ 0 Jay Leno’s Green Car Challenge http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/jay-leno%e2%80%99s-green-car-challenge/ http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/jay-leno%e2%80%99s-green-car-challenge/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:25:25 +0000 admin http://greencarr.org/?p=48 480-fordbevBy Jim Motavalli
New York Times, September 14, 2009

We all know that Jay Leno is a car guy.  As Jim Motavalii points out in this feature for the New York Times, Leno is also a GREEN CAR guy!  His new weekday prime time show includes a segment called “Green Car Challenge.”  It will feature celebrity drivers wo take turns trying to best one another’s track times in a specially prepared Ford Focus-based battery car.

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]]> http://greencarr.org/2009/10/08/jay-leno%e2%80%99s-green-car-challenge/feed/ 0 Green Automobiles http://greencarr.org/2009/08/18/green-automobiles/ http://greencarr.org/2009/08/18/green-automobiles/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:51:47 +0000 admin http://greencarr.org/proof/?p=22 The love affair between Americans and their cars hasn’t come to an end.  But it is changing, and fast.  Our society is going green, and that presents us with new options in the cars we drive, the parts and production processes used to automobiles, the engines and motors used to move them down the road, even the fuels that power our vehicles.

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