Four years ago, Ford Motor Company was the first to introduce a new system to add gasoline to a vehicle without removing a cap, and now that system has spread to most of the Ford lineup. Now General Motors is announcing the introduction of a better capless fueling system on the new Cadillac XTS luxury…
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Test Drive: 2012 Honda Civic HF
Fuel Efficiency Without Hybridization. For 2012, customers have more variations of the Civic to choose from than ever before. There are five in fact: The Civic, Civic Natural Gas, Civic Hybrid, Civic Si, and the Civic HF or ?high efficiency.?…
Powering Your Car With Old Newspapers
A team of Tulane University scientists has discovered a bacterial strain, they call ?TU-103? that breaks down paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve as a substitute for gasoline. According to David Mullin, an associate professor of cell and molecular biology at Tulane, this is the first bacterial strain found to produce…
Toyota and Shell Open Hydrogen Station
Toyota Motor Sales, celebrated the opening of the first hydrogen fueling station in the U.S. fed directly from an active industrial hydrogen pipeline on May 10. Located in Torrance, Calif., next to the Toyota sales and marketing headquarters campus, the fueling station is a collaborative effort between Toyota, Air Products, Shell, South Coast Air Quality…