Green Options

Editor’s note: A few weeks ago, we published a guest post from the Network for New Energy Choices that was critical of American automakers for promoting corn-based ethanol and flex-fuel vehicles rather than embracing more stringent CAFE standards . A week later, NNEC published its report The Rush to Ethanol: Not All Biofuels are Created Equal. We contacted General Motors to see if they’d like to respond to the post and report;

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Something tells me that General Motors is not willing to play second fiddle on next generation vehicles. Toyota pretty much slapped them upside the head with the Prius and other fuel-efficient vehicles and the Detroit automaker is taking the lesson to heart with hydrogen. GM announced earlier this week that it has moved 500 fuel-cell engineers and scientists from the laboratory side of the company into the chain of command that actually produces cars.

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Terrence Williams from UC-Davis (Team Fate) plug-in hybridI had the opportunity last week to visit General Motors' headquarters in downtown Detroit for an event with the ChallengeX program. ChallengeX is a program co-sponsored by GM and the US Department of Energy. Teams from universities across the US (and one from Canada) were given a stock Chevrolet Equinox to use as the base vehicle

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There are some encouraging trends out there recently, aren't there? Once Democrats assumed power this past January it seemed that most large corporations finally stopped fighting about environmental stewardship and instead decided to join the movement.

General Motors is one of the few American automakers to see the writing on the wall and has quickly begun adding shades of green to its future vehicles and manufacturing processes. Today's announcement, that the automaker

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