GM has turned a corner, and the company is improving its performance at many levels from water stewardship, its supply chain management and overall design process.
RelayRides allows car owners to loan out their cars and score some extra cash in San Francisco and Boston. Investors have pitched in $15 million so far this year.
Will Volkswagen, Ford Motor Corp., and General Motors (GM) become new clean energy investors to the tune of Google? I discuss on The Guardian.
A 516-kilowatt solar array at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant will generate enough electricity to charge 150 Chevrolet Volts daily, or over 54,000 a year.
Remember all those booms during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis? General Motors has engaged in a project that to date collected at least 100 miles of the filthy, oil-soaked plastic booms, recycling them for one of its newest automobile models.
I realize that defending Toyota in February 2010 is like defending Richard Nixon in August 1974, but I’m about to do something that will make me about as popular at a Green Drinks gathering as a big juicy Costco steak. I’m going to cut Toyota some slack. I have not followed this story [...]
Maybe I’m just bitter because I (finally, it took me 3 years) just watched the documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, but I’m dubious about the Cash for Clunker scheme, which the Obama Administration and Congress has extended because of its crazy success. (more…)