It takes the spirit of cycling to sell cars now?
What does your car say about you?
Watch out for the tyre-slashing vigilante if you phone while you drive in the UK.
Milan is to start charging vehicles entering the city based on their emissions.
The flawed presumption that murder and maiming by car is an “accident”.
Killing somebody with your car can be very traumatic.
A quarter of road traffic victims were not inside a car. Great concept.
We’ve got 10 years to avoid dangerous climate changes. At the moment, it’s not looking too great...
Car advertising takes itself down another notch.
The chemistry of road rage.
The modern automobile uses just one percent of its energy to move its occupants, the rest is used to move the big hunk of metal and glass that it is, power the gadgets, and a big chunk is simply lost as heat.
The European commission has caved in to the auto industry on new emission standards opting instead to push the use of biofuels and the placement of indicators that “tell drivers when they need to inflate their tyres or change gear”. Seriously.
Inside your car you inhale 5 times more smog than outside.
Scientists believe that there are so many idiots behind the wheel that we would all be safer if cars were driven by robots, and that’s what they’re working on. I wonder if they’ll have a “go round the block 100 times with music at loud volume” program for the sad gits who mistake those looks of pity from pedestrians for admiration.
Ad agencies in Europe draft voluntary guidelines for car advertising following fears of climate change. Nothing to get excited over.
Belgian minister for Energy Marc Verwilghen has just [got himself a giant gas-guzzling Audi Q7][1] (pdf) that emits between 282 to 326 grammes of CO2 per km. Meanwhile, Europe is trying to get emissions down to 120g/km, nice example from above. Oh yeah, and Al Gore has [the electricity bill][2] of a small village.
[1]: http://www.4x4info.be/pdf/20070228_CP_4x4info_Verwilghen_FR.pdf (Le Ministre de l'Energie s'offre un 4x4 energivore (PDF) [site language: French]) [2]: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2311302.ece (Gore faces up to inconvenient truth over his electricity bill [site language: English])
Dear Mr Winterkorn, you could actually choose not to give customers what they want, or rather what your advertising makes them want.
Maybe Belgian ministers could get off the seats of their [carbon-spewing monsters][1] and actually do something for the environment instead of worrying about [photo ops with Al Gore][2]?
[1]: http://ruedelaloi.blogspot.com/2007/02/voitures-propres-enfin-presque.html (rue de la loi: Voitures propres (enfin presque..) [site language: French]) [2]: http://lvb.net/item/4354 (Belgian ministers quarrel over Al Gore [site language: English])
Drive one day less and look how much carbon monoxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe
In the thirties, William Bushnell Stout designed the egyptian-inspired and art-deco-feeling scarab automobile.
Tell the EU to make cars more fuel-efficient.
Dates for your agenda starting October 3rd: a series of midday conferences concerning automobile pressure on the city of Brussels.
Warning: this vehicle may seriously damage your health.
Good move: Berlin, Cologne and Hannover have banned heavily polluting cars from their city centers.
Good move: Berlin, Cologne and Hannover have banned heavily polluting cars from their city centers.
After self-service bikes, self-service electric cars may hit the streets of Paris.
The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry.
The open-source hydrogen car set to change the industry.
