Image: LG Chem The Supply Chain for Electric Cars is Growing About 6 months ago we wrote that LG Chem was thinking about building an advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, to supply battery packs to GM for the Volt PHEV. Now it’s... 

Photo via MotorTrend VW’s 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements — Porsche’s first ever plug-in hybrid , a new Aud… Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest here:  Test... 

Photo: Public domain Other Truck Fleets, Pay Attention Did you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004-2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions... 

Trinity College, Dublin TreeHugger loves Product Service Systems , where you borrow and share instead of own. They are also called libraries, and Kris De Decker of No-Tech Magazine points us to a lovely post by Brian Kaller, a former newspaper reporter... 

Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Gary Lauder on the Social and Environmental Impact of Stop Signs and Roundabouts (Video)  Read More →

Source: Merkley and Partners This Sunday nestled among the tributes to Hollywood’s brightest stars during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards , Mercedes-Benz USA will unveil a new ad campaign called “Tree of Innovation” which stars the S400... 

Photo: Flickr , CC Relatively Fewer Car Trips Data from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) for 2009 contains some encouraging transportation trends when compared to the previous survey done in 2001. It shows that the share of trips that Americans... 

Image: Best Wokrplaces for Commuters Employers Should Make it Easy to Have a Green Commute Yesterday, I wrote about how we need to make our society less auto-centric . This can’t be achieved without collaboration from employers, since most people’s... 

Image via Jalopnik The biggest surprise from Volkswagen’s preview show on the eve of the Geneva Auto show was without a doubt the new plug-in electric hybrid Porsche concept car. Called the 918 Sypder, the stunning ride can allegedly get 78 miles... 

photo via Flickr Many are skeptical that Carbon Capture and Sequestration is a solution to climate change. The argument goes that coal can never be clean, and the costs and risks of storing carbon pollution deep underground makes CCS a false solution....