Blogposts tagged 'Hybrid Cars'

Day Seven: The Good Stuff

Posted by graham - 26 July 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

Part of the Greenpeace Motor Show blog

After a sustained period of whinging, it's time to have a look at some of the good things on display at the motor show. Whilst most car journeys really ought to be by foot, cycle or public transport, there will be a place for private motor vehicles for quite a while yet, and if you look hard enough, the show has some useful ideas for how we can keep driving in a non-Kamikaze fashion.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, congestion charge, diesel, electric vehicles, g-wiz, goingreen, hybrid cars, mercedes, motorshow, peugeot, public transport, smart cars, transport, VED

Day Five: End of the road for SUVs

Posted by graham - 24 July 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

Part of the Greenpeace Motor Show blog

Article tagged as: 4x4s, chevrolet, climate change, emissions, hummers, hybrid cars, motor industry, motorshow, prius, transport

Day One at the Motor Show - Revisited

Posted by graham - 20 July 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

Part of the Greenpeace Motor Show blog

Apparently today is day one, and so yesterday must have been day zero, and the press launch would have been day minus one. I apologise for any confusion this may have caused.

Yesterday's interesting little factoid about SUVs brings us to the question which I intend to skirt around and eventually fail to answer in this blog - is the motor industry starting to move in the right (low emissions) direction, or is the occasional bit of good news just greenwash to keep the likes of me happy whilst everyone else gets on with the serious business of getting a bigger, shinier car than their neighbours? Motor shows are supposed to give you a feel for what the cars of the near future will look like, so what sort of future is on display at the Excel centre?

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, electric vehicles, emissions, hybrid cars, mercedes, motorshow, peugeot, traffic, transport

Yesterday a Bafta, today the world

Posted by bex - 4 April 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments

Thandie Newton in her Toyota Prius

After winning a BAFTA in February for her performance in "Crash", Thandie Newton has now set her sights even higher: on doing her bit to save the planet.

Last year, the actor found a Greenpeace leaflet stuck to the windscreen of her family's SUV. A short while later, she traded in her gas guzzling 4x4 for a fuel efficient Toyota Prius, which switches between petrol and electric to get nearly three times more miles to the gallon than her old BMW X5.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, BMW, climate change, hybrid cars, prius, thandie newton, toyota, transport
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