AutoblogGreen for 12.21.07

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green

The Chicken Little's have arrived: even though there is plenty of hope for sweet electric Mustangs and the like, AutoblogGreen readers heard yesterday that CAFE will make muscle cars an "endangered species". Whatever. How much muscle does the Banks Sidewinder D-Max Type-D have? Plenty, that's how much. It just doesn't spew nasty emissions like older vehicles. Perhaps once the Mythbusters bust the electric car myth next season, all will be better.

• Corvette's chief engineer: CAFE will make muscle cars an "endangered species"
• GM skipped E85 for new LS9 V-8 to preserve low speed drivability
• European automakers are a bunch of whiners over CO₂ rules
• Banks Sidewinder D-Max Type-D runs a 7.96-seconds at 167.34-mph
• Video: President Bush signs the Energy Bill into law
• UN annouces International Conference on Biofuels
• London may abandon plan for CO₂ based congestion charge
• Mythbusters to bust myth electric cars are slow in episode next season
• Volkswagen not too happy about proposed EU CO₂ rules
• VW to add a turbo CNG option to European Passat
• Ford creates "green" labelling for Austrian market: ecosport
• President Bush explains why EPA denied California's waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions
• Reading tea leaves: Carmax says hybrid searches on the rise
• Nokia lets you monitor the emissions coming in to your car
• SciAm names X Prize Foundation the "Policy Leader of the Year"
• Earthrace captain really, um, "getting into" next biodiesel circumnavigation attempt

 

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