Biofuels could be a “game changer” for both military and commercial aviation, says Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Terry Yonkers, because they’re proving to have advantages over petroleum-based jet fuels that go beyond the environment. Yonkers recently said the Air Force is working toward certifying all of its jets to fly on biofuels and Fischer-Tropsch fuels. Fischer-Tropsch […]
Concern over the potentially damaging consequences of drilling for natural gas through hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is of major concern to a few state legislatures, media sources, and environmental groups, but we’ve yet to see it linked directly as a drawback to more natural gas vehicles making it to US roads. Fracking poses little risk of […]
Plug-in electric vehicle sales are on their way to moving past 2011 results (about 17,000 last year and over 14,000 in the first five months of this year), whether or not that’s significant to auto industry analysts. Plug-in hybrid/extended range cars are continuing to take the lead, with the Chevy Volt taking back its top […]
Black Book VP, Managing Editor Ricky Beggs’ thinks electric vehicles are going to make it – through fleet acquisitions and remarketing. Some may disagree, and see consumer retail purchases eventually growing and playing a lead role in the long-term growth of EVs, but fleets are considered the actual early adopters and are getting into this […]
Swedish automaker Saab Automobile was surprisingly brought back from the dead by a purchasing group made up of Hong Kong-based renewable-energy power-plant builder National Modern Energy Holdings Ltd., which owns 51%, and Japanese investment firm Sun Investment. The first vehicle under the plan will be based on Saab’s 9-3 car and will go on sale […]