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OPEC president Chakib Khelil believes that the already staggering estimation for a barrel of oil could continue to rise. Citing the depressed value of the U.S. dollar, Khelil says that investors are likely to continue to area their bets on oil, a necessary commodity. accompanying current prices hovering around $120 per barrel of dino-juice, the sixty percent grow mentioned at OPEC’s ruling man would area the going-cost darn near $200 a barrel. Those of us existing in the U.S. (Read the full post about ‘OPEC: Oil prices could continue to rise’…)

obtain ready for some crazy abbreviations here. combination country Electric Cooperative (URE) will debut Ohio’s first plug-in mule electric carriage (PHEV) forward May 3 in Marysville. Created forward the Ohio country Electric Cooperatives (OREC) and mule Plus in Boulder, Colorado, Plug-In 1 is a converted stream shun mule. The stock nickel metal hydride battery has been yanked in favor of a fresh lithium ion age that contains 1,600 separate cells that add up to 12 kWhs of magnitude. (Read the full post about ‘Plug-In 1: Ohio gets its first PHEV’…)

click protection clutch to enlargeThe democracy of Turkey was founded in 1923. If you reflect this has nothing to do with virid cars, you’re mainly right. Today, though, it does, if alone as someone (or a group of someones) has hacked into the information division of Porsche’s forensic reconsider website and placed a few messages in ottoman stating that the site has been hacked. I don’t peruse ottoman, thus I’m not certain what the hack says, exactly, but it doesn’t seem to exist the alone time 1923Turk has struck. (Read the full post about ‘Hacked! Porsche’s lawsuit against London website taken over by 1923Turk - or something’…)

Car makers the universe over are looking for the most expense effective ways to grow firing frugality like firing prices remain to climb and CO2 limits and firing frugality standards come into power. One come that seems to subsist appealing to most is adding direct firing enema and turbocharging to smaller displacement engines. Continental Automotive Systems sees the trend and is jumping ward the bandwagon. Continental has announced their intention to construct their foremost turbocharger plant for produce begining in 2011. (Read the full post about ‘Continental jumps into turbocharger business’…)

Upstart lithium battery god A123 is a exercise in how fast things can move in the battery space. The MIT Technology Review has a record, An Electrifying Startup, in its May/June issue recounting the story. Founded in late 2001, small amounts of funding direct to technological breakthroughs forward mid-2002. forward 2003 Black & Decker was interested in powering its fresh stripe of cordless efficacy tools accompanying A123’s fresh lithium cocktail, and product was rolling against assembly lines in Asia forward 2005. (Read the full post about ‘A123: History and Progress’…)

They’re doing it again. person out there has approach up accompanying nevertheless another rendering of what the novel electric Isetta from BMW strength gaze like. In contrast to the other ones we’ve shown you, this looks more like the BMW of today rather than the Isetta of yesteryear. The fancy speculative pulling appeared up AUTOCAR.co.uk longitudinally accompanying conjecture that the city car could subsist powered at a rear-mounted petrol (or perhaps diesel) implement in addition to the battery model. (Read the full post about ‘New rendering of electric BMW Isetta’…)

Pennsylvanians who want to receive one of the easiest potential steps to render carriage emissions, congestion and firing employment (I’m talking encircling carpooling here) are getting a push from the Pennsylvania part of Environmental security. The PA DEP’s is promoting a summer-long “distribute the Ride defy” that targets Susquehanna dell commuters. The defy starts tomorrow and officially continues through September 30 and asks nation to carpool or employment public transportation at minutest ten seasons in those 22 weeks. (Read the full post about ‘Pennsylvania commuters can win free gas for carpooling and taking the bus’…)

Smart has been field testing a squadron of battery-powered ForTwo ED models in Britain for distinct months. Now Auto Motor und Sport out of Germany is reporting that an updated rendering could arise testing in the U.S. like seasonable like 2009. The current pattern uses tall temperature sodium-nickel-chloride Zebra batteries. The fresh generation will twig to a lithium ion age and could subsist tried in the Los Angeles area. (Read the full post about ‘Smart could start testing lithium ion ForTwo in 2009, possibly in LA’…)