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Fuelly tracks your gas mileage.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:26:58 -0800

Fuelly tracks your gas mileage over time, helping you save fuel and expenses as you drive.

A Better Place

destrius — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:33:34 -0800

Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road. Now it's Agassi's turn. He starts off uncharacteristically nervous, stammering a bit. He's got something different, he says. A new approach. He believes it just might be possible to get the entire world off oil. For good. Point by point, gaining speed as he goes, he shares for the first time in public the ideas that will change his future—and possibly the world's. Shai Agassi plans to remake the automotive world with a new business model. Taking a cue from the way the mobile phone industry works, he wants to make electric cars cheap and even free, and then charge consumers for the electricity used, analogous to airtime charges. Batteries will be decoupled from the car and owned by his company and not the consumer. All this attempts to solve the problem of electric cars taking too long to recharge and not being able to travel longer distances. With a large-scale infrastructure of charging stations, drivers can charge their vehicle just about anywhere, and when they need extra juice they can drive up to a battery changing station to get a fully charged battery in minimal time. Software will also be a big component of the system, carefully managing the car's use of electricity to make sure it gets replaced before it runs out. So far he has two countries willing to beta-test for him, a lot of capital, a single car, but not much else to show for it.

Lee press-on car

XMLicious — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:16:25 -0800

The Tata Nano (pic) is a car that costs less new than the amount I've spent on gas during single car trips, recently announced to the auto market in India. The Chery QQ ^, successful , wide ly ex por ted, and recognized as the Hostage Taker's Vehicle of Choice by China Car Times, is the runner-up for the world's cheapest car but is still approximately twice as expensive. Yes indeed, the price of gas is not going to come back down. So much for my coast-to-coast road trips. Forbes magazine's The World's Cheapest Cars (javascript slideshow)

Maybe they're talking about the paint job

dead_ — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:25:16 -0800

A two-ton 21-mpg 8-passenger V8 Chevy Tahoe? America, meet your 2008 Green Car of the Year!

Car Bibles

Upton O'Good — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:34:32 -0800

Car Bibles: One man's comprehensive guide to oil, brakes, tires, and more.