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		<title>Charge Your Car While You Eat at McDonalds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[McDonalds hasn’t decided to start selling gas, especially with the nasty economy. But the company is thinking about your car. Actually I bet McDonalds is considering ways to determine how to get you to spend as much time as possible inside their restaurants. How will they do that? Well it looks like while you eat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volvo Fuel Cell Technology Creates 100 New Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volvo is shifting into high gear for their fuel cell technology venture, possibly creating additional jobs in Stockholm if everything goes according to plan. Swedish Energy Agency and the Volvo Group are investing SEK 200 M in Volvo’s development of fuel cells. The investment will create around 100 new positions in the Gothenburg region within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golf Cart Runs on Cow&#8230; Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Golf Cart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamaha]]></category>

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That&#8217;s right, a golf cart seems to be able to run on cow dung. There&#8217;s no error here. The guys over at Yamaha have turned the dung into biomethane which can actually power the cart. Don&#8217;t worry, you won&#8217;t have to grow your own cows in order to power your favorite small car since all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New World Record: Wind-Powered Car Hits 126 Mph</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might not be the prettiest car you&#8217;ve seen lately but it&#8217;s certainly the fastest. Sure there are plenty of cars that can go faster than 126 mph but this one is the only wind-power vehicle capable to do that. Sir Richard Jenkings drove the car in Ivanpah Lake in Nevada. With winds of only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Can Power Your Car!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concept Cars]]></category>
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Ready to go all electric on your car? What about all coffee? It looks like biofuel can be made out of any oily source which means coffee fuel might just be the thing that will power you car soon.
According to experts it takes 5-7kg of coffee grounds to make a liter of biofuel which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit Auto Show: 2010 Toyota Prius Comes with Solar Panels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 Vehicles]]></category>
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The 2010 Toyota Prius has been unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show and it does feature those solar panels we were talking about earlier. Unfortunatelly they are just an extra option you can request and their job will be to keep the temperature inside cool.
Here&#8217;s a quick specs list for the new Toyota Prius:
From a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formula AE Car to Run on Solar and Wind Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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Move over Toyota, there is a new car in the works and it is going to run on Solar and Wind Power. Prior to rumors that Toyota would unveil such a car, it looks like another company has jumped the gun and taken over from Toyota Motors. 
RORMaxx Automotive is developing a car that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit Auto Show: 2010 Toyota Prius to Arrive Tomorrow</title>
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		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/detroit-auto-show-2010-toyota-prius-to-arrive-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 Vehicles]]></category>
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The official announcement for the 2010 Toyota Prius should be made sometime tomorrow. However details about the car have already been leaked so why not take a look at them.
    &#8211; similar to the power of 2.4l engine &#8211; 164 hp?
    &#8211; 1.2 mil Priuses sold so far
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tesla Roadster Sport, More Power, More Money</title>
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		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/new-tesla-roadster-sport-more-power-more-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concept Cars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tesla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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Are you still raising money for your first Tesla? The company has launched a new electric car, the Tesla Roadster Sport. It comes with an extra 15% more peak power and it will get from 0 to 60 in 3.7 seconds. This Tesla comes with a hand-wound stator and increased winding density which will eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sTrike Concept Vehicle Can Get You Around Town</title>
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		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/strike-concept-vehicle-can-get-you-around-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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The vehicle in the picture here will certainly get you around town but it won&#8217;t make you look good. sTrike has been designed by Stefano Marchetto and it&#8217;s just a more complicated bicycle. That&#8217;s right, there&#8217;s no engine, no fancy stuff behind it. It has a cocoon shaped cabin which will keep you safe while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Mr. Fusion Power Your Car Today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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I&#8217;m pretty sure that every car lover out there has fantasized about using one of those Mr. Fusion that Doc Brown developed for its DeLorean. Will such a device work today? Will a car work on trash?
Thanks to a process called gasification you will be able to transform solid biomass or other carbonaceous solids into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight-Wheel Eliica Electric Cars?</title>
		<link>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/eight-wheel-eliica-electric-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concept Cars]]></category>
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A certain Dr Hiroshi Shimizu from Tokyo’s Keio University has been working on an electric car since 2003. The name of the car is Eliica and for some reason it has eight wheels. Currently there are only two cars available and they are supposed to run on lithium-ion batteries. You might also have guessed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla Needs Loan to Produce the Model S on Schedule</title>
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		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/tesla-needs-loand-to-produce-the-model-s-on-schedule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
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I am sure you&#8217;d be interested in driving one of those models made by Tesla Motors. I am thinking Model S in particular. But the car might not even be close. Tesla needs money too from the government. A whole lot of $350 million of them. Added to that Tesla wants some $200 million more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevy Volt Cost $750 Million to Develop</title>
		<link>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/chevy-volt-cost-750-million-to-develop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/chevy-volt-cost-750-million-to-develop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Vehicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevrolet]]></category>
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It&#8217;s no wonder car companies ran out of money! GM for starters, has poured no less than $750 million into developing the Chevrolet Volt. Rick Wagoner, GM&#8217;s CEO testified that the Volt is going to enter production for 2011 although it won&#8217;t be cost competitive by that time.
Well that seems to be true. GM invested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiat Phylla Seems Like a Car Only Smaller</title>
		<link>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/fiat-phylla-seems-like-a-car-only-smaller/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/fiat-phylla-seems-like-a-car-only-smaller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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It does look like a toy from IKEA designed for kids, but I can tell you this: the baby here weighs only 750kg. It is stuffed with lithium-ion batteries, which take about 4 hours to charge from a regular wall socket. Its battery pack will get you as far as 145 km before you need [...]]]></description>
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