Archive for the ‘Biofuels’ Category

Calling their suite of fuel-saving technology "a new world of efficiency," Volkswagen today announced a wide range of technologies and engines designed to stretch mpg on many of its vehicles. Initially, these new fuel-saving models are available only in Europe, but pending their sales success we imagine many will eventually make it stateside, especially the technologies fitted to gasoline-powered vehicles.

The systems include a new start-stop system and energy recovery by regenerative braking, electric drives and hybrid systems as well the natural gas-based drive system in the new TSI EcoFuel. By introducing these technologies, VW hopes to...

Bentley is set to reveal the "extreme Bentley" on March 3 at the Geneva Motor Show. It is to be the marque's fastest and most powerful production automobile ever. The title of the press photo you see here leads us to believe the new supercar could be named the Bentley Victoria.

Click here to view the teaser video released today; it shows the silhouette and front lights of a Bentley Continental GT. A quick shot underhood reveals twelve intake runners, presumably feeding 12 boosted cylinders in Bentley's unique W-configuration, a remnant of VW's mashup of two narrow-angle V-6s.

Bentley makes prominent mention that this new supercar will run...

"So many ethanol plants are in trouble that they're just jumping over each other to move some product," said Jim Damask, manager at Biofuelsconnect. The alternative-energy brokering company in Heathrow, Fla. explained in Detroit News that oil companies are curtailing their gasoline/ethanol blends, which have been as high as E10 (90-percent petroleum, 10-percent ethanol), due to rock-bottom prices for the alternative fuel.

Ethanol is blended with gasoline to both meet federal mandates and reserve supplies of gasoline. But ethanol contains less energy-per-volume than gasoline, lowering power and economy. And gasoline companies, on the heels...