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As fuel prices rise, Automotive companies are now turning their focus onto fuel efficiency. Auto manufacturers are coming out with new vehicles that are gas-electric hybrids which reduce gasoline consumption and boost miles per gallon. While that is fine for people who want new cars, others may be very happy their current vehicles and just wish they got better mileage and were kinder to the environment. APMC fills this gap by offering alternate propulsion, gas-electric hybrid conversion systems for existing vehicles.
A conversion to an alternate propulsion drive system will reduce our customer's fuel expenses, reduce harmful emissions and help reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil.
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Other benefits of owning a
hybrid vehicle:
Besides the fuel cost and the environmental improvements, there are some other perks to owning a hybrid vehicle/conversion.
Some states offer major tax deductions for owning a hybrid/EV car. Check your local tax laws to find out how much you can deduct by owning an EV. Hybrid cars are more expensive than conventional vehicles because of their costly batteries, and because there are two separate engines under each vehicle's hood. New tax credits go a long way toward closing that cost differential.
Many states allow use of the HOV lane for drivers of a hybrid vehicle, regardless of how many passengers. Another component of the Energy Policy Act is the Federal Hybrid HOV Waiver, which allows states to open their high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes to hybrid cars that get at least 50 percent better fuel efficiency in the city and 25 percent better in combined city-highway miles over conventional models. So far 12 states Including NY, NJ, and CA are participating and many others are sure to follow.
Beyond these new federal incentives, 36 states offer some kind of rebate, incentive or benefit to encourage consumers and businesses to go hybrid. Even some businesses are voluntarily getting in on the act. Search engine giant Google is offering $5,000 to each employee toward the purchase of a new hybrid. Travelers Insurance also has pledged to start giving a 10 percent discount to its auto insurance customers who drive hybrids.
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Alternative Fuel News  | Kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol | | Posted on: 2008/05/09 | | Submitted by:: | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.
E-Fuel Corp unveiled on Thursday the "MicroFueler" touting it as the world's first machine that allows homeowners to make their own ethanol and pump the brew directly into their cars.
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| Tesla Motors opens doors to the rich and famous | | Posted on: 2008/05/05 | | Submitted by:: | Tesla Motors opened its first dealership in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday, attracting a gaggle of reporters.
The location of the site in the tony Westwood neighborhood reflects the high-end shopping experience it intends to create for the flashy $109,000 Tesla Roadster. The next store, slated to open in San Carlos, Calif. in a couple months, will be set up to appeal to the Silicon Valley tech elite.
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| Siphoning off corn to fuel our cars | | Posted on: 2008/04/30 | | Submitted by:: | Across the country, ethanol plants are swallowing more and more of the nation's corn crop. This year, about a quarter of U.S. corn will go to feeding ethanol plants instead of poultry or livestock. That has helped farmers like Johnson, but it has boosted demand -- and prices -- for corn at the same time global grain demand is growing.
And it has linked food and fuel prices just as oil is rising to new records, pulling up the price of anything that can be poured into a gasoline tank. "The price of grain is now directly tied to the price of oil," says Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute, a Washington research group. "We used to have a grain economy and a fuel economy. But now they're beginning to fuse."
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| GM gets on the hybrid highway | | Posted on: 2008/04/24 | | Submitted by:: | Sales for the world's biggest automaker are puny now, but Toyota had better watch out, say some industry watchers.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Motors is far from being a market player with hybrid vehicles, but it may be in a position to deliver down the road, according to some industry analysts.
GM sold 843 hybrids of all types during the first quarter of 2008, according to the industry newspaper Automotive News. That's right: 843. There are no missing zeroes. About 655 of them were full-size GMC and Chevrolet hybrid SUVs.
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| Trees in Your Tank? The Future of Green Gasoline: Earth Day Extra | | Posted on: 2008/04/22 | | Submitted by:: | Hydrogen, ethanol and even compressed air all have the shrink-wrapped sheen of the bright, green future. But gasoline? At $1 per gallon?
Researchers at UMass Amherst recently published a new method of refining hydrocarbons from cellulose, paving the way to turn wood scraps into gasoline, diesel fuel, Tupperware—anything, essentially, that’s normally refined from petroleum. Many scientists have been working on ways to turn everything from corn stalks to tires into ethanol, sidestepping some of the problems inherent to making fuel from corn and other food products. But ethanol has a number of liabilities, regardless of the source. For instance, it requires automotive engines to be modified and contains less energy than gasoline, driving down fuel economy. |
| Kleiner Perkins venture to sell electric car in US | | Posted on: 2008/04/21 | | Submitted by:: | SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - Kleiner Perkins is joining hands with another clean technology-focused venture capital firm and a Norwegian company to bring electric cars to the United States, signaling a Silicon Valley push to make American driving greener.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Boston-based RockPort Capital Partners and electric car maker Think Global will create a new Menlo Park, California-based company called Think North America. The deal was announced on Monday at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference in Pasadena, California.
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| U.S. beat soundly on list of green automakers | | Posted on: 2008/04/21 | | Submitted by:: | Focus on biofuel at expense of hybrids helps put Americans behind curve
It may not be easy being green, but U.S. automakers no longer have a choice. Hobbled by declining sales, too reliant on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs for profits, they face a new law mandating a 40 percent increase in U.S. vehicle fuel economy standards by 2020.
They've got their work cut out for them if they want to keep up with foreign competition. By our measures, Honda was the greenest major automaker in 2007, followed by Toyota, Hyundai Kia, Volkswagen, and Nissan. Appearing at the bottom of the list: Ford Motor, General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler, in that order.
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