Saturn Aura is going to be the first hybrid GM is launching on the US market, as a direct competitor for Toyota Prius. Only in 2006, Toyota sold 107,000 Prius units, creating a big popularity of the hybrid.

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Time for our weekly Green QuestionVille round up I hope you can find some interesting questions and answers below and remember if you have a questions register today and ask, it takes 20 seconds to register Popular Questions This Week

Twiceshy asked: Using the Tides…

With all of the plans for alternative energy development, Obama’s [...]

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Wastewater treatment plants are turning to solar power to attain a significant portion of their energy needs. Millions of dollars are being saved by taxpayers and thousands more pounds of greenhouse gases are being saved from entering the atmosphere.
One of the wastewater treatment plants using solar panels is the West County Wastewater District in northern [...]

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After last year’s numerous bans on commercial and recreation salmon fishing in California and Oregon, many are concerned by the latest news. California’s Chinook populations are the lowest ever recorded to date.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council stated that only 66,264 Chinook returned to the Sacramento River basin to spawn. The number includes natural and hatchery [...]

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Right now, it does look like something that would have come out of a science fiction movie. But there is more to just how it looks. The newest solar race car that the MIT has created has got the goods that will make most owners of alternative energy vehicles drool.

The Solar Electric Vehicle Team of the university is the group behind this newest solar race car. They say that this ride can zoom by at speeds of 90 miles per hour. They had spent $243,000 on this one and they call it Eleanor. Just like the vehicle that Nicolas Cage was so afraid of in Gone in 60 Seconds? I don’t know.

But anyhow, George Hansel, one of the members of the solar team, shares, “It drives beautifully. It’s fun to drive and quite a spectacle.” They are working on the vehicle already and testing it because it is going to be taking part at the World Solar Challenge which is a 2000-mile solar race for seven days through Australia.

Source: Wired

Tags: MIT, Solar, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, solar-car, World Solar Challenge

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