Seen that? - Loremo on the Edge

Filed in archive Best of on October 6, 2009

Loremo on the Edge at IfEnergy

German Loremo AG (Munich) introduced their ultra efficient car at the 76th annual Motor Show 2006 in Geneva last month, the Loremo. Geneva Motor Show Founded in 2000, this new company developed a light-weight passenger car with outstanding aerodynamics. The one, two combination of light weight and tunnel tested aerodynamics allow this car to travel 157 miles per gallon of gasoline or 1.5 l per 100km! Even with this added gas [...] Read More


Edge Battery Research at IfEnergy

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories' Advanced Energy Technologies Department conducts research focusing on converting and storing energy (batteries and fuel cells), processes to reduce the environmental impacts of energy technologies (for example, reducing the emissions of air pollutants), advanced materials to make energy use more efficient, and biological methods of environmental remediation. Their expertise ranges from electrochemistry to materials science, biology and computer science. A major goal of the Division's electrochemistry research [...] Read More


New World Hydrogen at IfEnergy

Industrialists, politicians, and environmentalists and many of us alike would like to envision a modern day Utopia where Hydrogen derived from water is the basis for our transportation fuel system. A world without man-made green house gas... as water vapor is the byproduct of directly burning hydrogen in an offtake of a standard engine and/or as water vapor is the byproduct of an electricity producing fuel cell... Sounds good to [...] Read More


More MPG Please! at carzz.org

I was just watching MotorWeek and the show previewed the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line which is expected to get about 32 MPG on the highway. Good for a small SUV. But is that good enough? If you happen to catch me eating fast food in my car... uh, I mean, performing regularly scheduled maintenance, you'll be privy to me praising the car. It's a 1998 Saab 900s and still [...] Read More


Edge Edging Up at carzz.org

Ford sales are down but the Edge keeps edging up, so the automaker's empty suits started licking their chops to find more meat on America's top selling mid sized crossover. [...] Read More