Your Greeness

Many people, in the effort of saving money, are actually choosing to fill up their cars with E85 ethanol. Why not right? E85 is cheaper than normal gasoline. But is E85 good for our environment?

Unfortunately E85 isn’t very good for Mother Earth at all. It doesn’t burn cleanly, and produces toxins when burned. Also, E85 is made from corn. It seems to be unethical to destroy perfectly good food to produce cheap fuel when in fact many people don’t even have enough to eat! Thirdly, E85 just looks cheaper but actually, it contains a good percentage of less energy compared to gasoline, so you actually get less mileage!

It is important to consider all the aspects of something before using it. Sometimes, things are cheaper for a reason. Hopefully, this article will make you stop and think before sing E85!

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Rumors have been circulating for some time that the Prius, the best-selling hybrid vehicles from Toyota, to become a brand in itself. Toyota envisions the Prius marquee to encompass a whole lineup of hybrid vehicles. They will use a distinctive styling that will make these vehicles stand out from the rest by “yelling” loudly about the vehicle’s green qualifications. But lest you become too excited about this development, this brand is most likely seen to enter the market only in 2010. Speculation is, the Prius will launch its brand with three main models to carry the line.

The Prius might be one of the top selling hybrid cars in the market today but with a lot of automakers gearing to push this segment with innovative ideas and new technologies, the brand might find itself in difficult straits. In addition, the hybrid option is becoming common in many vehicle lineups so the move to separate Prius from Toyota may not be a feasible idea over the long term.

On the other hand, the opposite may also be true. With the Prius name being as established as it is in the hybrid industry, it may give Toyota a head start in this market. Moreover, as the hybrids become common, having a specialized and separate brand may just work in Toyota’s favor. They will be able to focus on the development as well as the marketing of the Prius brand a lot better.

However, despite all the advantages that is expected to be derived from this move, a lot of speculators don’t believe that there is a great merit in establishing Prius as a separate brand. With Toyota’s capacity to manufacture their vehicles in a limited amount of development time, this move may just be the right one for them and only time will tell if it is effective or not.

Go to any motor show today and you will inevitably see signs of the industry’s rush to go green. When you see everyone scrambling to join the green bandwagon, you definitely know that something is up. With Honda, their green credential is a lot more convincing because of their long history of using their engineering resources to reduce emission and boost fuel consumption.

For example, even during the 1970’s when no one bothered to improve the inefficient and heavy anti-smog gear to meet the US emission standard, Honda developed the CVCC; this is a lean and small burn machine that burned more efficiently. Its philosophy was carried over to the i-VTEC engine which is still being used today.

Honda Cell Fuel Program

Apparently, you can expect Honda to look beyond conventional engines. It has seized the opportunity to introduce the FCX Clarity, its first cell fuel car. Being on its initial stages, the Clarity will only be leased to selected users in California at the price of $600 per month. According to Sachito Fujimoto, the goal of Honda is to offer “sustainable mobility”; Honda believes that the fuel cell is a great way to achieve this although they hope that their fuel cell cars will duplicate the success of the Toyota Hybrids.

But the challenge that faces green car manufacturers today is convincing drivers to let go of the internal combustion engines and embrace the fuel cell technology. Fujimoto believes that the best way to achieve this is to catch the drivers’ attention and make the drivers aware of the car’s benefits. In other word, they need to make these green cars look cool. It also doesn’t hurt that there are fundamental advantages of using hydrogen as the car fuel. Catching the attention of the gadget lovers will enable the company to penetrate the market as the rest of the drivers follow suit.