http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/8376 en_GB_uk OneWorld UK - UK/English/OneWorld UK/Get involved/Blogs/Carbon Countdown/carbon blogs/Getting Down to Detail/Taming the car Free at last http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76410 from ecolocal blog: From now on, all cars in the European Union can be recycled for free. Don't let your groundhog drive your hybrid http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76421 from GroovyGreen: How to get more miles out of your hybrid (or any other car for that matter). Image: Bill Murray and his groundhog 'New, improved' electric car for London http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76348 from The Energy Blog: The new, improved performance G-Wiz AC drive electric car from GoinGreen is now available for sale in London. Image: G-Wiz electric car New concept for modular vehicle http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76222 from What's Next In Science & Technology: The advantages of a train and a bus are united in the AutoTram. Image: The AutoTram Pedal powered recreational vehicle http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75985 from AutoblogGreen: A little crazy but it doesn't consume any fossil fuels and the only CO2 emissions come from the pedaler. Image: This RV is a thing of beauty Car emissions and ads: make the small print bigger http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75330 from Treehugger blog: Colin Challen MP thinks that a quarter of the space in car ads should be given over to environmental impact data. Image: Colin Challen MP A day at the seaside... without fossil fuel http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75038 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog: 'There is something rather special about happy days out in which the only CO2 you add to the atmosphere is from your respiration.' Image: No fossil fuel; just picnic E-bike with fuel cells http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74960 from Hugg: The latest generation muscle-powered, 3-wheel electro bicycle with fuel cells. Image: E-bikes Plug-in hybrid diesels http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74961 from The Energy Blog: Diesels are 30% more efficient than petrol engines. So they are 'the best medium-to long-term solution for our dependence on foreign oil and our transportation accelerated global warming'. No pollution with midi-bus http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74963 from blog: A German-based company has developed a hybrid fuel cell powertrain that includes a battery pack and have installed into the first of a series of buses. Image: The Proton midi-bus WhizzGo in York http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74904 from autobloggreen: The latest car share scheme to hit UK cities has started up in York. Image: Going Whizz in a shared car Seems too good to be true... http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74674 from sustainablog: A Texas company has patented a new ceramic electrical storage device that can power a car for 500 miles on a $9 charge of electricity. Neutralise your car's carbon - with BP http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74163 from Green Car Congress: "The [independently-monitored BP] scheme should help raise awareness of the links between driving and climate change," claims Jonathon Porritt, director of Forum for the Future. Going on a low-car diet http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73894 from Wheel Revolution blog: Portland luminaries dropped their car keys in a lock box and committed to using alternative forms of transportation for a month... Congestion charge success in Stockholm http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73868 from TerraBlog: First London and now Stockholm. 'Perhaps the most appealing aspect of these schemes is that they appear to work.'