Microcars

Current Issue: (Daily Sundial)

28 Jun 2008

Increasing gas prices and American motorists' greater awareness of the environment's fragile state have driven up sales of cars that look as though they are related to the talking vehicles in Chevron's Techron gasoline commercials.

Cops and Contortionists Take on Smart Fortwo (Edmunds.com)

27 Jun 2008

LONDON — The Metropolitan Police here will soon begin testing an electric version of the Smart Fortwo as part of a larger field test of the Smart ED (electric drive). The battery-powered microcars will be deployed in central London and at Heathrow Airport.

Going green? Why bother? The end is near. (San Francisco Chronicle)

25 Jun 2008

It would be nice to think much of the ugliness is coming to an end. It would be lovely to imagine the era of brutal Earth-mauling technologies - coal extraction and petroleum and industrial agriculture and strip mining and clear-cutting and industrial fishing...