Toyota Prius tops customer survey
The Toyota Prius tops this year’s JD Power and Associates/What Car? 2008 UK Car Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) study. The Prius scored 901 points out of a possible 1000, with owners reporting particularly high satisfaction levels with the model’s quality and reliability. ‘The Prius already has iconic status because of its green credentials; now it’s [...]
Commitment to Sustainable Mobility
HERNDON, VA — Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. today launched responsiblemobility.com, a microsite focused on the company’s sustainable mobility strategy. The new microsite comes as the Group’s Audi and Volkswagen brands prepare to embark upon their 50-state clean diesel strategy, and as the Group continues work on next generation alternative energy innovations such as biofuels [...]
PlanetThoughts – Shout Out Competition
The folks over at PlanetThoughts are sponsoring Super-Cars Shout Out Competition as a way to recognize eco-conscious citizens fight against climate change by driving a high-mileage car. The concept is simple: 1. Find high mileage cars in your area. PT has a list of high-mileage cars (>40 mpg…) 2. Place the PlanetThoughts flyer on the [...]
Green Cars – A Brighter and Cleaner Future
More and more cars are on the road every day, and it is estimated that more than a billion cars will be on the roads by the year 2020. With more and more cars hitting the roads each year, many people are beginning to look for greener options for their vehicles; in fact, governments are [...]
NYC Green Car
NYC Green Car launches luxury car service using hybrid-only Camry and Lexus vehicles: Company Will Donate 10% of its Profits to NYC-Based Environmental Groups and Causes NYC Green Car, a luxury car service committed to only using hybrid vehicles, announced today that is has launched service in New York City. Although some New York car [...]
Going green – further reading
The Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Gasoline Consumption: there are plenty of things you can do to help minimize the effect of higher gasoline prices and allow you to do your part to help save the environment. Thankfully, most of these things are pretty common sense and can be integrated very easily into your [...]
Green Design sponsored by Toyota
Green Design is a series of short documentary films sponsored by Toyota Motor Europe that highlight inspiring ideas that enable us to ‘live greener’ using modern technologies. Toyota sponsors this series as part of its commitment to green technologies that can help preserve the delicate balance between man and nature.
The Nobel Peace prize for 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for [...]