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California Mandates Cooler Cars to Fight Global Warming

It's not quite what you think. But the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has just passed the first legislation requiring solar-efficient glass to be used in all new cars sold in that state starting in 2012. Beyond literally keeping occupants cooler in the summer, the coincident reduction in the use of air conditioning will help improve average fuel economy and decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. This new regulation will be enacted using a two-stage roll. From 2012-2015, all vehicle glass must be capable of rejecting at least 45 percent of the sun's total heat-producing energy, except for the windshield which will have a 50 percent rejection requirement. Starting in 2016, the numbers will rise to 60 percent all around. CARB data...
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Street Seen: Chevrolet Volt Makes First Pre-Production Appearance

The financial travails of its parent company notwithstanding, Chevrolet continues to push on and move ahead in the development of its new Volt Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV). The first pre-production variant of this sleek, plug-in four-door made its formal public debut this week on the roads surrounding its point of origin: GM's Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Completed a week ahead of schedule, Integration Vehicle Engineering Release No. 1 received its initial shakedown run courtesy of Andrew Farah, chief engineer on the $1 billion Volt program. Farah chronicled his experience on GM's FastLane blog, which also contains a short video of the car in action. According to Farah, this otherwise uneventful outing did disclose a number of...
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