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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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DOE Gives $8 Billion in Green Car Funding to Ford, Nissan and Tesla

The Department of Energy today confirmed that the initial round of low-cost loans to support development of new strains of greener, more fuel-efficient vehicles will be going to Ford, Nissan and Tesla. The announcement, made at Ford Motor Company headquarters in Dearborn by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, will see the three automakers split about $8 billion of the $25 billion total set aside by congress for this purpose under provisions of the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (ATVMLP) approved last fall. Ford is set to receive the lion's share of this financial support, with its $5.9 billion cut earmarked to cover updating and retrofitting existing plants in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio that will turn out 13...
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