Max Gladwell

Hilton proposes a reasonable solution to offshore drilling and the energy crisis. Where have we heard that before? By now, you’ve all seen the Paris Hilton video (heh, heh), where she responds to the McCain campaign’s desperate attempt to paint Obama as a vacant celebrity by associating him with…vacant celebrities. We Tweeted about the McCain [...]

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The California Fuel Cell Partnership releases its vision for our transition to fuel-cell vehicle commercialization. Just give them another 15 years. It seems to us like hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles is one of those revolutionary technologies, like nuclear fusion, that’s always 15 years off. Auto manufacturers have been accused of using fuel cells as legislative lip [...]

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Carlist.com reports from the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Symposium in San Jose, CA, breaking news about Tesla’s new sports compact design. Tesla Announces Sports Compact “The big news is that Tesla is also planning a sports compact car. The powertrain is in the prototype stage now, but Tesla is expecting sales of up to [...]

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Santa Monica Community College offers six courses in “Environmental Living” It’s tough to remember the last time a piece of junk mail not only didn’t frustrate us but was actually a pleasure to receive. Just minutes ago, we arrived back to the office and went through the ritual weeding of junk from non-junk. (This despite [...]

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Anticipating the infrastructure demands of electric vehicles, General Motors cozies up with utilities. Last month, GM announced it was breaking up with Big Oil. It went down like this: “We’ve had this great relationship for many years. We think we will both be a lot happier and healthier if we see less of each other.” [...]

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