Forgive me if I am somewhat sceptical about anything the established motor industry comes up with in this regard.
Allow me to suggest a few design guidelines to follow in any "transform the car" exercise: 1. Don't worry too much about unit-specific emissions or fuel consumption - within reason. 2. Design for the right uses (I've called them farming, firefighting, and fun), and appropriately to the consequent intensity of use. Don't try to adapt the car even better to the wrong uses, i.e. daily commuting and running urban errands. 3. Design for durability, which means fixability, which means tamperability. 4. Design for small-scale, low-volume, diversified, local manufacture, for stimulating the development of skills in communities, and for making the best use of the labour, imagination, and creativity of free people. Best regards -Dawie ----- Original Message ---- From: AltEnergyNetwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Saturday, 13 October, 2007 12:29:51 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Re-inventing the 3 wheel Re-inventing the 3 wheel Behind the offerings is the growing view among Japanese automakers that more must be done to fight the image of cars as culprits of pollution, global warming and traffic accidents. Their answer: Transform the car into a friendly companion - not just a machine for getting around. http://blog.alternate-energy.net/entries/entry_22.php Get your daily alternative energy news Alternate Energy Resource Network 1000+ news sources-resources updated daily http://www.alternate-energy.net News Blog http://blog.alternate-energy.net/index.php Next_Generation_Grid http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/next_generation_grid Alternative_Energy_Politics http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Energy_Politics Tomorrow-energy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tomorrow-energy Earth_Rescue_International http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Earth_Rescue_International _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20071015/7a6e9c23/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
