Congressional officials announced today that the government plans to suspend the “cash for clunkers” program since concerns were raised that it could rapidly run out the $1 billion in rebates for new car purchases. The Transportation Department called lawmakers’ offices to alert them to the decision to suspend the program at midnight Thursday. The program [...]

The federal government’s cash-for-clunkers program has renewed the car-buying excitement into auto dealers’ showrooms during the weekend and Monday even while concerns surfaced about the complications surrounding the program and how long it will last. The program provides vouchers ranging from $3,500 to $4,500 as an incentive for consumers to turn in older vehicles to [...]

A large cargo ship equipped with 328 solar panels is now docked at the Port of Long Beach, California as a demonstration project by the port, Toyota and shipping company NYK Line. The ship is the first cargo ship to use solar power for more than just small electrical applications. The ship, the M/V Auriga [...]

In Amsterdam, the main hub of culture and business in The Netherlands, almost 40% of commuters and residents use their bicycles as their primary mode of transportation. In Utrecht, a city southeast of Amsterdam, cyclists account for around 35%. “The bicycle is the means of transport used most often in Amsterdam,” reports Bike Europe. “Between [...]

In 2008, New York City had a 35% increase in commuter cycling. A great deal of that increase was due, in part, to New York City’s Department of Transportation, which has been experimenting with innovative bicycle facilities based on European city models that work well. In the last three years, the city of New York [...]

During the first quarter of 2009, more bikes were sold in the US of A than cars and trucks. While the current recession is still negatively affecting bike sales, they didn’t fall as fast, or as hard, as automobile sales. Around 2.6 million bicycle purchases were made, compared to less than 2.5 million cars and [...]

New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, recently announced a major makeover of one of New York City’s most famous landmarks, Times Square, and area which is famous for its traffic jams. “It’s good for traffic, it’s good for businesses and we think it is going to be great deal of fun,” city transport commissioner Janet [...]

Best Buy is going to start carrying some electric bikes in a handful of its stores on the West coast. “Best Buy will be piloting electric-powered personal transportation products at some of our stores on the West Coast later this spring,” said Paula Baldwin, senior manager for Best Buy public relations. At first, e-bikes by [...]

Congress passed hike in corporate average fleet fuel economy (CAFE) in 32 years in 2007. This was a much needed regulation but it left a lot of details undefined. Basically all it stated was that CAFE would be boosted to 35 mpg by 2020, but was very vague on the specific on how we would [...]

President Obama on Leno last night and spoke about hybrid vehicles. Leno referenced the fact that Obama recently visited a plug-in hybrid factory. Obama spoke excitedly about the new hybrid vehicle technology and went on to say that the government would be investing billions into research and development in this field. Here’ the transcript from [...]