SamTrans and VTA launch zero-emission bus program.(California)(San Mateo County Transit...

Seven years ago, the carbon fiber flywheels that Pentadyne Power Corp. now sells to produce electricity for backup generators had a different application. They propelled the world's first turbine-flywheel powered car around a race track. But sluggish demand for alternative-fuel vehicles, and safety challenges caused the Chatsworth firm to use ......

Hartford will have New England's first fuel cell-powered transit bus by early next year - and breathe easier because of it. The Greater Hartford Transit District recently announced that it has contracted with UTC Power of South Windsor for the company and its partners to provide a 40-foot hybrid electric ......

Cleaner fuels resulting from partnership of government Automobiles. Those objects of desire and the single largest source of poisons in the atmosphere. We steadfastly refuse to live without them but we're rapidly approaching a frightening realization. If we maintain our status quo in the way we engineer our cars and ......

The California Secure Transportation Energy Partnership (CalSTEP), a partnership of industry, government, academic and non profit leaders, recently recommended a number of measures which could help the state achieve a "near-term and meaningful displacement of fossil fuels." The partnership calls for increasing the blending of such renewable fuels as biodiesel, ......

Diesel fuel is under siege these days as prices have spiked sharply in recent months and local environmentalists and legislators are moving to curtail use of the pollution-causing fuel. The latest blow came last week when the L.A. City Council approved a motion by Councilman Mike Feuer mandating that Browning-Ferris ......

Ballard Power Systems and XCELLSIS Fuel Cell Engines Inc. said that they have concluded their fuel cell bus demonstration program with TransLink and their plans for the next stage of field trials of the pre-commercial fuel cell bus engines with the SunLine Transit Agency in Palm Springs, CA and Alameda-Contra ......

As a journalist, I´ve been covering data from the MoneyTree Report since it was created in 1995. Wiith each quarterly report, the information gets richer and richer, not only as a bellwether of the state of venture investing, but as a good source of "due diligence" for the entrepreneur trying ......

TiE Institute is hosting a workshop on Starting Your Company - Legal Issues and Watchouts in Santa Clara, CA on March 12 from 6 P.M. to 10 P.M. The program will cover critical formation, founder, capitalization and financing-related issues for startups incuding......

The following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Roger McNamee at the Software 2005 conference in Santa Clara, CA on April 27, 2005: "I´m here today to talk about life . . . to talk about making the most of your life in a time I call the New ......

I love the new Volkswagen Jetta commercial with the slogan "Safety Happens". Two guys are riding along yacking. You have no clue what the commercial is about or what the point is. Suddenly they slam into a pickup truck and the airbags deploy. In the closing scene, the two guys ......