Concept car: Chrysler 200C EV
The torpedo-shaped 200C EV concept car is lovely inside and out. But its top feature is an electronic instrument panel controlled by touch, like the iPhone, used to adjust lighting, colors, entertainment and environmental functions. It even can be programmed to turn on the lights at home.
-- Associated Press
Give your wipers a rest: Scrape instead
We know scraping your windshield in the freezing cold is, well, cold, but dousing the glass with a constant stream of washer fluid and running the wipers to clear the ice and frost has downsides. Dumping all that fluid onto the windshield means you could run out when you really need it, and the excess fluid that runs onto the ground is a waste. Also, your wiper blades can become shredded and useless in no time flat if you keep trying to use them to scrape off the ice: they're soft rubber while a scraper is hard plastic.
--- Wheelbase Communications
New plant makes corn cobs into fuel
Cellulosic ethanol, the next big hope for a biofuels industry, got a boost toward mass production when a new pilot-scale biorefinery opened in South Carolina last month. Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, hopes the facility will produce 20,000 gallons of fuel each year from the corn cobs and fiber normally left behind in fields.
-- Associated Press
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