The long standing success stories of the small car market, the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla, might be up for a rude awakening in the North American marketplace.  The threat of fuel shortages, shrink in market share, and bad automotive press have lit a fire under the engineers at General Motors and Ford.  Can Detroit build a better vehicle than Tokyo?  On paper, it seems so.
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Saturday morning kicked off the 2010 Cleveland Internation Auto Show at the I-X Center.  Vehicle manufacturers from all over filled the I-X Center with new models and concept vehicles to show off what they've been working on.  Of course there were flashy convertibles, trucks, and massive SUVs, but how many vehicles were shown for the environmentally conscious motorist?
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Moving ahead 2010?
  Sustainable Transportation for the 21st Century is your opportunity to map the steps we must take to keep us moving forward through the next 100 years.Moving Ahead 2010 will bring together the transportation and energy leaders from industry, research, government, non-profit organizations and education, to have the tough conversations and build the momentum that will foster the actions we need for our transportation energy future
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    Compressed Natral Gas (CNG) is a newly discovered way for mainstream American to fuel their vehicles.  However, government fleets have been fueling their vehicles with CNG for years.  Currently, the U.S. has roughly 1,100 CNG filling stations across the country compared to the approximately 12,000 filling stations worldwide.  CNG may be an answer to America's need for cleaner, efficient, domestically produced abundant fuel needs.
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What Is Green Truck Summit?
     The Green Truck Summit is considered the industry’s foremost educational forum on how the “green revolution” impacts vocational trucks. The Green Truck Summit is considered the industry’s foremost educational forum on how the “green revolution” impacts vocational trucks.
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    During the "Cash for Clunkers" program of the Obama Administration in 2009, car dealerships were swamped with people getting rid of their old Explorers, Windstars, and Tahoes for more fuel efficient vehicles like the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Camry.  Many of these customers simply did not believe that the American auto manufacturers had any worth-while products for sale at that point in time.  And this author believes that they were right, but not for much longer.  With market share from GM, Ford, and Chrysler being increasingly diminished over the past 15 years by Toyota, Honda, and other auto makers because of their fuel efficient vehicles, the Big Three in Detroit have been knocked on their ear.  So in true American fashion, they got up, b Read more »

          People say that trading in your old SUV for a Prius is the right move, but what if you just don't have the money to buy another vehicle?  In this tough economy, consumers need to learn ways to extend the life of their vehicle, while making them more efficient in the process.  Here are seven ways vehicle maintenance can save you green, while helping you go green.
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The 2010 Toyota Prius represents the 3rd generation of this 4-door 5-passenger hatchback introduced in 2001.  The Prius was the second mass produced hybrid-electric vehicle to be sold in the USA, with the first being the 2-passenger Honda Insight in 2000. Read more »

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presented by the  Diesel Technology Forum

Are Americans changing attitudes about energy affecting their vehicle buying decisions? How do Americans today feel about diesel and its impact on the environment? Read more »

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Earth Day Coalition's Clean Transportation Program is partnering with Clean Fuels Ohio to host this event which will assist fleet managers in designing a Green Fleet policy.

This event will occur at multiple sites throughout the state and each one will focus on practice-based solutions to fleet greening that can be achieved with little or no monetary inputs. 
Of course, we will also discuss clean technologies (hybrids, diesel retrofits, plug-ins, etc) and clean fuels
(biodiesel, cng, ehanol, etc) as well as various state & federal
level incentives and grant opportunities that can help you in financing
your efforts to go green!
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TENTATIVE AGENDA

8:00 registration
8:30 am program start
•    Program overview
•    Fleet Cleanup Technologies (e.g. “Six R’s” of Diesel Cleanup) and Green Fleet Policies
o    Including Illustrative Fleet Examples
•    Available funding sources – Overview

10:30 break – vendor time
11:15 program reconvene
•    Available funding sources – Details
•    Details of the Statewide Recognition Program criteria
•    The application process
•    Next Steps – Follow Up Support to Develop Specific “Green Fleet” Plans

12:15 program completion, vendor time “ride and drive”
12:45 vendor time completion
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Online registration is now up and running!