In January, the European Union's Emissions Trading System--the largest carbon market for greenhouse gases--plans to forcefully enroll any airline that stops in Europe. Airlines are livid and warning of increased ticket prices. But as the history of fuel-economy standards in the automobile industry shows, today's environmental obstruction is tomorrow's common sense.READ»
Using a combination of signals from all over the road, a new system takes cars a step closer to being able to automatically react to conditions in front of them.READ»
Barra, with Detroit's old GM building behind her, is the highest-ranking female executive in the company's history. | Photo by Joe Vaughn
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The Gates Foundation is bringing stronger, hardier versions of staple crops to the developing world. Do the good motives outweigh the issues with GM food?READ»
A new law in California would make it legal for Chevy Volts to use parking spots equipped with electric chargers. But does the law actually make it harder for electric car owners? READ»
Cars that communicate can solve serious problems on the road-- like traffic in dangerous conditions, rubbernecking at accidents, and EVs running out of juice. The Department of Transportation's Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge winners show us how.READ»
GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smartphone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They're almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up.READ»
In the future, electric cars will work together with the smart grid to charge at off-peak hours and put energy back into the grid when it's needed. For the first time, we're seeing this plan in action.READ»
Escaped GM salmon could breed and pass on their genes in the wild--and those genes could cause weak salmon that eventually die off. The GM salmon companies say they have a solution to keep their fish sterile, but remember: Nature finds a way.READ»
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect we look at how mining the key ingredient in electric cars could end up enriching potential enemies of America, and force another round of innovation to build an even newer kind of battery.READ»
The government-sponsored competition to build the best ultra-fuel-efficient vehicles yields both automotive innovation and the next generation of car designers.READ»
There is no good that can come of an experiment where the company behind nearly every genetically modified crop in our daily diets is allowed to decide whether its products are causing environmental harm.READ»
Meet Margie. She’s 36, married, and works as a career counselor at a professional school. With two boys, ages 7 and 10, Margie’s mornings are hectic. After a quick breakfast, she loads the boys and her gym bag in the car. From ...READ»
By the end of this year, there should be 15,000 Chevy Volts and Opel Amperas on the road, and hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't far behind. Where to power up all those electric cars? Britta Gross is working on the solution.READ»
Imagine if Apple tried to charge you every time you accidentally glanced at an iPhone on the street. That's basically the policy that Monsanto, an agriculture giant whose patented genes are in 95% of all soybeans and 80% of all corn grown in the U.S, enforces.READ»
Nokia and a long list of car and consumer electronics firms just agreed to form the Car Connectivity Consortium--a global effort to harmonize the electronic magic that will power your future car, and which would fill K.I.T.T. with envy.READ»
The iconic car company beats expectations and cuts a profit-sharing check to its employees. Are electric vehicles behind GM's revving financial engine? READ»
