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Green Gal of the Week: Charlize Theron

Believe it or not, gold and diamonds are not the most precious materials exported out of South Africa. No, that title goes to this week’s Green Gal of the Week—Charlize Theron. See more details

Green Gal of the Week: Gwyneth Paltrow

This installment of Green Gal of the Week features one of our favorite celebrity hippies, Gwyneth Paltrow. Now, being born into Hollywood royalty, raised on both coasts, schooled in the finest institutions, a super-successful movie career and a rock star husband means that she can drive whatever s See more details

Green Gal of the Week (more or less)

Welcome to the newest installment here at Discover Hybrid Cars—Green Gal of the Week (more or less). Why the qualifier you ask? Because, as Bukowski said, “My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” Translation: we mean well, we’re just easily distracted and prone to lethargy. And, just See more details

Green Gal of the Week: Susan Sarandon

As promised last week, we’ve got our new Green Gal of the Week segment up and running—Enjoy! Newly single, (sorry Tim), with a penchant for younger men (sorry Tim), well endowed (sorry Tim) and strapped into a Toyota Prius, this week’s Green Gal of the Week is Susan Sarandon. See more details

Top 5 Hybrid Driving Hotties

Okay, so Discover Hybrid Cars is starting to look more like Discover Hybrid Girls, but hey, we love girls. And, we especially love skinny, hippy-ish girls who are hell-bent on saving the planet. And if these girls happen to be adorable celebrity types bumping around in hemp clothing and hybrids, t See more details

5 Treehuggers We Want to Hug

Saving the planet can be so tiresome, so it’s nice to know that you’re not alone in your green endeavors. Since green is the new chic, there are many high-profile celebrities helping shoulder the burdens of being green. Today we salute these comrades in arms, or rather, comrades into whose arm See more details

5 Hot Chicks Guaranteed to Charge Your Hybrid Batteries

In what’s shaping up to be an installment series on ways to keep your hybrid batteries juiced, here’s the latest method: Women. Just the sight of certain women—especially those of the beautiful, sexy, curvaceous celebrity variety—is enough to get any red-blooded American’s motor running; See more details

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100 MPGs Could Get You 10 Million USDs

Tuesday, 13 April 2010 16:10 Keen & Green Hybrid Car News
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Looks like the X-PRIZE Foundation is at it again. This time it seeks to award $10,000,000 for a super-fuel efficient vehicle. To further ideas and designs for realistic, safe, affordable fuel-efficient vehicles, the Automotive X-PRIZE seeks to do for vehicle travel what the Ansari X-PRIZE did for space travel.

By offering up $10 mil, the X-PRIZE is out to “leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary innovation to bring about breakthroughs that benefit us all.” Well, 10 million smackers should do it.

Sponsored by Progressive Insurance, the Automotive X-PRIZE competition is passed the qualifying stages (teams must pass a series of rigorous reviews of their business plans and technical specs) and onto the fun part—the track. From the end of April to September, the 41 teams will gradually be eliminated and whittled down to the one $10,000,000 dollar winner.

Unlike the X-PRIZE for space, the Automotive X-PRIZE promises something more tangible to the general public in the form of super fuel efficient automobiles. We here at Discover Hybrids are damn excited to see what comes out of this year’s competition—stay tuned for the updates.

 

Green Gal of the Week (more or less)

Friday, 09 April 2010 18:05 Keen & Green Green Gals

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Welcome to the newest installment here at Discover Hybrid Cars—Green Gal of the Week (more or less). Why the qualifier you ask? Because, as Bukowski said, “My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” Translation: we mean well, we’re just easily distracted and prone to lethargy.

And, just to keep you titillated, this week we’re merely announcing the new installment series, as we don’t really have a Green Gal to award this week, or an award to give her. So, while our interns furiously scour the warehouse for prizes, our crack reporter is out and about trying to locate some gals worthy of the award. Stay Tuned.

 

VW = MC Fun: Fun Theory Award Winner

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 20:07 Keen & Green Hybrid Car News

VW Sweden has awarded the winner for their Fun Theory viral video campaign, and the winner is, not surprisingly, as coated in sticky-hippy sensibilities as the contest organizers themselves.

Now, save for our token right-leaning intern, the staff here at Discover Hybrids loves sticky-hippy sensibilities. Of course, we like ‘em best when they’re stuck on skinny hippy celebrity girls with flowers in their hair and patchouli in their pockets. But we digress.

The Fun Theory, as it states on their site, “is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better.” Not a bad premise. And, judging by the amount of attention this campaign garnered, it’s not a bad way for VW to align themselves with the green side of things.

The above video, The Speed Camera Lottery, is the winner. Go here to check out the other entries and the Fun Theory campaign.

 

Microsoft & Ford Team to Make Bigger, Scarier Company

Thursday, 01 April 2010 15:27 Keen & Green Hybrid Car News
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Who knew that plugging in an electric car could double your household's energy consumption? Looks like Microsoft did. So they’ve teamed up with their old cronies at the Blue Oval (see the Ford Sync) to sell us on their solution, Microsoft Hohm.

Microsoft Hohm, a web based application out since last July, lets you analyze how much energy your home sucks every day; in hopes that if you can track it, you can reduce it. By teaming with Ford, the dynamic duo plans to help consumers “automatically manage recharging their vehicles.”

Sounds harmless, even helpful, until you read this curious announcement on the same site: “Today, we’ve announced the infusion of Microsoft Hohm’s technology into Ford’s aggressive global electrification strategy.” Aggressive global electrification strategy? Someone call Spiderman—Electro’s on the loose!

 

Update: Audi E-Tron

Monday, 29 March 2010 16:32 Keen & Green Hybrid Car News
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Back in January we brought you news of the new Audi E-Tron as it was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Meltdown Show. Well, just to prove that this Ingolstadt circuit breaker is for real and not another non-operational car-show art-project trucked in for the big show, we’ve got one on video.

The video is brought to us by Dan NeilThe LA Times’ (soon to be The Wall Street Journal’s) Pulitzer Prizewinning auto journalist, via YouTube. Though it doesn’t show Neil flogging the all-electric Tron car (on the roads or with his usual offbeat criticisms), it does prove that the full electrics are coming—whether we can afford them or not.

 


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