Hybrid Round Up – A Closer Look At Available Hybrid Vehicles – Video

Want 20% better gas mileage? Want to drive one of the best gas saving cars available at your local dealership? Look no further because the video below showcases all currently available hybrid vehicles that can be purchased today. Whether you love SUV’s, cars or even sports cars, you have a choice in utilizing today’s hybrid technology to ultimately save you money at the gas pump.

Enjoy! – MotorWeek’s Hybrid Round Up:

The Car of the Future

 

I could not help but share this article with everyone. After opening up my mind and realizing this is actually where we are headed. Welcome to smaller car world!

The linked article that I have chosen for today comes from Newsweek where they talk about the car of the future. Surprisingly we will not see many hydrogen powered cars on the road in the near future. Instead, we will all be downsizing utilizing new hybrid technologies such as found in the current Toyota Prius and the upcoming Chevy Volt. The Chevy Volt is a new and improved idea of the hybrid car where it does run just off of electricity but it has a very small engine that burns gas to charge the battery that powers the electric motor. Other developments will include simply making “better” hybrid vehicles and more economical “smaller” cars and cross-over SUV’s (CUV’s).

I encourage you to read the linked article below at Newsweek.com.

Newsweek Article: “The Car of the Future”

Tips to improve your gas mileage – Save Money On Gas

Tips to improve your gas mileage

  

  

Drive Sensibly

Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration and braking) wastes gas. It can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent at highway speeds and by 5 percent around town. Sensible driving is also safer for you and others, so you may save more than gas money.

	Fuel Economy Benefit:	5-33%
	Equivalent Gasoline Savings:	$0.11-$0.73/gallon

Observe the Speed Limit Gas mileage decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 mph. Each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.15 per gallon for gas. Observing the speed limit is also safer.

	Fuel Economy Benefit:	7-23%
	Equivalent Gasoline Savings:	$0.15-$0.51/gallon

  

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You can Google at the gas pump

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Lost drivers in the United States soon will be able to Google for help at the pump.

As part of a partnership to be announced Wednesday, the online search leader will dispense driving directions at thousands of gasoline pumps across the country beginning early next month.

The pumps, made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root, include an Internet connection and will display Google’s mapping service in color on a small screen.

Motorists will be able to scroll through several categories to find local landmarks, hotels, restaurants and hospitals selected by the gas station’s owner. After the driver selects a destination, the pump will print out directions.

Eventually, Gilbarco Veeder-Root hopes to enable motorists to type in a specific address and get directions.

“We think the service will create more customer loyalty for retailers,” said Gilbarco Veeder-Root spokeswoman Lucy Sackett.

Greensboro, North Carolina-based Gilbarco Veeder-Root will initially offer the Google service in about 3,500 gas pumps and expand based on retailer demand.

Unlike most of Google’s services, this one will not include ads bringing the company income. But participating retailers will be able to make extra money from other merchants that offer coupons on the service.

Ignore the airbag wars – cnn.com story

What’s important isn’t the number of airbags, it’s the type of airbags and their effect on crash scores.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com staff writer

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It used to be horsepower. Then it was fuel economy. Now there’s another number making its way into the big print in car ads: the number of airbags.

Already, Toyota is bragging about its “segment-leading” 10 airbags on the 2008 Lexus LX570 SUV. TV and magazine ads for cars and SUVs often tout the number of airbags as a competitive advantage.

The obvious implication is that a car with more airbags is safer than one with fewer. If a car has 10 airbags while its competitor has only six, you can just imagine the sorts of injuries you could suffer with four fewer bags.

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Here in my car – I have an iPhone to my ear!

 

Its my in-car navigation system. Its my personal in-car notepad. Its my in-car mp3 player… AHH NO, it’s the new iPhone inside your car. With the hyped up release of the new iPhone in few hours we all search and read about all of its features as well as all of the compatible accessories. But what about use of the iPhone in your car? Well, it is a plethora of products available as well as a invisible list of compatible Bluetooth vehicles for the new iPhone already. Listed below we have a few links to compatible accessories to couple with your new iPhone if you are one of the “lucky ones” tomorrow.

 

Bad news for those of you who have Bluetooth in your car and want to get the iPhone; they will not work together. Since the iPhone has its own Bluetooth, that is different from the universal Bluetooth we use on regular phones, the Iphone will not connect to your car Bluetooth.The good news is that you can buy a kit from Apple, or another company that has a contract with Apple, to connect your iPhone to your car. I am sure that down the road newer car models will come out with the Apple Bluetooth that connects to your iPhone. It is almost a certainty with the way the new iPhone is all hyped up. Well shall SEE and HEAR!

Accessories for the Apple iPhone (links):

 http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/the-onslaught-is-here/the-floodgates-are-open-iphone-accessories-273236.php 

http://www.everythingiphone.com/iphone-accessories/

http://www.wirefly.com/cell-phone-accessories/Cingular-Wireless/phones/Apple/iPhone-4GB/56214/