Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Green Blog: On Our Radar: Toyota Retrenches on Electric Cars

Toyota scraps plans for wide sales of a new all-electric minicar, saying that it had misread the market and the ability of battery technology to satisfy consumers. Now it plans to sell only about 100 battery-powered eQ vehicles in the United States and Japan. [Reuters]

A plus for the Obama campaign? Eighty percent of likely voters who remain undecided believe that global warming is happening, while only 3 percent say it is not happening, a new survey shows. Two out of three undecided voters say that if it is happening, it is mostly human-caused. [Yale Project on Climate Change Communication]

The main satellite used for monitoring the weather in eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean is switched to standby mode and a backup is enlisted after the satellite experiences increasing interference. The event may offer a taste of what lies ahead as satellites age and the nation puts off investing in a new generation of them. [Climate Central]

Who is the greenest character on television? [Grist]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/on-our-radar-toyota-retrenches-on-electric-cars/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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