DC Auto Show: Destiny 2000 used to be a Fiero, now it’s a solar electric
Auto Blog: EV/Plug-in , Solar , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , Green Daily , Washington DC Auto Show There is section of the DC Auto Show, called the Green Car Pavilion, that is intended to highlight alternative fuel vehicles. Before the show officially opens tomorrow, we managed to take a walk around the GCP and saw an interesting collection of vehicles parked there. One was the bright yellow ride that you see here: a 1985 Pontiac Fiero (well, so said the info sheet taped to the car, EV Album says it’s a 1986, see more details after the jump). A long time ago, certainly before the recent uptick in home electric car conversions, its gasoline guts were ripped out – professionally, of course, by Solar Electric Engineering of Santa Rosa, California – and replaced with 18 6-volt Trojan R-125 lead acid batteries and a series wound GE motor. With the conversion came a name change: from Fiero to Destiny 2000. Today, the Destiny 2000 can go 50 miles on a charge, has a top speed of 75 mph and a 0-60 time of 11.2 seconds. There was no one around to learn a bit more about the car, so in lieu of actual information, let’s imagine the fun one could have in a Fiero EV. Gallery: DC Auto Show: Destiny 2000, the Solar Fiero Continue reading DC Auto Show: Destiny 2000 used to be a Fiero, now it’s a solar electric DC Auto Show: Destiny 2000 used to be a Fiero, now it’s a solar electric originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .Car Blog Green|Car Blog Green|Car Blog Green
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Filed under: Ethanol , Legislation and Policy , USA Undeterred by the fact that ethanol is the worst type or alternative energy , the federal government is in love with corn ethanol, perhaps a bit too much. Over the years, the American farm lobby has worked and worked to get subsidies for corn growers and, more recently, ethanol producers. The result, as calculated the Environmental Working Group in a new report, is that ethanol (including made-from-corn biofuel) now receives more than three times as many federal dollars ($3 billion in 2007) than solar, wind, geothermal and other biomass combined
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Who wins federal dollars race? Ethanol does, by a long shot
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