Sometimes the trouble with alternative fuel is availability, despite the efforts of many organizations you cannot always find that one station you’re in dire need of. For us biodiesel drivers we find this even more frequently because of variability in biodiesel prices. When the price of biodiesel goes up (as is the case at the time of writing) retailers blend in low levels of biodiesel (B2-B20ish) and the opposite is true when biodiesel prices are...

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Lately we've been smacked with another wave of flying car news, cars that can drive on the road and fly in the sky do grab headlines. But what about flying on water? The Rinspeed Splash was a prototype car made in 2004 that can fly on water.  This prototype may be a few years old, but one look will tell you it's still ahead of the times. The Splash flies on water by utilizing a...

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending FarmFest in Morgan, MN. The event is much like a state fair with the obvious focus on farming. I went to talk to people about using our app to find E85/Biodiesel and I ran into a Ford dealer from southern MN. He was showing off the new Ford F350, B20 badging and all!     Here's a close up of the B20 badging   Ford's all new 6.7...

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Fresh off the news of the Chevy Volt's price ($41,000 but 31,500 after Fed. Tax Rebate) is one of the most anticipated car commercials of the year. So anticipated GM just announced increasing 2012 Volt production by 50% (30,000 to 45,000 units).  Enjoy the first Volt ad!  

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For those of you who didn't attend I wanted to share some of the great exhibits at the Green Drive Expo last week.  It was an awesome show... get ready to see some green cars in action- Obviously I have to start with our own booth... here it is just after setup the morning after a long drive in.   My booth neighbor was a very cool guy, Ron Hansen, president of Hybrid Battery Repair. ...

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DriveAlternatives Lite has hit iTunes and is ready for download on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The app is free and will allow you to find, retrieve directions, and update fuels/prices to the most comphrensive fuel station database on the internet. The Line did a story about the app which you can read here. This is just the begining, we are hard at work on a fully featured version of the app. Again it...

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Headquartered in the frozen tundra of Minnesota this new app find isn't targeted at us, but that doesn't matter because it's a cool idea!  If you're in NYC check out the WEEELS app, it allows you to share a taxi with others using the app. If you're near someone else grabbing a taxi and heading in the same direction WEEELS let's you know. Save some green in multiple ways. We here at DriveAlternatives are big...

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PickupTrucks.com is reporting that Global Vehicles, the US distributor for the upcoming TR20 &TR40 pickups, has filed suit against Mahindra. Global Vehicles has signed up over 350 dealers across the US and spent nearly $35 million preparing to launch the mighty Mahindra’s.  The problem is the continual delays, the TR20 & TR40 have been scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009, February 2010, and May of 2010. Every time the media has been told...

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Check out this video of Senator John Kerry calling the US the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas.  Take if from a major Washington power broker, the Gulf Oil Disaster has silenced the "Drill Baby Drill" rhetoric for sometime. The US has the world's largest reserves of Natural Gas and Senator Kerry believes it could help cure our addiction to foreign oil. This too is coming from an all but likely source. T. Boone Pickens and...

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The New York Times has reported Hertz will be renting the Nissan Leaf to consumers in 2011.  For people in the market or who are considering getting into the market for a fully electric car Hertz is providing the ultimate test drive. Renting a Nissan Leaf and giving consumers the ability to test how an electric car can work for them is an amazing opportunity to expand the market for electric cars. However, I warn...

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