Toyota electric race car sets EV lap record at Nürburgring

Toyota’s mission in life isn’t just making wildly popular sedans for the masses. Another division, Toyota Motorsports, exists to build fast cars. Toyota announced today they just set a record lap time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for an electric vehicle. The Nürburgring (or Nürburg Ring) is a famous race track…

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Gator power: Alligator fat pitched as biodiesel

According to a C|NET News report researchers in Louisana have researched the use of “Alligator fat” to produce biodiesel.   This is yet another in a long string of researchers developing a method to convert animal fats directly into biodiesel.  Some people will go “eeewwww” over this.  While others might…

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