It was outfitted with a ship's mast and actual sails, but it had to be retired due to its petrol-guzzling infrastructure.
"We are already paying taxes to the city, on petrol and on infrastructure.
Instead of a petrol engine, with its widespread infrastructure of filling stations providing the security blanket, why not build new infrastructure to refuel cars with new, fully charged batteries?The leading proponent of this idea is Better Place.
Officials pieced together information from detainees and concluded that Mr Mohammed might have been plotting to revive plans to attack New York's infrastructure: bridges, power and petrol stations, and hotels.
But hard-pressed cities want billions of dollars in infrastructure grants and a share of petrol taxes.
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley argues that corn ethanol is not as bad as it seems: using it releases less greenhouse gas than burning petrol, he calculates, and its spread helps develop infrastructure for the much greener ethanol that should come onto the market in a few years' time.But the biofuel to watch is cellulosic ethanol.
Most of existing leak detection techniques require specialized equipment to be used, while purely software-based methods rely solely on data analysis and are very desirable since they can be deployed on petrol stations without any changes to the existing infrastructure.
Driverless cars are forecast to make up 75% of all traffic by 2040, raising the spectre not just of leagues of unemployed drivers, but also of the transformation of all the infrastructure around the job, from training to petrol stations.
He says China is well placed to introduce a new electric-car infrastructure partly because it still has relatively few petrol stations.
Very few of the hundreds of millions of vehicles out there can operate on natural gas.Presumably, there is some price ratio at which natural gas would become the preferred fuel option for drivers, but that ratio would have to be large enough to cover the cost of investment in an entirely new fuel delivery infrastructure, to parallel the one which exists for petrol.
