Clean, green 100 mpg muscle cars are available NOW
by ken winston caine
See the November 2007 Fast Company piece on Kansan “Johnathan Goodwin [who] can:
• “get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental,
• “cut emissions by 80%, and
• “double the horsepower.
“Does the car business have the guts to follow him?” asks Fast Company in headline type.
His bio-diesel/hydrogen/electric hybrid Hummer gets 60 mpg, has double the horsepower of a stock model, and “does zero to 60 in five seconds.”
Goodwin transforms noxious polluting, gas-hog muscle cars into super-powerful clean green machines using current technology and readily available Detroit parts.
He charges $25,000 per vehicle to manage the metamorphosis. His clientele is mainly celebreties and industry titans — the ultra-rich.
Detroit IS paying attention. But how long ’til this super-low-emission, renewable-energy, power-doubling, fuel-stingy technology is available to the rest of us?
Click this link to read Fast Company‘s fascinating article on this fascinating young eco innovator who is delivering the cars of the future, today:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html.
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April 14th, 2009 19:45
Hello, i’ve been browsing around your site and it looks really really neat. I’m building an automotive home page and struggling to make it look good, everytime I touch something I mess it up. How hard was it to build your site? Could someone like me with no experience do it, and add update pages without wrecking it every time?
April 15th, 2009 13:29
I was fortunate to find lots of help when designing and building this by visiting the various WordPress forums, posting my problems and asking what I needed to do.
Let me warn you AGAINST something I did. I took a cool, basic theme, and then highly customized it. Nothing wrong with that in theory. However, the WordPress folks update/upgrade WordPress every couple months, fixing security holes, adding features, etc. Since my installation is highly customized, with coding changed in several internal WordPress files, I can’t just do automatic, push-button upgrades when WordPress upgrades.
I’ve tried. And my site goes offline, broken, and I find and spend a few hours fixing it.
With nearly every upgrade, I have to dig into the WordPress engine and change code here and there to keep my theme working. You want to avoid that.
Best to find a theme that does almost exactly what you want it to do and that the developer is supporting and keeping current from WordPress upgrade to upgrade. And keep your customizations down to simple stylesheet things (those WON’T change when you upgrade from WordPress v.2.8764 to 2.865, for instance).
Three-column themes weren’t happening when I created this. But I had a picture in my mind of what I wanted this site to look like and forced WordPress to fit my picture.
Some really, really nice, flexible, functional themes are available now commercially for a relatively reasonable price and whose developers promoise to keep them up to date with each WordPress upgrade. That wasn’t the case when I built this site. But it’s the way I am going today with newer sites I build.
Much nicer to just upload the latest version of the theme when the developer emails you that you’ll need to, press “intall” and then press the “upgrade” button on the WordPress console and be done with things.
If you’re a code monkey (and you indicated that you are not), customizing your own design and then re-coding internal WordPress files would not be too challenging for you each time WordPress upgrades. I find it challenging, though.