In 1994, Mr Uchiyamada joined Toyota's project to develop an eco-friendly car for the 21st century.
So far, eco-friendly car buying in America has been driven not by any revolution of taste but by necessity either legislation mandating that cars reduce or eliminate emissions, or external economic factors like the price of petrol.
And depending on what kind of fuel powers that grid ultimately decides how environmentally-friendly the car actually is.
First he made the Tesla roadster, an eco-friendly electric car for the ultra-rich speed-freak, then he set to work as CEO of a private space company.
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An eco-friendly hybrid car, a gas-guzzling high-performance motor or would he stick with the greenest and most reliable form of transport on offer - his feet?
Mr Richardson admits that selling the idea of environmentally-friendly public transport to car-happy New Mexicans was not easy at first.
Owners also can earn awards for safe and eco-friendly driving viewable on Car Care Web should they rank high enough among their fellow UVO eServices owners.
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Clean Energy is also pursuing car-friendly CNG-dispensing services, and has signed an agreement with Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to provide market access to all state and local government bodies.
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Early one morning, I joined her and a few dozen others for a six-mile bicycle ride promoting the city's new bike-sharing program yes, in this oil-guzzling, no-zoning-laws sprawl of some 600 car-friendly square miles.
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R-LINK is a straightforward, user-friendly interface that covers all the car's functions and data.
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Unsurprisingly, a car as passenger-friendly as the LS 430 does not stint when it comes to safety.
So is it really more environmentally friendly to buy a new hybrid car to replace your perfectly good 5-year-old gasoline-powered vehicle?
Starting out in a tiny office not far from Dalal Street where the BSE is situated, they took three years--Shah wrote the product specifications, and Neralla the software code--to develop a robust software package that was user friendly enough to run on a car battery, a nifty feature in a power-scarce country.
He begins a sales pitch the way most car salesmen do, with friendly chitchat.
Take GPS, add Bluetooth, season to taste you've got yourself a fine car navigation system that gets friendly with your phone to provide both voice and data connectivity.
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One mile from town by car or on foot is a family-friendly beach lined with colourful beach huts and backed by dunes and pine woodland.
But options for would-be electric car owners are fast expanding, and Ford is about to tap into the growing greener car market with a trio of environmentally-friendly cars, including an all-electric vehicle!
Pate was turned away from the compound Monday, but when he returned a day later with a transcript of his interview with the Freemen a year ago, he said group members were "friendly" and took him to the ranch in a car.
Several additional badges also adorn the car to help distinguish it as being eco-friendly.
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But Irving Mintzer, an economist, worries that the rush to new electric-car technologies could leave us dependent on other not-so-friendly parts of the world for critical materials.
He lightly stroked the hood, then stroked it again, as if it were not a car but an old horse, tied to a fence and given a friendly pat to indicate that the wait would not be long.
It consists of five eco-friendly products made from plant oils: organic glass cleaner, brake dust shield, hydrophobic car wash, tire shine and wheel cleaner.
By comparison, many of the hybrid and plug-in models making the Greenest Car list this year are practical enough to be everyday drivers, including two family friendly station wagons, the Toyota Prius v and Ford C-Max Hybrid.
The most user-friendly and secure way to enable this is by embedding a SIM card and a communication module inside the car.
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