BMW wants to know if your life is EV compatible?

BMW launched an app that gives conventional car drivers a hypothetical taste of electric-car living, but without the real-world hassle of range anxiety. The free BMW Evolve app is available for iPhone and Android phones and you don’t need an electric vehicle to try it out. In fact, that’s the point–the app is a little like a Tamagotchi for electric cars.

Using the app, each day you start out with a 100-mile range for your pretend EV. The app tracks your driving distance using the phone’s GPS, and lets you “get charged” at destinations that offer electric car charging to increase your range. … Continue Reading

Five steps toward Green living from Martha Stewart

When it comes to the environmentalist mantra, “reduce, reuse, recycle,” even the most mainstream of lifestyle denizens are doing it – including Martha Stewart, host of “The Martha Stewart Show” on the Hallmark Channel. How, exactly, is Martha Stewart living (green)? Here’s what she told us via email:

1) I’ve given up using bottled water in small containers. Instead, I fill a reusable, eco-friendly water container from a five-gallon container.

2) I use old newspaper for fire starters instead of throwing them away. I recycle all other paper. … Continue Reading

Eco-friendly Samsung Restore coming to Virgin Mobile

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(CNET): With Earth Day just around the corner, Sprint and Samsung are teaming up to offer the eco-friendly Samsung Restore on Virgin Mobile USA, a Sprint-owned prepaid brand. The Restore first made its debut on Sprint last June.

The messaging phone features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, Bluetooth, e-mail and texting support, Google Maps, and Virgin Navigator. It’s 4.6 inches tall by 2.1 inches wide by 0.6 inch deep and it weighs 3.7 ounces. The Restore has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen with support for 262,000 colors. … Continue Reading

8 Superfoods You Should Be Eating But You’re Probably Not

These foods make us look and feel great, so give them a try.

Sometimes we get caught up in the routine of eating the same foods over and over again. Often times it’s not that healthful eating isn’t tasty, but rather it’s the lack of variety. Adding a variety of super nutrient dense foods to our diet ensures that we’re getting the laundry list of vitamins and minerals that the body needs to thrive.

Most aspects of a healthy diet are quite obvious. We know that fruits and vegetables are healthy and processed foods are not healthy. Too much meat and fried foods are also not healthy. There are, however, those foods that we should be eating but for one reason or another we tend to overlook. Consider superfoods that you haven’t yet added to your diet along with some ideas about how to put them to work in your favorite recipes. … Continue Reading

Cars that get 40 mpg: what buyers need to know

March 7, 2011 (yahoo) – If you’re worried about rising gasoline prices, you’ll find plenty of options for fuel-efficient cars in 2011.

Five years ago, few vehicles got better than 30 miles on a gallon of gas, but vehicles that can get 40 mpg on the highway or in city driving are becoming more common, prompted by new government rules and advances in technology. Around 20 vehicles from the 2011 model year have reached this leading edge of efficiency, about triple the number in 2006, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Automakers are being forced to raise the efficiency of cars to meet tougher government standards. The average fuel efficiency of all new cars and trucks sold in 2016 will need to reach 35.5 mpg. That’s about 40 percent higher than current standards, and requirements will only get stricter. Regulators are considering requirements that could reach 62 mpg by 2025.

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