Filed under: Ethanol , EV/Plug-in , Flex-Fuel , Hybrid , Ford Ford Transit Connect Taxi – Click above for high-res image gallery Ford has a long-standing reputation as a major player in the fleet vehicle segment. Just picture the Crown Vic that all-too-often pops up in your rear-view mirror with some flashing lights or the old Taurus that was a mainstay at rental lots across the nation and you’ll quickly realize that the company does a lot of fleet business. Though fleet vehicles aren’t really a segment that a company boasts about, they are vitally important for many automakers, Ford included

With President Obama scheduled to tour an ethanol plant in Macon, Missouri, the National Biodiesel Board (NBB), located less than 100 miles to the south, pleaded for the White House to help Congress finish the job on the lapsed biodiesel tax incentive and put industry employees back to work.

Filed under: Diesel , Flex-Fuel , Mazda Mazda Furai Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery It’s the rumor that just refuses to die . We’re not sure if that means there’s a whole heck of a lot of truth behind it or not, but once again we’re hearing that Mazda is hard at work on a new RX-7 sportscar. And while you might think that making such a vehicle would be as easy as adding a turbocharger to the existing Renesis-powered RX-8 and jettisoning the back seat, Mazda apparently has much more grandiose designs for its next range-topping sportscar

With the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day upon us, it is imperative that Congress move immediately to ensure the survival of America’s first advanced biofuel – biodiesel.

The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) released a letter to Congressional Leadership urging Congress to take immediate action to retroactively reinstate the biodiesel tax incentive. The NBB spearheaded this letter and was joined by several organizations representing the US biodiesel industry, fuel marketers and retailers, as well as agriculture stakeholders.

Filed under: Ethanol , Flex-Fuel , Legislation and Policy , South/Latin America In a gesture to improve biofuel trade relations with the U.S. and other countries, Brazil’s Council of Ministers of the Board of Foreign Trade (MDIC) has temporarily lifted the country’s tariff on imported ethanol, changing the tax rate from 20 percent to zero percent.