Subject: Automotive Technology

• Popcorn and Greenhouse Gases (non Al Gore edition)

  Hot on the heels of last night's Orange County Film Society's premier of Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car?– a documentary that makes the "compelling case: that oil companies, automakers, lawmakers, consumers and the media killed a workable solution to air pollution, global warming, soaring gas prices, dwindling oil reserves and international terrorism", according to the Weekly's film maven (and chicken and vegan pasta enthusiast) Matt Coker– comes the news that "American car

  June 28, 2006

• Electric Cars Zapped to Life?

  We began our review of Who Killed the Electric Car? by describing the funeral that opens the new documentary. In his Newsweek column, Brad Stone does the same thing--before going on to say the funeral may have been premature.

  June 22, 2006

• Weirdest Thing EVER!

  We're flipping through this morning's Los Angeles Times, waiting for Who Killed the Electric Car? director Chris Paine to call. He does, and we have a nice chat, as he's still flying high from a well-received Los Angeles Film Festival screening two nights previous. After hanging up, we go to the Weekly HQ's posh kitchen, heat up leftover chicken and vegan pasta lunch and bring it back to our desk, where we notice that the whole time we'd been talking with Paine, the paper had been open to page C

  June 26, 2006

• Rock on to Electric Car Avenue

  In yesterday's thrilling Clockwork, we shared the weirdness that ensued after we interviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? writer-director Chris Paine, when we discovered during the entire chat our Los Angeles Times was open, unbeknownst to lil' ol' us, to an Associated Press story with the headline: "Silicon Valley Races to Develop Electric Cars." The story even mentioned Paine's film. Well, the hits keep coming. The film's PR company sent out links to two other stories on recent electric-car d

  June 27, 2006

• Not to Beat a Dead Battery, But...

  We swear this will be our final electric-car post, at least until the next one, but there was one other tidbit we learned from Chris Paine, the writer-director of the excellent Who Killed the Electric Car?, which is now playing at Edwards University in Irvine. Paine, Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof and actor-director Peter Horton (who you may recall from TV's thirtysomething) were among the leasees of GM EV-1s who tried desperately to extend their leases, buy their cars outright and delay the

  June 30, 2006

• Will an Alternative Fuel Revolution Begin in Santa Ana?

  Santa Ana may find itself at the center of this country's clean-burning alternative fuel future beginning next month, when IMPCO Technologies begins manufacturing "innovative alternative fuel solutions for the North American transportation market," according to a release from IMPCO's holding company, Fuel Systems Solutions, which is also based in the county seat. In fact, the Feb. 6 launch of the FSS U.S. Automotive Alternative Fuel Division coincides with the 50th anniversary of IMPCO, which si

  January 8, 2009

• Orange, Citrusy-Smelling Burning Rubber Comes to Raceways

  Fullerton-based Yokohama Tire Corp., the North American manufacturing and marketing arm of Tokyo-based Yokohama Rubber Co., wants you to know it is "making history" today at Sebring International Raceway in Florida, where each Porsche 911 race car competing in the Patrón GT3 Challenge series event is outfitted with the world's first "eco-friendly" orange oil-infused race tire. Yokohama ADVAN® ENV-R1™ race tires were created with technology combining orange oil with natural rubber to form a n

  March 19, 2009

• Earth Tones

  August 28, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' and More

  March 27, 2008

• ¡Ask a Mexican!®

  Alcoholism among Mexicans: A blight as terrible as Carlos Mencia

  January 17, 2008

• Handymanity

  August 10, 2006

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: The Killers
  

  September 6, 2007

• Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

  May 18, 2006

• Corn Power

  How to Make and Use Biodiesel

  July 5, 2007

• Prius Drivers Have Discovered the Hybrid Car Can Take Them On an Unexpected Adventure

  April 23, 2009

• All Charged Up

  June 29, 2006

• Funeral March

  June 22, 2006

• No Blood for Wesson Oil!

  March 4, 2004

• Dude, Wheres My Electric Car!?!

  May 15, 2003

• Mr. Physics

  January 24, 2002

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  May 7, 2009

• Easy Writer: The Newbie Motorcyclist's Journey Begins

  ​Home for the summer with way too much free time on my hands after a long and miserable year at Chico State in Northern California, I quickly discovered that pretty much everyone I knew in Orange County had either moved away or moved on. I needed a hobby I could do by myself in my free time that isn't associated with hairy palms or blindness. After considering all the summer recreation standards--becoming a beach bum, working out, starting a meth lab, drinking myself into oblivion, founding a

  July 27, 2009

• OC Auto Show

  October 15, 2009

• Police Will Haunt Drunk Drivers on Halloween

  Penningtron / Flickr / Creative Commons​If you're driving on Friday or Saturday, skip the candy corn martinis and stick to the virgin blood punch: The OC Sheriff's Department says it'll be cracking down on drunk driving this weekend. The statewide "Avoid the 12" program will be in effect. That means there'll be extra DUI patrols on the road, and even cops on regular duty will be looking to prevent drunk-driving-related accidents.There's good cause for a crackdown, says the OCSD press release:A

  October 30, 2009