LA Auto Show 2007

On November 14, as the Los Angeles Auto Show kicked off to great eco fanfare, the auto industry rolled out a series of concept cars in an effort to deflect building criticism from environmental advocates.

Meanwhile, automakers continue to block tougher emissions standards in the courts, where they are locked in a longstanding legal fight to block laws passed by California and 11 other states that would regulate global warming pollution from tailpipe emissions.

Environmental and human rights advocates held a series of creative actions outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, calling attention to the wide gap between the auto industry’s words and actions. Members of the Freedom From Oil Campaign called on automakers to mass produce pollution-free, petroleum-free vehicles and will prove the viability of such technologies by performing a one-day, rapid conversion of a traditional gasoline-electric hybrid to a 100 mpg plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).

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items are from between 28 Jul 2007 & 30 Jul 2007.