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China’s Spring Airlines, in an effort to handle a growing number of passengers, is considering selling standing-room tickets.

GM’s next green dream machine?OK. GM has crushed the idea of using Toyota’s hybrid technology numerous times. Nonetheless, there is another rumor out today that Toyota and GM are discussing the possibility of re-utilizing their joint NUMMI venture to rebadge Toyota Prius hybrids for GM.Regardless of the fact that I’m 99.9 percent certain such a [...]

Ooh! Ahh! Everyone loves fireworks—and everyone can learn to snap photographs that better capture their beauty.

We’ve been after you for months to start following the Twitter pages of airlines (to say nothing of, achem, following our account). You no doubt already know that LCC’s like Virgin, JetBlue and Southwest tweet deals every day and are more than worth your time. But what about the big boys? United is one of [...]

Real estate: listings of homes sold in East Bay circulation area: Contra Costa County, some Alameda, Solano

In honor of Canada Day we bring you news from the Canadian capital, where a suburban service station has become the first in the world to sell a blend of gasoline and cellulosic ethanol biofuel.
As part of a month long trial, drivers who fill up their Nissan X-Trails or Acura CSXs at a Shell station [...]

Yesterday, we told you about our ordeal trying to get out of a middle seat assignment on a long flight to Paris thanks to Orbitz’s out-of-sync seat maps, but the real culprit is the slew of new coach class “preferred,” “choice,” and “select” seats that are blocked off from assignments until the day before [...]

Tesla, the darling motorcar company of the EV set, promises to have the Model S sedan on the road by 2011. So what does the S bring to the table besides more seats and less cost than the Roadster? The brass answer that question in a video explaining the Model S.

Tesla makes a big [...]