Blue Hen’s Cooking Oil Car = 100 Miles to Gallon!!

With gas prices steadily rising, fuel efficiency and alternative fuel are all the rage now, and there’s a special buzz on the UD campus about powering vehicles. The University of Delaware is a pioneer in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology which allows plug-in battery operated vehicles to charge from the main power grid and to discharge their [...]

You are your car (color)

Before you get too far into another mindblowing UD Alumni Relations Blog post, take a moment and make note of the color of your car. According to Peter Weil, associate professor of cultural anthropology at UD,  it appears that our car color says something about you.  Professor Weil was recently quoted by DuPont’s color design [...]

Chicken feathers to save the world, says UD

The UD Alumni Relations Blog has a plan to save the world, and it all begins with the zero-emission flying car.  Unfortunately that’s also where our plan ends as we know nothing about emissions, flying or cars and we have only a tenuous grasp on the concept of zero.  Thankfully, University of Delaware researchers appreciate [...]

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