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Encana challenges EPA draft Pavillion groundwater report

Green Car Congress

Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., In its study, EPA re-tested private and public drinking water wells in the community and drilled two independent deep monitoring wells. At the same time, this geology does not allow water to move from one area to another because the discontinuous sand pockets are not regionally connected.

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Mazdas new SKYACTIV gasoline and diesel engines are steps on the road to its Ideal Engine; focus on compression ratio

Green Car Congress

At the workshop, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Mazda Executive Officer in charge of project planning and development, suggested unofficially that Mazda engineers think they ultimately may be able to approach 60% thermal efficiency with combustion engines for light duty vehicles. Extreme compression ratio rather than downsizing. liter MZR engine.

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Lamborghini presents super sports V12 hybrid HPEV Revuelto

Green Car Congress

This technology was developed and used by Lamborghini in its first structural applications as far back as 2008. The rocker ring encloses and connects the Forged Composite elements such as the tub, the front firewall and A pillar. The Revuelto is the first super sports car to be fitted with a 100% carbon fiber front structure.

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Why NPR Hates Electric Cars - A Greenius Expose

Creative Greenius

The Focus is supposed to get 100 miles to a charge, but Frank is very worried about where people are going to plug in their cars. He also didn’t have a word to say about the coming smart grid or vehicle to grid connections. After my exhaustive investigation I now have the answers and they’re both simple and horrifying.

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This New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel

Cars That Think

It’s January 2030 and your electric heat pump is warming the house while your electric car charges in the garage, all powered by solar panels on your roof and by wind and solar generators at your local utility. It’s consuming that ammonia in a linear generator. That’s the theory.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

They even had a real plug connected to their toy car on the exhibit hall. Get to know Coulomb they make the CHARGEPOINT charging stations and they make them good. Their chargers were all over the exhibit floor charging every EV there. May I charge your EV sir? Check the oil? there is no oil.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Email ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed Jonathan Read discusses why electric vehicles and fast-charging systems, not battery-replacement systems such as the one touted by Project Better Place, are the future. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.