Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Research project Turbosteamer, Generation 2. Click to enlarge. Despite improvements in engine efficiency—e.g., with technologies such as direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, exhaust-driven turbochargers, brake energy regeneration and Auto Start Stop function—about 60% of the generated energy is still lost, half of it being exhaust heat, with the remaining half as heat absorbed by the engine cooling system.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 17, 2011

Mission Motors just secured $9m in its second round of funding. I hadn't heard of this stealthy manufacturer of electric car motors and drive train components until today, but I get the feeling we'll be seeing more of them in the future - under the hood of our electric car.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2011

It was much easier to be suspicious of older diesels with their poor performance, noise and so-so economy figures, and images of diesel-powered trucks "rolling coal" did nothing for their green image either. The latest generation of diesels are significantly cleaner than their older brethren, with particulate filters and urea injection reducing.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 10, 2011

It's a kind of stereotyped dream isn't it, the electric car and wind turbines or solar panels in the background. It offers this zero emission "no more fuel" nirvana when your car is.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 3, 2011

Nissan’s all-electric Leaf isn’t having a great time of it this week in the mainstream media. Firstly, Nissan had to defend itself against popular British motoring entertainment program Top Gear after it showed the electric hatchback in a less-than favorable light, quoting a battery expert who said the Leaf’s 24 kilowatt hour.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 3, 2011

PA Consulting, a leading IT and technology firm, is the latest company to sign up to Zenith Provecta’s salary exchange scheme. The scheme allows staff to sacrifice a proportion of their salary in order to drive a low emission car. CO2 emissions are restricted to a maximum of 160g/km, although as all the cars on [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 31, 2011

So you may have heard a little about the not-so-clean business of lead acid battery recycling.but hey, what about all the lithium ion batteries being used in today's electric cars? This NYT article connects the electric car manufacturers with their long-term battery recycling plans.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2011

We’re a few months away from the official launch of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric -- and to answer all your questions about Ford’s first mass-produced all-electric car here’s our ultimate guide to the Ford Focus Electric. For our guide, we’ve hand-picked the best information about the five-seat hatchback, detailing.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 15, 2011

This week the Lightning Motorcycles team broke new ground with electric motorcycles at the Speed Week event on the Bonneville Salt Flats. During qualifications they shattered last years land speed record of 173 miles/hr with a stunning 33.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 1, 2011

Ever since the launch of the 2011 Nissan Leaf, owners have been able to remotely access information about their car’s state of charge, estimated range and even pre-heat or cool the cabin using Nissan’s built-in telematics service - Carwings. But unless you happened to own an iPhone in addition to your Nissan Leaf, the only way you.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Having had the opportunity to drive the Nissan LEAF in April around the roads of Milton Keynes, I know that the LEAF is an entirely sensible, perfectly drivable small family car – which is of course the biggest compliment you can lay at the feet of the clever people at Nissan. The first production 100% [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2011

Virent’s BioForming platform can produce drop-in gasoline, diesel or jet fuels from plant sugars. Source: Virent. Click to enlarge. Virent has taken another step in the gasoline certification process, successfully completing its first road fleet test organized and executed by Virent collaborator and investor Royal Dutch Shell. Virent’s biogasoline was found to cause “no harm” to vehicles in comparison to Shell’s baseline fuel.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are a lot of electric motors out there, but just a few make up the majority of electric car motors being used today.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2011

Wouldn’t it be great if old newspapers and junk mail could be used to generate biofuel, instead of taking up space in landfills? Tulane University scientists have discovered a strain of bacteria capable of turning old newspaper into butanol. Better yet, the newly-discovered bacteria is capable of doing so in the presence of oxygen, something.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Saturday morning Richard Hatfield began sending text messages to colleagues and followers, the first reading "Bonneville, 2nd run 205mph, first EBike over 200 mph ever!" followed shortly by "Now we can launch The fastest production.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 3, 2011

We’ve now had four chances to put the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid through its paces, covering everything from fast-moving freeways and inner city streets through to mountain passes and trips to the local Costco. In the end we concluded that for some drivers, Toyota’s 13 mile-per-charge plug-in hybrid could represent a better buy.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 1, 2011

Where we stand: August, 2011 Internationally renowned for its boxer engine which became a hallmark of the Volkswagen Beetle and the Porsche 911, Japanese carmaker Subaru has now made the engine a hallmark of all of its own vehicles while also offering turbocharged versions of their passenger cars. The automobile manufacturing division of Fuji Heavy [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2011

Researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, led by Stanley Whittingham, have developed a Si/MgO/graphite composite for use as a high-performance durable anode for lithium-ion batteries. They presented their work at the 219 th ECS Meeting in May 2011, and report on it in a paper in press in Electrochemistry Communications. Silicon-based anode materials have received much interest due to their high capacity and suitable working potential.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 17, 2011

This sounds like an interesting new twist on the Chevy Volt saga. Electric luxury cars on the horizon. (Count me in!

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2011

How many vehicles are there on Earth? We'd ask you to guess, except the headline above gives away the answer. According to industry trade journal Ward's, which added up both reported vehicle registrations and historical trends, the total crossed 1 billion sometime last year. The vehicles include passenger cars, light-, medium-, and heavy-duty.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 13, 2011

This week is Speed Week on the Bonneville salt flats, and among the contenders for various land speed records are electric vehicle race teams. (see 2011 Speed Week is here, electric motorcycle speed records at Bonneville) The Lightning.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 2, 2011

If Tesla’s Model S all-electric seven-seat sedan were in high school, it would be the kind of girl every heterosexual boy would lust after and every teenage girl would want to be. At least, that’s certainly the line being taken by Tesla in its latest teasing track-test video, in which not one but three of its Model S Alpha-build cars.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 9, 2011

Tuesday 9 August 2011. The Green Piece Column. Has the time finally arrived for us to make the switch to electric cars? The results of two studies, both revealed over the last week, offered deeply contrasting answers. On one side of the equation, the BMW Group revealed the results of its MINI E trial across [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

The 508 RXH diesel-electric hybrid goes on sale in Spring 2012. Click to enlarge. Peugeot will introduce the 508 RXH diesel-electric hybrid, the third model in the 508 range and the second deployment of the HYbrid4 diesel-electric drivetrain following its release on the 3008 HYbrid4 ( earlier post ), at the upcoming Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA) in September.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are a lot of motors out there, but which are better electric car motors - AC or DC?

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2011

The 2012 Nissan Leaf is the second generation of Nissan’s all-electric family hatchback, following on from the highly popular 2011 Nissan Leaf. But one year on from the original Leaf's launch, what's different in the 2012 model? Here's our list of things we think you need to know about the revised 2012 Nissan Leaf. Charging Like most other.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 9, 2011

Tesla Motors announced today four additions to their management team that go hand-in-hand with their expansion into retailing and manufacturing. On the one hand, Tesla is building a chain of retail stores, and on the other hand.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 8, 2011

Call it the battle of the clean-car cargo ships. First Toyota retrofitted its Auriga Leader car transporter ship with a diesel hybrid powertrain, allowing some energy to be recaptured in a bank of nickel-metal-hydride batteries just like those used in its Prius and other hybrid cars. That ship got a fair amount of media attention for a category of.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2011

Businesses across the UK will now be able to lease fully electric vehicles, thanks to a new deal between British Gas and fleet firm, Hitachi Capital Vehicle Solutions. The new agreement will make it easier for firms to make full use of electric vehicles as part of their business fleet as British Gas agree to [.].

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. report in Journal of Industrial Ecology that even with a rapid and widespread adoption of electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries, lithium resources are sufficient to support demand until at least the end of this century. For their study, they assessed the global availability of lithium and compared it to the potential demand from large-scale global use of electric vehicles.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

AUGUST 25, 2011

Heard about this gigantic pipeline project in the works yet? Keystone XL is a new pipeline designed to move oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico.hoping to destroy the boreal forests of Canada and the Gulf at the same time, I guess, because environmental devastation and climate change weren't moving fast enough already. We need to stop this.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are lots of different Land Speed Record categories, and each year one or two of them fall to new challengers. So it's not surprising that new records for production diesel and biodiesel trucks were set this weekend at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. What is surprising is the vehicle that was used: a relatively stock 2011 Ford F-250.

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National Green Transportation

AUGUST 16, 2011

Not ones to rest on their laurels, the Lightning Motorcycles electric motorcycle race team has done it again. At 12:14 PM today they smashed the land speed record they set on Sunday for electric motorcycles, achieving a.

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All Cars Electric

AUGUST 8, 2011

A few weeks ago we told you that pharmaceuticals giant Walgreens had begun to install Level 2 electric car stations at stores in New York City, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago. While the presence of electric car charging stations -- an estimated 800 at Walgreens stores alone -- are a great way of combating perceived range anxiety in.

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