Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The President’s Budget proposes a 12% increase in funding for the Department of Energy. Click to enlarge. In support of President Obama’s goal of having 1 million advanced technology vehicles on US roads by 2015, the President’s Budget submitted today proposes a new effort to support electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption in the United States through new consumer. rebates, investments in R&D, and competitive programs to encourage communities. that invest in electric vehicl

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

I just ran across the latest available data, from 2005, for the electricity consumption by petroleum refineries. ( Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division ) The US is, hoorah, #1. Almost 49,000,000,000 kWh. One electric car, roughly speaking, will use about 3000 kWh to go about 12,000 miles. That means the electricity alone we use to refine petroleum each year could drive over 16,000,o00 electric cars 12,000 miles each year.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Opel has come out with a range-extended electric police car (a plug-in hybrid, like the Chevy Volt) for the European market. The advantage of electric police cars, according to the report, is that they can be silent and sneaky. I wish folks would make up their minds on whether the silent factor is a good thing or not, I'm getting whiplash. 36 thousand Euros after the VAT, though?

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

We approach energy policy with care here, since GreenCarReports is largely about. well, cars. But a recent article claims it could take just 40 years to convert the bulk of the world's global energy usage from fossil fuels to renewable energy, primarily wind and solar power. That's not only vehicle fuel, but also electric-power generation, home.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

While its official world debut isn’t pegged until the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in just a few weeks, the Nissan ESFLOW electric sports car concept has been revealed in the flesh--or should we say aluminum and carbon fiber?--at a special media event in Frankfurt, Germany today. The High Gear Media team was on hand to bring you these live shots.

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National Green Transportation

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David Herron A vote in Congress last Friday on an ammendment demonstrated a widely recognized truism. Support for corn ethanol subsidies is strong in states that grow a lot of corn, and is weak elsewhere. This support crosses party lines and includes people. February 21, 2011.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Volvo invited us to its company headquarters this week to take its C30 electric car for a spin before the launch of Swedish trials of its first electric model later this year. Editor, Faye Sunderland, got behind the wheel to find out more about Volvo’s first steps towards realising its ‘DRIVe towards Zero’ mission. Driving [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a high-voltage electric car got into a high-speed crash? Chevy and OnStar, in a joint project with the National Fire Protection Association, are touring the country talking to first responders about how to safely deal with an accident scene that involves an electric vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Turmoil in Libya is making global oil markets nervous. That means higher gasoline prices. Cue the creeping unease and outright fear that Our American Way Of Life May Be In Peril. Well, it's Monday morning, and we have a brisk message for our U.S. readers: Shut up and stop whining. So gas is over $3 a gallon, maybe even edging close to $4.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Ask most consumers to describe a Porsche and they’ll describe the classic Porsche Boxster: a rear-wheel drive, mid or rear-engined car designed for the driving enthusiast rather than the casual commuter. Large, noisy engines have always been a prerequisite. Until now. We heard last summer that Porsche had plans to test an electric.

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National Green Transportation

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

A month ago rumors were circulating that maybe, possibly, Rolls Royce was developing an all-electric limo. At the time their CEO, Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes, suggested it might be a good idea and that "all options were on the table" but did. David Herron February 21, 2011.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

by Jack Rosebro. Components of the Q5 hybrid system. Click to enlarge. In a presentation at the 2011 Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC) in Pasadena, California last week, Daniel Andree, a battery development engineer at Audi AG, outlined the implementation of a Sanyo lithium-ion battery pack in the upcoming 2012 Audi Q5 compact crossover hybrid. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

It is hard not to get carried away with Nissan’s latest all electric concept, the ESFLOW. TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has been invited to an exclusive viewing of the shiny, two-seater ahead of its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show in two weeks time. So what do we know about the concept so far? Firstly, the Japanese [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Coulomb Technologies is setting up charging stations in several American cities, including Austin, San Francisco, Detroit, and Orlando. If you had charging stations at work or near work, I can see this being useful. Especially for only 23 dollars for an unlimited 6 month subscription!

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Last fall, GM executive Tom Stephens said the company would offer a passenger car with a clean-diesel engine in the U.S. market, its first since 1985. Now we know what that vehicle will be: a model of the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan. Workers at the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant where the Cruze is built were told about the model last week.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In a little over a week, Volvo will be unveiling its latest plug-in electric vehicle to the world at the 2011 Geneva Auto Show. But just like last week when we were given an exclusive pre-Geneva peek at Nissan’s ESFlow electric sportscar concept in Frankfurt, Volvo invited us a few weeks ago to its headquarters in a wintery Gothenburg.

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National Green Transportation

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Zero Motorcycles today unveiled their 2011 electric motorcycle lineup. They've retained the same models (X, MX, S and DS), with what they call "sweeping technical improvements" and an upgraded new look. One really interesting feature.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The Blue-City CNG hybrid bus. Click to enlarge. Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, unveiled the nation’s first CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) hybrid bus, “Blue-City” This is the first time a major automaker independently developed both the system and body for such a vehicle. The hybrid bus is equipped with a G-CNG Engine that offers 177 kW (237 hp) and a 6-speed automated manual transmission, plus a 60kW electric drive motor and 3.8 kWh lithium-polymer battery pack

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Much of the world’s focus is on reducing carbon dioxide emissions – but have we overlooked the emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in the process? According to a new analysis appearing in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, emissions peaked in the 1970s and then decreased until 2000 – only to increase again in recent [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Electric car charging in a condo or apartment is WAY different from a house with a garage! Watch as Plug In America talks about this next generation issue. Warning: a little LONG. Seventeen minutes or so.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Chevrolet Cruze has been on sale for a few months at this point. Sales seem to be doing well, and the advertising is definitely aggressive. Chevrolet even calls out the competition by name in its advertising. The introduction of the Eco model was slightly behind that of the regular Cruze models, though we recently had the opportunity to drive.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A few days ago we told you what you needed to know about Nissan LEAF and Chevrolet Volt servicing. After all, an electric car doesn't have many of the serviceable components you associate with a fossil-fuelled vehicle. Not one to be left out, Ford are now extolling the virtues of simple servicing on their upcoming 2012 Focus Electric. Despite the.

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National Green Transportation

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Do you like this story? Following last weekends Friends of Caltrain meeting (see: Friends of Caltrain seeks to save Peninsula train service from death spiral) it will not be surprising to learn that in today Caltrain's Board declared a state of emergency. What was.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) is suing the California Air Resources Board (ARB), challenging the legality of ARB’s Truck and Bus Regulation. ( Earlier post.). The lawsuit, California Dump Truck Owners Association v. Air Resources Board, was filed in the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division, on 11 February 2011.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Japanese car maker Honda has turned its expertise in efficient engine technology to jointly develop a new micro-combined heat and power system (mCHP) for use in the home. Teaming up with heating and ventilation specialist Valiant, the new mCHP system is designed especially for the European market and will become available in Germany by the [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I guess the Army's electric vehicle won't be needing the fake noisy gas engine sound track shown in the video, then? More about the Army's stealth EV after the jump.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The first business day of every month is when automakers release sales data for the previous month. Today, we got January's sales figures, which are an improvement over last January's. But the question that we keep hearing is: Which sells better, the 2011 Nissan Leaf or the 2011 Chevrolet Volt? They're the first two plug-in electric vehicles sold.

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All Cars Electric

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You’ve seen the adverts, been to the test-drive and placed down a $99 deposit for Nissan’s all-electric Leaf. Of course, there’s something you probably weren’t told about at the time of reserving a place in the queue. Patience. Save for a few hundred lucky individuals, the Nissan North America roll out of the 2011 Leaf has.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Non-edible carbohydrates are converted to renewable diesel-range liquids via two consecutive catalytic steps. Credit: Wiley-VCH, Corma et al. Click to enlarge. A team at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) has designed a new simple, energy-efficient process (that also does not require any organic solvents) for the production of renewable diesel from biomass waste.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Diesel vehicles accounted for 70.7% of new vehicle registrations in France in January, up a point (131,230 units), while gasoline models fell by a point, to 26.3% (48,876 units). Registrations of vehicles running on LPG rose by 18.6% to 4,282 units, representing 2.3% market share. Hybrid sales dropped 3.3% to 889 units. The Auris was the best selling model (463 units), ahead of the Prius (171 units).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Fuel-based particulate matter emission factors (A: PM 2.5 mass, B: organic carbon fraction (OC/PM), C: elemental carbon fraction (EC/PM)), global warming commitment (D: GWC-Kyoto, E: GWC-All), and F: fuel consumption. Credit: ACS, Reynolds et al. Click to enlarge. Chassis dynamometer emission testing conducted on 30 in-use Indian auto-rickshaws—two-stroke and four-stroke CNG-fueled (CNG-2S and CNG-4S) and four-stroke gasoline-fueled (PET-4S)—found that global warming commitment (GWC)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Increasing crude processing intensity and energy intensity with worsening oil quality. OQ: Crude feed oil quality. PI: Crude processing intensity. EI: Refinery energy intensity. Observations are annual weighted averages for districts 1 (yellow), 2 (blue), 3 (orange), and 5 (black) in 1999-2008. Diagonal lines bound the 95% confidence of prediction for observations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Schematic comparison between direct photosynthetic (top) and algal biomass (bottom) processes. Source: Robertson et al. Click to enlarge. Joule Unlimited’s direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ) can produce the areal equivalent of up to 15,000 gallons of diesel per acre annually, according to a new open access paper by a Joule team published in the journal Photosynthesis Research.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The fuel cell industry is growing even in the face of a global economic recession, with 2010 revenues exceeding $750 million. Markets such as uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), residential combined heat and power (CHP), power for remote monitoring equipment, auxiliary power units (APUs), and portal power for military applications have all experienced an increase in traction over the last year.

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