Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

Sanyo Electric recently announced an agreement with Suzuki Motor to supply lithium-ion battery systems for the Swift Plug-in Hybrid. ( Earlier post.) Suzuki has already announced its intention to start manufacturing the vehicles. The plug-in is powered by a 55 kW, 180 N·m AC synchronous motor and a 2.66 kWh Li-ion battery pack. The 0.66L engine is the K6A, earlier versions of which were used in the Cappuccino.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 9, 2010

Breaking new ground in hubris, even for GM, they now want to eliminate the term "Chevy" in favor of the original mouthful, "Chevrolet". Employees who use the wrong word now have to put a quarter in the corporate cuss jar. Really. Um, note to the two marketing and sales execs who came up with this stroke of "branding consistency" genius: when your paying customers pet-name your product, don't argue with them.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Executive Producer Stefano Durdic made a visit to Chicago’s Academy for Global Citizenship today, to give the students at this public contract school a chance to tour the Tesla Roadster and learn about electric cars. The young students had the same questions about electric cars that most adults have: “How fast does it go?&#. “Does it make any noise?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 11, 2010

When it launched in the States in 2002, the Mini Cooper taught the auto industry that U.S. buyers will pay real money for very small cars. If, that is, they offer personality, charm, cheekiness, and good handling. But can you make a Mini into a crossover sport utility and still keep its "Mini-ness"? That's the question that buyers will decide.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 28, 2010

Tesla, or TSLA as it will trade under on Nasdaq, has been priced at $17 per share, allowing the electric car start-up to raise more than $226 million in its IPO. Investors were expecting the share price target range to be between $14 and $16 but the overflow of excitement saw Tesla increase the number of shares it plans to offer to 13.3 million.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 6, 2010

Anyone planning to drive the new BMW ActiveHybrid 7 has been boosted by news that the vehicle will qualify for a substantial tax credit. The US Internal Revenue Service has determined that the car will earn a $900 credit under the Alternative Motor Vehicle provision. The vehicle, which combines an electric motor with BMW’s 4.4litre twin-turbo V8 [.].

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 11, 2010

Reverend Gadget is back.with an amazing electric car kit. And an amazing electric kit car, too. And lithium!

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. – Boston Corridor. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. By Mike Ramsey for the Wall Street Journal. From the article: “The car would be leased for four years at $599 a month and would be under warranty during the full period.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2010

If you're shopping for a hybrid vehicle, time is drawing to a close to take advantage of the Federal government's hybrid tax credits. But before those credits expire at the end of 2010, there's one new hybrid you'll want to add to your shopping list: the upcoming 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. It's expected to go on sale sometime in October or.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 3, 2010

By the end of this year, several fully modern, highway-capable electric vehicles will go on sale. Sooner or later, one of them will get into an accident. What should emergency responders do when faced with a high-voltage battery pack that could kill them if mishandled? To prepare first responders to handle accidents involving EVs, General Motors.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 22, 2010

Tuesday 22 June 2010. The Green Piece Column. Once the embodiment of a seemingly far-fetched future, electric cars are on the brink of becoming a mainstream reality. However, as their turn in the spotlight moves closer, questions continue to surround their impact on the environment. Arguably the main reason electric cars have gained momentum in recent years [.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

The government of Canada is awarding approximately C$5 million (US$4.7 million) to a project to produce fuels on a large scale from algae grown in Nova Scotia. Speaking in Halifax, the Honorable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), made the announcement at the launch of the algal biofuel project at the National Research Council Institute for Marine Biosciences (NRC-IMB).

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JUNE 24, 2010

The Wheego Whip has gone on a lithium diet, lost a little weight, and is now officially a hottie.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Revenge of the Electric Car director Chris Paine attended the “LA Get Off Oil Day&# rally in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 2 2nd, where Chelsea Sexton from Who Killed the Electric Car? was also spotted, along with author and radio personality Richard Greene, LA’s mayor, members of NRDC, The Sierra Club, Heal the Bay, and more. The event was organized by filmmakers for the documentary recently released on DVD, Fuel , directed by Josh Tickell- who was also in attendance and sp

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JUNE 30, 2010

Quick, name the last automaker to go public before yesterday's Tesla Motors IPO. Stumped? It was Ford Motor Company. The year was 1956. Perhaps buyers of Tesla Motors stock [NSDQ:TSLA] were optimistic because they had little context to assess the comapny. Tesla's stock soared from its offering price of $17 to close at $23.89 by the end of.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 7, 2010

The 2010 Tesla Roadster is seen by many as the ultimate boy's toy. But Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs added another car to his garage today by walking through the Nissan Leaf signup process live at the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2010 live on stage. In photos snapped by Apple website MacRumorslive.com live at the WWDC2010.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 29, 2010

Tuesday 29 June 2010. The Green Piece Column Think green cars, and much like The Vapors 30 years ago, you’re probably “turning Japanese”. From Toyota’s groundbreaking Prius, to Honda’s wealth of hybrids, Mitsubishi’s innovative i-MiEV and Nissan’s plans to be the first to mass produce an electric car with the LEAF, it seems that the rest [.]. Tags: Ford The Green Piece econetic electric car focus green piece.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

Sauter Carbon Offset Design has introduced the design of Transcendence, a 49-meter plug-in hybrid megayacht featuring Mercedes Benz / MTU Bluetec diesel electric power generation, solar cells, and a grid-chargeable Li-ion storage system to achieve a 50 to 100% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to other high-performance megayachts. Transcendence.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2010

The hybrid helicopter concept. Click to enlarge. EADS Innovation Works is presenting a concept helicopter with a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system at the ILA Berlin Airshow 2010, 8-13 June. The diesel-electric hybrid concept is one of the projects grouped under the name of eCO2avia by EADS Innovation Works. Highly efficient electrical motors driving the rotors, combined with OPOC (Opposed Piston, Opposed Cylinder) diesel engines ( earlier post ), reduce fuel consumption and emissions by u

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2010

The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. indicated that it plans to develop an electric-car prototype jointly with Tesla Motors Inc. for testing as early as this year. Upon forming capital and business ties last month [ earlier post ], Toyota and Tesla said that they will jointly develop electric vehicles and share expertise, such as Tesla’s electric-vehicle technologies and Toyota’s production know-how.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

Sandia has been working on “Sunshine to Petrol” technologies for a number of years. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. ( Earlier post.). The alliance team members include Sandia National Laboratories, Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Pacific Renewable Fuels, Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne (a United

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding with New Mexico-based Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. The MOU is the beginning of a joint venture between the two companies to license, build and market Hyperion’s small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) earlier post ) on a world-wide basis. Hyperion announced the ultra-small reactor, which already has more than 150 purchase commitments from customers such as mining and telecom companies, in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, Inc., intends to conduct a voluntary safety recall of potentially 17,000 2010 model year Lexus HS 250h hybrid vehicles to address a compliance issue with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 301. As part of its annual compliance testing program, the NHTSA recently conducted a test of the 2010 model year HS 250h.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Linc Energy Limited and AFC Energy, developer of low-cost alkaline fuel cells, have successfully combined syngas from underground coal gasification with the alkaline fuel cell technology to produce electricity at Linc Energy’s Chinchilla Demonstration Facility in Queensland. ( Earlier post.). Linc Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Peter Bond said his company’s exclusive agreement with UK-based AFC Energy for application with UCG and the delivery of an Alpha Unit Hydrogen Fuel Ce

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Electric Car Company , Inc., a vehicle conversion company specializing in electric conversions and manufacturing for the livery and fleet markets, and Liberty Electric Cars , USA LLC ( earlier post ) intend to form a joint venture for the conversion of large luxury 4x4s to all-electric drive, as well as the manufacture of new EVs. The two signed a letter of intent; the proposed joint venture is subject to the execution of a definitive agreement.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Perspective by Felix Kramer, Founder, CalCars. Reprinted by invitation from the CalCars website. [Calling the recent weeks “ one of the most emotionally difficult times for me as I’ve seen people with far more clout than I fail to make headway in changing the lackluster, dispiriting and immensely frustrating responses to the Gulf catastrophe ,” CalCars founder Felix Kramer has written a pre-response to President Obama’s scheduled Tuesday night speech to the US about the catastrophe in the Gulf o

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

The extended range electric vehicle drive system by Raser Technologies and its development partner FEV is targeted at providing up to 40 miles all-electric range for SUVs and light trucks. Click to enlarge. Raser Technologies, Inc. and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint development of renewable energy and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2010

The US Department of Transportation released new data from the Federal Highway Administration’s 2009 National Household Travel Survey which shows that both bicycling and walking trips have increased by 25% since 2001. The FHWA funded Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center included this data in The National Bicycling and Walking Study: A 15-Year Status Report.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Ford will begin offering an alternative-fuels engine prep package for its 6.8-liter F-450 and F-550 Super Duty chassis cab. Ford presented details of the conversion option, which will become available this fall and enables the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) or propane (LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas), at the annual Ford Fleet Product and Business Conference in Dearborn.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking (JU) has published its 2010 Call for Proposals with a budget of €89.1 million (US$110 million). The JU publishes annual calls for proposals (from 2008-2013), on the basis of which funding is granted for research, technological development and demonstration projects. ( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Biorefineries may have a major role to play in mitigating the threat of climate change; meeting the “ seemingly boundless demand ” for energy, fuels, chemicals and materials; and creating economic growth, according to a new report released by the World Economic Forum: The Future of Industrial Biorefineries. The report defines a biorefinery as a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, chemicals, feed, materials and energy from biomass: biological mate

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

Petrobras plans to invest $224 billion from 2010 through 2014, representing an average of $44.8 billion per year, of which 95% ($212.3 billion) will be invested in Brazil and 5% ($11.7 billion) abroad. The planned investment for the next five years is 20% more than the previous Plan. In total, $31.6 billion will be directed to new projects, 62% of which is earmarked for E&P ($19.7 billion).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2010

Global Atlanta. The state-owned Chinese vehicle maker Ankai Automobile Co. Ltd. is developing a plug-in hybrid electric bus for the US market. Ankai is China’s third-largest bus company; it has partnered since 1993 with Daimler Buses, producing Setra brand buses under license for the Chinese market. Ankai is working with Efficient Drivetrains Inc. (EDI) in Palo Alto, CA to develop the plug-in hybrid’s drive train.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Overall vehicle package. Source: Intelligent Energy. Click to enlarge. Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt, with funding from the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, unveiled a full performance, zero-emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid London taxi. ( Earlier post.). The Fuel Cell Black Cab uses an Intelligent Energy fuel cell (30 kW net output) as a range extender for the 14 kWh lithium polymer battery pack, allowing the vehicle to operate for a full day without the

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