Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2010

South Bay Bicycle Coalition members including Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels, with County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and County Department of Public Health Staff upon awarding of the grant. That's South Bay Bicycle Coalition Chairman, Todd "Elvis" Dipaola rocking the shades. Your Greenius got great news from downtown Los Angeles on Friday when my pal, Todd Diapola called me from Kenny Hahn Hall of Administration to report he and the other representatives of the South Bay Bic

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., “cold fusion”) to process an energy release from an electrolytic cell operating at low temperature and that could be competitive with a Li-ion battery or a fuel cell—at the 239 th national meeting of the American Chemical Society

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 18, 2010

Nissan Leaf Electric Car to be Made in the UK. “Japanese car manufacturer Nissan announced today that it would build its new energy efficient electric car, the Nissan Leaf, in the UK. The decision represents an investment of some £420 million ($642 million) from Nissan in electric vehicles which will be spent in the UK. The company had already made a pledge to invest around £178 million ($273 million) in a new manufacturing plant in Sunderland, in the north-east of England.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 19, 2010

Few automotive engineers believe in so-called "sudden acceleration". But until recently, there's been no way to determine what a driver what doing when he (or she) swears that he was pressing the brake pedal with all his strength even as the car accelerated. Now, that's changed. Federal investigators say the latest highly publicized incident--in.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 31, 2010

Telematic technology could help electric cars overcome a a major obstacle, making it easier for car buyers to overcome the dreaded ‘range anxiety’, Frost & Sullivan suggest in a new report. According to the global market analysts, telematics could be used to develop a system of alerts to inform the driver when the vehicle is [.]. Tags: Electric cars Frost & Sullivan range anxiety smart navigation telematics.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 10, 2010

Could hybrid cars actually be dangerous to the environment? It seems like an unfounded question. How could hybrids actually hurt the environment? A study conducted by a research committee funded by the Environmental Protection group of Israel suggests that hybrid could actually be harmful to the environment and humans, as well. The study found.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Fiat 500EV. Click to enlarge. Chrysler Group LLC plans to engineer and produce a battery electric vehicle using the Fiat 500 platform. Previewed earlier this year at the 2010 North American International Auto Show, the Fiat 500EV demonstrates the immediate benefits of the alliance between Chrysler Group and the Fiat Group as well as the speed at which the two companies can work together on advanced vehicle programs, according to Chrysler.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 29, 2010

One out of four consumers interested in electric vehicles. From the USA Today Article: One out of four consumers say they would be willing to consider a plug-in electric car next time they are shopping for a new vehicle, Consumer Reports says one of its polls found. Seven percent said it is “very likely&# they would buy one. Here’s the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2010

A new study concludes that last summer's government-funded "Cash For Clunkers" program didn't hurt car sales rates in future months, and in fact did just what it set out to do: get old, low-mileage cars off the road and stimulate auto sales in the U.S. An analysis by Maritz Research refutes one of the main concerns over the Car Allowance Rebate.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 25, 2010

New car prices are set to fall-that’s the prediction from leading car data providers, Glass’s. According to the firm, some car manufacturers will reduce their prices in a effort to increase sales and counteract a fall in registrations as the Scrappage Scheme ends this month. Particularly, prices for new cars maybe realigned to suit business [.]. Tags: Green credentials fall Glass guide new cars price scheme scrappage tax.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 18, 2010

Nissan upped the ante on the war to become the leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer this week with the announcement of a third factory for production of its upcoming Leaf all-electric hatchback. With the small British city of Sunderland becoming the third factory in three continents to be tooled up for the Leaf, Nissan is certainly singing.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 12, 2010

Courtesy of YouTube and the Hermosa Beach City website and converted and enlarged through the magic of Greenius we bring you this exclusive look at the Carbon Neutral ClueTrain leaving the Hermosa Beach station this week. Local mainstream media missed this story completely but fortunately for them this on-line record will exist for them to use as research.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes coated with a 7nm annular shell of cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (TNA) were used to demonstrate the thermopower waves. The TNA shows up as a bright coating compared to the nanotubes. Source: Choi et al. Click to enlarge. A team of scientists at MIT has discovered and demonstrated a previously unknown phenomenon that creates self-propagating waves with high thermal conductivity and with electric pulses of very high specific power, up to 7 kW/kg.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 23, 2010

Thomas Friedman (left) and Chris Paine (right). Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and noted New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman blazed through town recently to promote his new book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.&#. Tom graciously sat still for our camera long enough to share some of his insights about the interrelated nature of our present economic and ecologic woes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 17, 2010

We write a lot about green cars, here at GreenCarReports.com. Surprise, right? Now our partner TrueCar has provided some data about which cars are greenest. That is, which cars are most often ordered in the color green. Consider this our automotive celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! It's long been known that a green.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 22, 2010

Just how large a role will ethanol play in fuelling vehicles over the next few years? Well, according to a production forecast released by the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), its influence is set to sky rocket. According to the report by the GRFA, which is an international federation representing more than 65 per cent of [.]. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news ethanol ethanol in vehicles ethanol production Global Renewable Fuels Alliance.

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All Cars Electric

MARCH 3, 2010

Maybe it's just the translation. But auto writers often chuckle at announcements from German manufacturers that come across as just a touch bombastic. Latest case in point: Volkswagen's long-term plans for vehicle electrification, released at the Geneva Motor Show this week. Key excerpt: "High-volume Golf and Jetta models. are expected to.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 16, 2010

Your friendly neighborhood Greenius wrote seven months ago about the chemical problems the City of Torrance , known throughout the South Bay as ToxicTown (when it isn’t going under its new official designation as a Blighted Community) , but not a single person on the City Council, in City Government or connected with the city in any way cares enough about this issue to address it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

The use of a supercritical fuel charge enables very fast and complete combustion with minimized thermal losses. The chart shows heat release from a standard diesel combustion cycle (solid black line), overlaid with the heat release from a TSCi cycle (dashed blue line). TSCi combustion minimizes heat loss to the cylinder walls and in the exhaust. Source: Transonic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2010

During the AASHTO conference (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) in Palm Desert, California last fall, BMW and Siemens presented a system that transmits data between traffic lights and the vehicle to optimize the automatic engine start-stop function and the recovery of braking energy when approaching a traffic light.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

R.W. Beck, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Golden Field Office to support The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Biomass Program. The BPA’s period of performance expires 30 Sep. 2015 and has a ceiling value of $21 million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2010

Average new car CO 2 emissions in the UK fell by their biggest ever margin last year with the impact of recession and the Scrappage Incentive Scheme boosting the continued influence of technological advances made by vehicle manufacturers, according to the annual New Car CO 2 Report from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The average new car sold in the UK in 2009 emitted 149.5 g/km of CO 2 , down 5.4% on the 2008 figure and 21.2% better than the 1997 base level.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

World crude oil production model. Credit: ACS, Nashawi et al. Click to enlarge. Scientists from Kuwait University and Kuwait Oil Company are forecasting that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014—almost a decade earlier than some other predictions. Their study is in published the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Ibrahim Nashawi and colleagues point out that rapid growth in global oil consumption has sparked a growing interest in predicting “peak oil”—the point at which oil pro

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The first hydrogen plant for renewable energy storage in Greenland has been inaugurated. The plant is a test system which shall help provide suggestions for how hydrogen can be used for future renewable energy storage in the country. H2 Logic A/S from Denmark has developed and delivered the hydrogen plant which is owned and operated by the national energy company Nukissiorfiit.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

The Jiao EN-V model. Click to enlarge. GM and its strategic partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group (SAIC) unveiled three models of a concept new vehicle form called EN-V, short for Electric Networked-Vehicle. EN-V is a two-seat electric vehicle designed to alleviate concerns surrounding traffic congestion, parking availability, air quality and affordability for tomorrow’s cities.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

The EM100 base module showcased at the ARPA-E summit. Click to enlarge. EcoMotors International, a Khosla-funded startup working to commercialize an opoc (opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder) engine family ( earlier post ), showcased its EM100 (100mm cylinder bore) base module implementation at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington DC last week.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

with Stop-Start. E 300 BlueTEC HYBRID, C 220 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY and E 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz introduced the E 300 BlueTEC diesel HYBRID at the Geneva Motor Show. The new vehicle—Mercedes’ first production diesel hybrid, and based on its modular hybrid system ( earlier post )—pairs a 2.2-liter four-cylinder diesel engine developing 150 kW (204 hp) with a hybrid module incorporating a 15 kW electric motor.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2010

Elements of the new hybrid drive. Source: Nissan. Click to enlarge. Infiniti unveiled its first production hybrid, the M35 Hybrid, at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. The M35 Hybrid uses an original parallel one motor/two clutch hybrid system and features a decoupling 3.5-liter V6 engine; a 50 kW, 270 N·m (199 lb-ft) electric motor integrated into the 7-speed automatic transmission (7AT); and a high-output, fast charge/discharge 1.3 kWh Li-ion battery pack.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

Researchers from Frankfurt University have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to ferment pentose (C 5 ) as well as hexose (C 6 ) sugars derived from biomass feedstock to produce bioethanol and biobutanol. A talk on the work—“Genetic engineering of industrial yeast strains for the production of bioethanol and biobutanol from C5 and C6 sugars,”—by Dr.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. INTRODUCTION. Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. According to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon, if a cap-and-trade system is instituted in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Genencor, a division of Danisco A/S, have established a research collaboration to develop an integrated fermentation, recovery and purification system for producing BioIsoprene from renewable raw materials for use in tires. Genencor intends to commercialize the technology within the next five years. Synthetic rubber is produced on a large scale worldwide to supplement natural rubber, the majority of which is used for tires.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

Google has added biking directions in the US to Google Maps. This has been the most requested addition to Google Maps, according to the company, which unveiled the new feature at the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. This new feature—which is still in Beta—includes: step-by-step bicycling directions; bike trails outlined directly on the map; and a new “Bicycling” layer that indicates bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly roads.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Cutting back on consumption of meat and dairy products will not have a major impact in combating global warming—despite repeated claims that link diets rich in animal products to production of greenhouse gases— according to a report by Dr. Frank Mitloehner, University of California, Davis, presented at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2010

Chemists from Emory University and the Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry have developed a stable and fast homogeneous water oxidation catalyst (WOC), considered a crucial component for generating hydrogen using only water and sunlight, that is easily prepared from readily available salts and oxides of earth abundant elements. A paper on their work was published online 11 March in the journal Science.

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