Sat.Oct 27, 2018 - Fri.Nov 02, 2018

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Kia and Hyundai to introduce solar roof charging on selected vehicles: HEV, BEV and ICE

Green Car Congress

Kia Motors and Hyundai Motor plan to introduce solar roof charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. Electricity-generating solar panels will be incorporated into the roof or the hood of vehicles, and will support internal combustion, hybrid and battery electric vehicles with additional electrical power, increasing fuel efficiency and range.

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Chevy eCOPO Camaro hints at 800-volt charging

Green Car Reports

Chevrolet can't let Teslas win all the electric drag races. Monday night at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers' Association gathering in Las Vegas, Chevrolet revealed an electric concept version of its drag-race focused COPO Camaro. The company says the eCOPO Camaro should be able to cover the standing quarter mile in about 9 seconds with more.

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@DrPatSoonShiong – When Are YOU and @LATimes Going To Wake Up & Smell The Climate Emergency Burning? #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Western Australia’s South West | Day 918 – 925

Plug Me In

In the South West I was hosted by some nice people who took me for prospecting, gave the Blue Bandit […]. The post Western Australia’s South West | Day 918 – 925 appeared first on Plug Me In.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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The ICCT: Nearly half of the world’s EVs are in 25 cities; China leads the way

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Nearly half of the world’s electric vehicles are in 25 cities, according to a new briefing by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). As of the end of 2017, these 25 cities were home to nearly 1.4 million of the world’s 3.1 million passenger electric vehicles. These 25 cities, representing just 12% of world passenger vehicle sales, account for 44% of the world’s cumulative electric vehicle sales through 2017.

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Hyundai and Kia reveal solar roof tech for electric cars—or gasoline ones

Green Car Reports

As solar cells get more efficient, powerful panels can fit on smaller areas. For those looking to use renewable energy for transportation, that means solar panels can now move from home rooftops used to power car chargers to cars themselves. In Korea on Wednesday, Hyundai and Kia revealed some production-bound examples of that.

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Maintenance Costs Increase as Labor Rates Rise

Green Fleet Magazine

Despite high build quality, vehicle maintenance costs are trending up due to increased advanced technology content, skilled labor shortages, higher tire prices, and more engines requiring synthetic oils and high-capacity oil pans.

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Georgia Tech team develops high-performance intermediate-temperature sold-oxide fuel cell

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A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 vol% H 2 O) methane at 500 °C, demonstrating a peak power density of 0.37 W cm ?2 while maintaining excellent durability (no evidence of coking after ~550 h of continuous operation).

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Austria to let drivers of electric cars go faster

Green Car Reports

Austria is offering would-be electric-car owners (and current ones) a tempting incentive to go tailpipe-emissions-free: permission to drive faster than those with gasoline, diesel, or hybrid vehicles. Under a recently approved amendment to the country’s speed limits, aimed at rewarding those who choose electric vehicles, they will be given a.

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@LATimes Isn’t This The Same Way Boston Has Always Acted Out Against Integrated Bussing?#joetakesonthenews

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

Brief

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Protean Electric gaining traction in U.S., China with in-wheel motors — finally

China EV

The proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I think it applies to Protean Electric’s current situation. I’ve been writing about Protean since 2012. The “start-up” is still chugging along, still working to get automakers to give its in-wheel electric motors a try. “We have found it is very difficult to convince OEMS to use our motor,” Protean CEO KY Chan told me recently.

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Ford and Baidu announce joint autonomous vehicle testing in Beijing with SAE L4 vehicles; Apollo system

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company and Baidu, Inc. have begun a two-year joint autonomous vehicle test project, under which the two companies will further advance the development and on-road testing of autonomous vehicles in China. The Baidu-Ford L4 Autonomous Vehicle Test Project is a two-year initiative, with on-road testing slated to begin by the end of this year.

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Sources: GM manufacturing revamp could signal faster lane-change to EVs

Green Car Reports

Less than a week after speaking out in favor of a national electric vehicle mandate, and in the shadow of Tesla reporting a profitable quarter, General Motors might be on the verge of announcing a radical change to its plans for future electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the U.S. The automaker is anticipated to make a major business.

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“City Of Angels,” My Ass! It’s The City Of “Screw You” If You’re Homeless. Just Ask @LATSteveLopez #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

Oil

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Would you allow someone to pay to park on your drive and charge their car?

Green Cars News

The government recently announced it would be reducing its grant for electric vehicles from £4,500 to £3,500

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ORNL study finds connected and automated vehicles can reduce fuel use by more than 40%

Green Car Congress

To study the potential benefits of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a simulation framework that analyzes the impact of partial market penetration of CAVs on fuel consumption, travel time and traffic flow in a merging on-ramp scenario under low, medium and heavy traffic volumes. In a study published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles , they reported that an increased number of CAVs communicating and coordinating driving acti

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New report shows oceans warming much faster than anticipated

Green Car Reports

A new study published Wednesday in the journal "Nature" shows global warming has already accelerated far beyond what scientists anticipated. The study uses new methods to measure global ocean temperatures, which showed the oceans have retained 60 percent more heat than earlier estimates showed. Scientists measured the volume of oxygen and carbon.

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@LATimes Reveals Dems Now The Choice Of Exxon, Monsanto, Wells Fargo & Blackwater. Will Continue Business As Usual #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Top five tips for de-icing your car

Green Cars News

The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in, and as we head in to the long winter months things are starting to freeze over – including your car

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Monash University, Toyota Research Institute team develop family of borane-based ionic liquids for advanced battery electrolytes

Green Car Congress

A team from Monash University, a leading university in Australia, and the Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D (TMNA) based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, reports a novel family of closo-boron-cluster based room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Their very low glass transition temperatures, high cathodic and anodic stabilities and compatibility with Li and Mg metals make them excellent candidates as electrolytes for rechargeable batteries and hy

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Fisker gets Caterpillar investment for solid-state battery tech

Green Car Reports

Henrik Fisker has been sketching out big plans—well beyond cars—for the solid-state battery technology being developed by a Fisker Inc. team. And now it appears that the heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar has given it some vote of confidence. On Oct. 22, both companies announced that a Caterpillar-owned venture group invested in the.

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A Clear & Present Danger – If We Don’t Stand Up And Stop Evil In Its Tracks It Will Stomp Good People Under Its Jack Boots #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio now available to order

Green Cars News

Setting a new benchmark in the premium SUV segment with its combination of awe-inspiring design, performance and technology, the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio is now available to lease.

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Chevrolet electric Camaro concept drag racer: eCOPO with 800V battery pack; electric crate motors

Green Car Congress

Fifty years after the original COPO Camaro special order performance models were introduced, Chevrolet’s eCOPO Camaro Concept is demonstrating an electrified vision for drag racing. Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque.

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BMW readies battery factory for wave of coming electric vehicles

Green Car Reports

BMW announced last month it will significantly expand and overhaul a facility to produce batteries for electric cars at its factory in Dingolfing, Germany. The factory currently builds several BMW sedans and coupes, including plug-in versions of the 5- and 7-Series. The new battery assembly line in the factory will cover 65,000 square feet in the.

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@LATimes Buries The Lead Again #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Cupra Ateca: prices revealed for 296bhp SUV

Green Cars News

Cupra, the newly introduced performance sub-brand of Seat, has revealed the Cupra Ateca will cost from £35,900 when it hits showrooms in December.

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Euglena completes demo-scale algae biorefinery for renewable jet and diesel

Green Car Congress

Japan-based biotechnology company euglena ( earlier post ) has completed the construction of its demonstration-scale biorefinery in Yokohama for the production of renewable jet and diesel fuels from algae and waste oil. The plant , which will use the Biofuels ISOCONVERSION process ( earlier post ) licensed by Chevron Lummus Global / ARA, will have a production capacity of 5 barrels per day, with planned initial planned production volume of 125 kiloliters per year (786 barrels). euglena is partne

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Recall alert: Hyundai Ioniq in the hot seat

Green Car Reports

Hyundai is recalling 10,575 Ioniq Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models from 2017 and 2018 to replace a wiring relay in the drive system. The recall mirrors a similar problem announced last month with the Ioniq's platform-mate, the Kia Niro, which was also recalled. Bad connections in a drive-system relay can cause the relay to overheat and lead to a.

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@LATimes See How Much Better The Headline Is When You Tell The Rest Of The Story? Paul Harvey Would Approve #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Tesla Releases New Autopilot “Navigate” Feature

Cars That Think

But it still merely suggests lane changes; the driver must make the final call.

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Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

Green Car Congress

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report —“Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration”—calls for the launch of a substantial research initiative to advance these technologies as soon as possible.

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VW may share electric-car platform with Ford

Green Car Reports

Volkswagen is investing $40 billion in new electric cars and plans to have 27 new models on the market by 2022. Ford announced last March that it will invest $11 billion in developing hybrid systems for all but one of its new pickup and SUV models due out by 2020. The company also said at an event in March that it will produce six new battery.

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2019 BMW 8 Series Convertible revealed

Green Cars News

The BMW 8 Series Convertible has been revealed ahead of a full reveal at the Los Angeles Motor Show later this month.

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