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AUGUST 25, 2019

Researchers at the University of Delaware have demonstrated a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) prototype with a peak power density of 135 mW cm ?2. The DAFC employs an ammonia-tolerant precious-metal-free cathode catalyst and a high-temperature-stable hydroxide exchange membrane. Their paper is publishedin the journal Joule. The researchers started by analyzing the economics of hydrogen-, nitrogen-, and carbon-based fuels made by carbon-neutral pathways in a post-fossil world in which only water,

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2019

What's the minimum necessary range for an electric car? The world's auto industry seems to have settled on 200-plus miles for North America and 300 kilometers (160 miles) or more for European and Asian markets. The longest-range 2019 Tesla, the Model S Long Range, gets an EPA range rating of 370 miles. So the idea of an electric car with 1,000.

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EV Driver

AUGUST 30, 2019

Planning a road trip is hard work, but adding an EV to the equation can make the process a lot more daunting. Because of the added aspect of having to charge your car to be able to get anywhere, there is a little more rigorous journey planning involved. To give you some tips and tricks, we’ve put together a checklist for you to go through when planning an electric road trip!

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 25, 2019

Guest Post by Sofia Lockhart. Buying a new car is always a significant investment, often involving plenty of research and testing beforehand, and buyers will likely give new, upcoming electric models a similar treatment. Electric cars are still a very recent addition to our roads, but the movement is gaining traction as drivers learn of the many benefits the new technology offers.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Hyundai Motor Group opened Hyundai Hydrogen World—an exhibition hall dedicated to the fuel-cell electric vehicle, related technologies and energy—at the center of the Century Square in Shanghai. The exhibit is open to the public from 26 August through 8 September. The oval-shape arena covering 406 square meters enables visitors to see, experience and understand how the future global hydrogen society can be ushered in by the safe, ecofriendly and efficient energy.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2019

The Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio, in a bid to win over new customers, is waiving the fees for something that could be a real selling point in the increasingly tight Chinese EV market: battery swapping. The company had installed 80 battery swap stations in China in 2018 and now has well over 100 of them. It had planned to install 1,100 of.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Taking your first step into EV ownership can seem a daunting experience whether you are buying new or used

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AUGUST 30, 2019

The “Forze VIII”, a hydrogen fuel cell Le-Mans-style prototype, became the first hydrogen-electric vehicle to beat gasoline-powered cars in an official race. The car, designed, built, tested and raced by a group of students from Delft University of Technology, finished second in the Supercar Challenge at the TT Circuit in Assen, the Netherlands. In a field of 43 gasoline-powered race cars, the hydrogen race car started the last race of the weekend from the fourth position.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2019

Lexus is reportedly working on a new electric model to unveil at the Tokyo motor show in October. The car will be a small city electric car, based on an updated version of the company's 2015 LF-SA concept, according to a report in British car magazine Autocar. Quoting Lexus chief Koji Sato, the report says the car will be a "tall, boxy.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2019

Early data from the government-mandated systems points to a substantial decrease in driver hours-of-service violations.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

It's been a long time coming, but Lexus is set to make a big step towards a production EV when it reveals an EV concept at the Tokyo Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

Researchers at MIT, with a colleague from Tsinghua University, have developed a safety envelope for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles by using a high accuracy finite element model of a pouch cell to produce more than 2,500 simulations and subsequently analyzing the data with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. The safety envelope refers to the the range of mechanical loading conditions ensuring safe operation of battery cells.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2019

Toyota has been one of the most conservative of the world’s major automakers in embracing battery electric vehicle technology. The hesitance is a bit surprising given the automaker’s longtime market lead and bold bet many years ago toward hybrid technology—in its extensive lineup of hybrids. Now the company is aiming to show off.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2019

With technology and infotainment offerings becoming more and more of a deciding factor on what car people opt to drive, we thought it would be a good idea to descend into the mists of time to see where and when some of the most sought after safety, technology entertainment and efficiency innovations made their debut.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Volkswagen has knocked a substantial £2765 from the on-the-road price of its much-lauded e-Golf.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Since 2018, Volkswagen has used only SCR exhaust gas treatment systems with its diesel engines. SCR (selective catalytic reduction) technology significantly reduces nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas. Volkswagen has now developed the next evolutionary stage of its SCR system: “twin dosing”. Adblue is injected selectively upstream of two SCR catalytic converters which are arranged in series.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 28, 2019

Electric-car converts (or shoppers) tend to boast about how fast their EV might be able to charge—in miles (of range) per hour. And while that’s useful for road trips and the occasional unplanned errand, the more important question might be whether an electric car can charge smartly. Reuters has reported on the results of a small study.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 30, 2019

As we wave goodbye to what passed for the British summer and wait with baited breath to see what delights autumn will bring, all thoughts turn to the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show

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Discover EV

AUGUST 28, 2019

Polestar, Volvo's electric performance car brand it is opening a massive new factory for EV production in Chengdu, China

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

Cummins Inc. has entered a multi-year partnership with the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and its battery validation lab to analyze viable business and technical approaches revto reuse and repurpose electric vehicle batteries effectively. Under the agreement, UC San Diego will perform accelerated testing and real-world application testing, and will develop an outdoor second-life demonstration system comprising Cummins battery modules.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 26, 2019

The model that’s leading Volkswagen’s electric-car push—and what Volkswagen has called the replacement for the e-Golf, the city-focused ID 3 hatchback, isn’t coming to America. Instead, the U.S. will be getting the second model, a rugged-themed, somewhat taller crossover hatchback based on the ID Crozz concept from 2017.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 29, 2019

Peugeot have announced the upcoming plug-in hybrid version of their 3008 SUV will offer an official CO2 rating of just 29g/km – placing it in the lowest Benefit-in-Kind tax rate – as well as an astonishing 300hp.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Toyota has showcased some of the weird and wonderful mobility solutions that will be used during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in its capacity as official vehicle supplier.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2019

Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as seeps. There, these hydrocarbons move up from source rocks through fractures and sediments towards the surface, where they leak out of the ground and sustain a diversity of densely populated habitats in the dark ocean. A large part of the hydrocarbons, primarily alkanes, is already degraded before it reaches the sediment surface.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 29, 2019

Tesla has opted to go it alone in some far-reaching and profound ways—like how it sells and services its cars, how it provides charging infrastructure, how it keeps them updated and, well, that every single car the automaker produces is fully electric. And now Tesla is adding another potentially mammoth line of direct-to-consumer services.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2019

The European new car market registered significant growth in July thanks to a significant boost in registrations of electrified models.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Silicon Valley-based battery boffins, TeraWatt Technology, has confirmed that its 'Tera3.0' 4.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

With the market launch of the new BMW X5 xDrive45e ( earlier post ), the drive portfolio of the Sporty Activity Vehicle (SAV) is now being expanded to include a plug-hybrid system. The second-generation of the BMW X5 with electrified drive combines a model-specific in-line 6-cylinder gasoline engine featuring BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology with the latest BMW eDrive technology.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2019

Is it normal to drive an electric car? Is it normal to plug in your cell phone? A new ad campaign from Electrify America says it is. In the face of new surveys that show American carbuyers still voicing the same objections to electric cars that they have for a decade—range anxiety, higher prices, lack of charging stations—Electrify.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 28, 2019

Mercedes have revealed the second generation GLE Coupe, as well as the 435hp mild-hybrid AMG 53, ahead of its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2019

On the eve of its 50 th anniversary earlier this month, Embraer unveiled images of a demonstrator aircraft with 100% electric propulsion technology, which is currently under development in collaboration with WEG. The first flight of the prototype is scheduled for 2020. The electric prototype is based on the EMB-203 Ipanema. The aircraft’s electric motor and controller are being manufactured by WEG at the company’s headquarters in Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, as part of the scientific

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AUGUST 24, 2019

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a competitive grant solicitation for one or more grantees to implement the Clean Mobility in Schools Pilot Project for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19. This solicitation includes an option for new Grant Agreements for fiscal years FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21, if additional funds become available. The current funding available for the FY 2018-19 Clean Mobility in Schools Pilot Program is $10 million.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2019

Researchers in the UK report that, with a bit of management, a largely untended slag heap could absorb significant amounts of CO 2 , partially offsetting the emissions from steel production. Their open-access paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Pullin et al. Steel slag is a by-product of steel making and is produced during the separation of the molten steel from impurities in steel-making furnaces.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

A Stanford-led research team invented a new coating—a multifunctional network material—to stabilize lithium-metal anodes and finally make lightweight lithium-metal batteries safe and long lasting, which could usher in the next-generation of electric vehicles. By integrating dynamic flowability, fast single-ion conduction, and electrolyte-blocking property into a single matrix—the dynamic single-ion-conductive network (DSN)—the researchers achieved long cycle life for a li

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