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US Navy-led study of ultracapacitors finds Skeleton outperforms Ioxus, Maxwell, JM Energy for transient load applications

Green Car Congress

Among the new power architectures that hold a great deal of promise are hybrid energy storage modules that integrate energy dense batteries with power dense ultracapacitors (UCs) into a single power supply that augments traditional generation technologies. Within such an architecture, the UC is the element that may be utilized to sink and source power quickly, at the leading or falling edge of a transient event.

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#GreenNewDeal or NO Deal

Creative Greenius

On Friday night, April 26, I had the privilege of hosting a panel on the Green New Deal at Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles. The Theme was “The Path Forward: If Not The Green New Deal, Then What? These are the videos and visuals I curated and screened for the audience as means to tell the story – Why Do We Need A Green New Deal? Here’s what the UN said after their new climate report came out: Let Greta tell you: The usually calm Bill McKibben, the nation’s premier envir

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Busting 7 of the most common myths about electric cars

Green Car Reports

Ah, yes, forwarded emails with subject lines like, “The real story behind …” or “Things you haven’t been told about … ” They can contain much misinformation, and their “facts” can spread at digital speeds. We recently got one from an Australian acquaintance, who helpfully sent it to 70 or so.

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Jump-Charging Dead Golf Cart Batteries

Electric Cars are for Girls

Left golf cart over winter inside heated area. Yamaha 48V charger won’t charge.

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

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Korea Gas Corporation to invest $4B in hydrogen production and distribution by 2030

Green Car Congress

Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS), the state-run natural gas supplier and a major global importer of LNG, plans to spend 4.7 trillion won (US$4.01 billion) to build hydrogen-producing facilities by 2030. Under the plan, KOGAS will construct 25 hydrogen-producing facilities and pipelines totaling 700 kilometers to transport the gas. By 2030, KOGAS expects to supply 1.73 million tons of hydrogen annually.

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New Greenius Comedy One-Act Debuts At Ruskin Group Theatre Starring Mouchette van Helsdingen & Ryan Stiffleman

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IARA 2019 Spring Roundtable

Green Fleet Magazine

The 2019 International Automotive Remarketers Alliance (IARA) Spring Roundtable was co-located with the 2019 Conference of Automotive Remarketing at the Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

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ORNL team runs SMR simulations on Summit with greater than expected efficiency

Green Car Congress

In a step toward advancing small modular nuclear reactor designs, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have run reactor simulations on ORNL supercomputer Summit with greater-than-expected computational efficiency. The team’s experiments tracked 100 billion particle histories—which are collections of unique, individual neutron interactions that occur within a reactor core—on Summit’s GPU-based architecture, taking advantage of the supercomputer’s full capacity.

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If You Were Honest, @LATimes You Would Have Printed Mr. White Privilege From Harvard’s Photo In His Ignorant Plea For More Greed & Injustice. So I Did In Today’s #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

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GM CEO confirms plans to build Chevy or GMC electric pickup truck

Green Car Reports

General Motors CEO Mary Barra confirmed Tuesday in a call with investors what rumors had long predicted: The automaker will build an electric pickup. Barra didn't specify when the pickup would appear, or whether it would be branded as a GMC or Chevrolet. Rumors swirled earlier this year that GM may invest in EV startup Rivian, but that never.

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

Brief

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Los Angeles Has a Green New Deal of Its Own – No ICE Vehicles by 2050

The Truth About Cars

The last decade is littered with announcements from cities, provinces, and states from across the globe, promising to ban internal combustion vehicles by a predetermined date. While the rules and timelines vary quite a bit, the locations are relatively consistent. China and Europe are the most eager to adopt a zero-emission strategy, with California doing […].

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Volkswagen Group of America launches Inclusive Mobility initiative; focus on autonomous and electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA) launched the Inclusive Mobility initiative, an industry-first effort to engage directly with disability groups early in the design of vehicle technologies, user experience and mobility services. Much of the public discussion around automated vehicle technologies has focused on safety, comfort, and convenience.

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El Segundo’s @LATimes Forced To Cover Climate Crisis When Politicians Shove It Up Their To-Do List #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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Audi E-tron electric SUV gets discounts just as it goes on sale

Green Car Reports

Just as the 2019 E-tron SUV starts arriving at dealerships, Audi is already offering big discounts on them. The biggest incentive so far is 1.9 percent financing on the E-tron for up to 66 months, which is significantly cheaper than most other models in Audi's lineup, according to our partners at CarsDirect.com. The similar-sized, gas-powered Q5.

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

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Cummins Reviews Certification of Ram Diesel Engine

Green Fleet Magazine

Cummins Inc. has begun a formal review of its emissions certification and compliance process relating to diesel engines it supplies to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for Ram pickups, the engine-maker has announced.

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Electrified car registrations pass 100K units in Europe for 1st time in March; total reg down 3.6%; Model 3 top EV

Green Car Congress

The European car market registered its seventh consecutive month of decline in March 2019, according to figures from JATO Dynamics. Ongoing political and economic uncertainty, including lack of clarity around Brexit, alongside consumer preoccupation with diesel bans in cities, meant that overall demand continued to decline. Last month, 19 of the 27 markets posted negative results—including the top 10 largest markets in Europe.

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@LaTimes Greenwashes Climate Crisis & Threat To Readers By Claiming Surrender Is “War On Climate” As Los Angelenos Choke On Nation’s Worst Air Pollution #JoeTakesOnTheNews

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New York to add solar to transportation hubs

Green Car Reports

Electric cars and public transportation go together in more ways than one. In the latest example, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to add solar panels to the rooftops of its rail yards and bus depots to help feed the local power grid. READ MORE: Forget light poles, British firm to build chargers from cable boxes The MTA.

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Midsize Pickup Ownership Costs Rated by Vincentric

Green Fleet Magazine

Midsize pickups are providing financial appeal with their lower acquisition cost, more favorable fuel consumption, and maintenance costs that won't break fleet budgets.

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Bosch partners with Powercell on development and large-scale production of fuel cells for trucks and cars

Green Car Congress

Bosch has formed an alliance with Powercell Sweden AB, the Swedish manufacturer of fuel-cell stacks. Under the agreement, the two partners will work jointly to make the polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell ready for production. Bosch will then manufacture this technology under license for the global automotive market. The stack will complement the Bosch portfolio of fuel-cell components, and is to be launched in 2022 at the latest.

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Driving an electric vehicle can help curb climate change

Discover EV

Can driving an electric vehicle can help curb climate change, Discover EV explores the subject.

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When will it be socially unacceptable to drive a car with a tailpipe? Twitter poll results

Green Car Reports

At Green Car Reports, we've developed something of a tradition for Earth Day. Back in 2014, we formulated the question: "When will we start to see tailpipes on cars as morally wrong?" The question came originally from a friend who works in advocacy in public health, who likened CO2 emissions from tailpipes to smoking cigarettes, which has now been.

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Women in Fleet: Utilimaster's Costello

Green Fleet Magazine

Driven by a desire for continuous change and continuous improvement, Costello is a driving force in the fleet industry today.

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Porsche launches two new cogen plants running on biogas in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen

Green Car Congress

Porsche has launched two new cogeneration plants in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen to enhance its environmentally friendly energy mix and close the remaining gap to CO 2 neutral production of the fully electric Taycan in Zuffenhausen. The heat and power plants, each of which has an output of around two megawatts, run exclusively on biogas and residual products produced from organic waste.

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Spot the difference: Mercedes A-Class Saloon vs CLA-Class

Green Cars News

Mercedes-Benz’ ability to successfully identify a niche is something we’ve touched on before

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2020 BMW 7-Series plug-in hybrid rated just 16 electric miles

Green Car Reports

Although the gigantic new twin-kidney grille might be the most eye-catching addition to BMW’s flagship luxury sedan, the 7-Series, the model in the lineup that’s gone through the most change might well be the one with a charge port: the 745e xDrive plug-in hybrid. The 2020 BMW 745e xDrive iPerformance can go 16 all-electric miles.

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7 Ways to Stay Safe on Motor Patrol

Green Fleet Magazine

Arm yourself with the tools and tactics to be at the top of your game while riding your motorcycle on duty.

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Graphene oxide aerogel helps lithium-sulfur batteries reach new potential

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a free-standing reduced graphene oxide (r-GO) aerogel for use as a supporting electrode for the electrochemical redox reaction of sulfur in a catholyte-based lithium-sulfur battery. A mesoporous matrix is formed by a layers of r-GO, providing sites for electrochemical reactions and a highly conducting pathway for electrons.

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Lamborghini goes electric

Discover EV

The LB48H – a working title, of course – is set to replace the Aventador in 2020.

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2020 Toyota Prius Prime gains seating for 5, Apple CarPlay, revamped lineup

Green Car Reports

The 2020 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid gains some important functionality, even though some of the key specifications for range and efficiency haven't changed. The most important improvement, perhaps, is that the Prime now offers a third seat in the center-rear, making it a five-passenger car. Previous versions had only four seats. The second.

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2019 Range Rover gets mild hybrid tech option

Green Cars News

Range Rover’s flagship SUV has been updated for 2019, and can now be ordered with a new 3.0-litre straight-six mild hybrid petrol engine.

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Lightning Systems debuts new all-electric Ford F-59 Model, electrifying delivery vans and food trucks

Green Car Congress

Lightning Systems, a global developer of zero-emission drivetrains for commercial fleets, announced new battery-electric powertrain options for the Ford F-59 Model to support its customers with delivery and food truck applications. The new Lightning Electric powertrain for the Ford F-59 chassis is available for all F-59 variants, which range from 16,000 to 22,000-pound gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) configurations.

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Geeley launch all-electric car brand

Discover EV

Geeley Auto Group has launched Geometry, a new global all-electric vehicle brand

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How the 2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid 3-row crossover gets compact-car economy

Green Car Reports

When the 2020 Toyota Highlander Hybrid goes on sale next year, its EPA fuel-economy estimates may match most versions of the Corolla compact sedan. And it has room for eight passengers. To figure out just how Toyota eked out a manufacturer-estimated 34 mpg combined (an EPA number anticipated but not yet confirmed by the agency), Green Car Reports.