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InterAcademy Council to Conduct Independent Review of the UN IPCC’s Processes and Procedures at Request of United Nations and IPCC
the conclusions from the IPCC’s 2007 report remain entirely valid: The climate is
changing anything, more recent data indicate that the IPCC’s 2007 assessment underestimated
the For the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, 450 scientists from 130
countries The United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of the Panel’s reports on climate change.
Green Car Congress
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Boeing Begins Building Phantom Eye Hydrogen-Powered HALE Demonstrator
In 2007, Boeing announced that, using a Ford Motor Company-developed hydrogen engine, it had successfully tested the hydrogen propulsion system of its High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft. The Boeing Company has begun to build Phantom Eye—its first unmanned, liquid-hydrogen powered, high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) demonstrator aircraft.
The essence of Phantom Eye is its propulsion system.
Green Car Congress
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
RPI Doctoral Student Develops New Graphene Material with 14% Wt. Hydrogen Storage Capacity
The prize, first given in 2007, is awarded annually to a Rensselaer senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways.
Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. The novel form of engineered graphene has exhibited a hydrogen storage capacity of 14% by weight at room temperature,
Green Car Congress
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Toyota Confirms 2009 Model Lithium-Ion Prius -- No Talk of Plug But Promises of More Power
the North American International Auto Show in January, for instance, Toyota (TM ) unveiled the all-new Tundra (see BusinessWeek.com, 01/30/07, "First Drive: 2007 Toyota Tundra") pickup, its biggest truck ever, and the FT-HS, a 400-horsepower concept car that uses the company's hybrid system to help propel it from 0-60 in four seconds. At the Detroit show, Toyota North America chief Jim Press told reporters the company is looking to boost hybrid sales by 50% in 2007, to between 250,000 and 300,000.
To Business Week's March 5 issue has several articles about Toyota. We
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Monday, February 26, 2007
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What up with GM's Plug-in hybrid Volt?
"GM tries to unplug Volt hype" is not the headline I've been hoping to see out of Motor City this spring. But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. The Volt grabbed headlines, lit
Plugs and Cars
- Friday, March 23, 2007
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Plug-in Hybrid Study: Electricity Better
The basic question addressed, which appears on the study homepage (epri-reports.org) is this: How would air quality and greenhouse gas emissions be affected if significant numbers of Americans drove cars that were fueled by the power grid? Simply put, the study found what advocates of electric transportation have long held to be true: as regards greenhouse gases and pollution generally speaking, the worst electricity is still better than petroleum.
Plugs and Cars
- Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Imagine the Volt
Seventeen years ago GM could imagine, and then produce, an electric car. Check out this 13 minute GM video on the car that became the EV1. Commenting on its technological achievements, John Zwerner, GM Advanced Product Engineering, says "we wanted to drive a stake in the ground....as as
Plugs and Cars
- Monday, August 6, 2007
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Promising News from PHEV Startups: Fisker | Visionary Vehicles | Venture Vehicles
newsid=16141&url=s press release http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/09/new-joint-ventu.html mentions another electric transportation project with an unnamed Chinese company. http://www.autoobserver.com/2007/09/fisker-shifting.html provides background on the news.
VISIONARY The three links below cover that, include pointers The news is coming fast and furious on PHEVs....in in
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Friday, September 7, 2007
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Cobasys and A123 Partner on Li-Ion Batteries
Cobasys and A123Systems Partner on Li-Ion Batteries 3 January 2007 Green Car Congress http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/01/cobasys_and_a12.html
Cobasys Cobasys is the battery maker company that emerged from corporate partnerships involving the Ovshinskys' Energy Conversion Devices, GM in the days of Robert Stempel, Chevron, Texaco and ECD Ovonics (it's very complicated and there's a lot of history)! Though some who comment on this story at Green Car Congress show concern about Chevron's role, we hope this agreement will hasten the volume production for
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Wednesday, January 3, 2007
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World's First V2G Demo: Xcel/Hybrids Plus/V2Green/US Lab+Ford Escape Hybrids
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/10/software-startu.html
Software Green Car Congress 5 October 2007 [about V2Green Company]
http://earth2tech.com/2007/09/13/three-thoughts-on-smart-charging-for-plug-in-vehicles/ Three Thoughts on Smart Charging for Plug-In Vehicles Earth2Tech.com clean-tech blog 13 September
This is a long-awaited next step on "Vehicle-To-Grid:" to actually get some V2G-capable cars on the road for testing. It's big news that a demonstration fleet of six Ford Escape Hybrids with the hardware
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Monday, October 22, 2007
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Conversion News: First in Texas in Oct; 1620-Mile PHEV tank; Video/Media
Texas's First Public Conversion of a Plug-In Hybrid: Austin October 20-21, 2007
Sept Sept 26, 2007: The California Cars Initiative (Calcars.org) will sponsor a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) "Conversion Demonstration" in Austin, TX on October 20-21 at the first Maker Faire to be held outside of California. 34; When: October 20-21, 2007 Were: Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm Tickets: Adult $25/Day Here's the press release announcing that CalCars will convert a car in Austin, Texas next month.
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Friday, September 28, 2007
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NYT's Thomas Friedman Proposes "First Energy President"
The New York Times January 5, 2007
The http://select.nytimes.com/2007/01/05/opinion/05friedman.html
Now Last year, influential author ("The World Is Flat"), documentary film-maker ("Addicted to Oil, in which PHEVs are prominent), NYTimes columnist Thomas Friedman proposed http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/266.html an agenda for President Bush's State of the Union address that predicted much of what appeared in the speech and the subsequent Advanced Energy Initiative. Did he influence the policy shapers and speechwriters?
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Friday, January 5, 2007
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EPRI-NRDC Definitive Study: PHEVs Will Reduce Reduce Emissions If Broadly Adopted
They reinforces the Pacific National Lab's January 2007 findings that we won't have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night. July 19, 2007 - The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today released a comprehensive assessment that finds that widespread use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the United States could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and potential for improve ambient air quality.
The We just finished listening to a press conference in Washington, DC, to announce the release of the long-awaited study that finally gives conclusive answers to a big question:
What
CalCars News - PHEV News
- Thursday, July 19, 2007
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