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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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Polk: 35% of hybrid owners buying hybrids again

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Polk’s assessment of hybrid loyalty by quarter. While the selection of hybrid models in the US has more than doubled since 2007, only 35% of hybrid vehicle owners choose to purchase a hybrid again when returning to market in 2011, according to recent analysis by Polk. Hybrid vehicles represent 2.4%

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Maxwell Technologies to participate in EU ElectroGraph program to investigate use of graphene in supercapacitors; first industrial evaluation of graphene in ultracaps at device level

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Maxwell Technologies, Inc.’s ’s Swiss subsidiary will integrate and evaluate graphene-based electrode material for supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) produced through a European Union (EU)-funded technology development project entitled ElectroGraph. The ElectroGraph project follows a technology-driven approach.

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Honda confirm CR-Z hybrid production

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Honda’s new CEO, Takanobu Ito has today announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sports hybrid model in February 2010. The start date for EU sales of the new hybrid coupe will be released towards the end of 2009. The CR-Z concept vehicle made its world debut at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show in 2007.

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FTA Report on Worldwide H2 Bus Demonstrations Finds Better Than Expected Performance and Strong Customer Acceptance; Challenges Remain

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The US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has published a report summarizing interviews with participants in the hydrogen-powered buses trials underway in more than 20 cities around the world from 2002 to 2007. Fuel cell hybrid buses are deployed in North America, at AC Transit and SunLine in California, and CTTRANSIT in Connecticut.

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High Performance Computing key enabler for accelerating development of high efficiency engines

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DNS is a tool for fundamental studies of the micro-physics of turbulent reacting flows and provides full access to time-resolved fields and physical insight into chemistry turbulence. Achievable advances in engine technology can improve the fuel economy of automobiles by over 50% and trucks by over 30%. Sankaran et al. Opportunities.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. Setting the stage for existing technology. by Bill Cooke. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge.

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