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BMW H2 BS

Plugs and Cars

Terry Tamminen, Arnold's green guru, showed up at the Santa Monica AltCar Show in a BMW Hydrogen 7. But of course he's been hydrogen's biggest booster, despite its inefficiencies and impracticalities. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

Green Car Congress

Major liquid fuel classes represented in the library include hydrogen; n-alkanes; iso-alkanes; 1-ring aromatics; 2-ring aromatics; cycloalkanes/naphthenes; olefins; oxygenated fuels; and soot precursors and emissions pathways. The MFC applied this concept of surrogate fuels to develop both fossil-based and bio-based fuel models.

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EPA and NHTSA Issue Notice of Intent to Develop New Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy Standards for Light-Duty Vehicle Model Years 2017-2025; Proposal Expected by 30 Sep 2011

Green Car Congress

The agencies and ARB considered technologies that are readily available today as well as technologies that may not currently be in production but are beyond the research phase and under development and which are expected to be in production in the MYs 2017-2025 timeframe. hybrid/vehicle electrification technologies. up to 6% per year.