Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Volvo had first suggested the 2012 date for a diesel PHEV in September 2009. In a press conference at Paris Motor Show, Stefan Jacoby, President and CEO of Volvo Cars stated that the future for Volvo lies in electric cars. During the press conference in the Volvo stand, Jacoby emphasized the importance of electrification.

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However, the computer-guided parallel parking feature is supposedly not going to be appearing in future models as a way to help the automaker cut production costs. Active Park Assist has been around for over a decade at this point. & “So one example is an auto-park feature that lets the customer parallel park automatically.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

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”. For reference, the fully loaded PRT is approximately 80% the weight of 2009 VW Rabbit. by Bill Cooke. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., Earlier post.)].

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JUNE 19, 2012

KLM is operating the longest biofuel flight undertaken yet as flight KL705 departs from Amsterdam with a Boeing 777-200 and flies to the Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (about 9,500 km or 5,900 miles). SkyNRG is now a world market leader for sustainable kerosene, supplying more than 15 carriers worldwide.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Mercedes-AMG plans to begin production of the SLS AMG E-CELL electric super sportscar ( earlier post ) in 2013, said Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG during the company’s press conference at the North American International Auto Show. inches at the front and 14.17

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Our automotive customers wanted clarity about future plans for the VTES product and a sale to Valeo was the best solution to enable our VTES technology to reach its full potential. It also validates our approach to technology development, which we apply to all our products. —CPT CEO Nick Pascoe“.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It includes a conference room fashioned from a shipping container, and a louvered projection wall showcasing both new and classic Honda product designs and technology. The new Advanced Design Studio is a 6,500-square-foot workspace focused on the theme of mobility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

HySUT was founded in July 2009 with the aim of establishing hydrogen supply infrastructure and to improve hydrogen business environment. HySUT today has 18 companies/associations (including auto industry) carrying on the phase 1 (FY2009-2010) and the phase 2 (FY2011-2015) studies under the name of HySUT.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

In an interview with GCC at the Plug-in 2009 conference last week, Mike Tinskey, global manager of Ford’s sustainability activities focused on electric vehicles, said that Ford is concerned about BYD. “ [They] could take advantage of low-cost. BYD, launched its production plug-in hybrid F3DM last December in China.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2010

The initial phase, starting in 2014, is targeting the production of 75,000 barrels per day. If the extra heavy crude and bitumen is included in the tally, Venezuela’s oil reserves could rival Saudi Arabia’s said RoseAnne Franco, PFC Senior Analyst in a presentation at the ASPO 2009 International Peak Oil Conference in October.

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In 2009 the EPICS program was brought to IEEE by Moshe Kam , an IEEE Fellow and the 2005–2007 vice president of IEEE Educational Activities ; Senior Member Kapil Dandekar ; and Fellow Saurabh Sinha. The celebration kicked off during the IEEE Rising Stars conference, held from 5 to 7 January in Las Vegas.

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“We really appreciate the government’s trust in Toyota products that were chosen as the official vehicles for the G20 Summit. Toyota-Astra Motor claims to be the first automotive APM to present electrified vehicles in Indonesia by bringing in the Toyota Prius Hybrid in 2009 and the Lexus LS600h in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Speaking at the 2009 World Methanol Conference in Miami, Richard J. Addressing methanol marketers at the conference, LeBlanc noted that converting methanol into DME offers the methanol industry a new market for its product. Chemrec is currently building BioDME production plants in Sweden. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Hydrogen Energy California LLC submitted the request for suspension 5 May to allow more time to identify a partner to purchase carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) produced by the plant and negotiate a carbon sequestration agreement, key components of the project’s 2009 revised AFC.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

FEV will also be exhibiting at the conference. Application of this technology in a production vehicle will change the way consumers view Hybrid Electric vehicles. In April 2009, FEV, Inc. Gary Rogers, FEV, Inc. FEV developed this concept to offer a viable solution to the limitations of current Hybrid Vehicle technology.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Usually preferred for high volume production of small cells for reduced cost. To be able to quickly adapt product designs, LoGrasso said, OEMs need a reduction in the wide range of cell formats and sizes. Prismatic can/box cell (Ni plated steel, Al or plastic), with flattened spiral wound or parallel plate electrodes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

Ford presented details of the conversion option, which will become available this fall and enables the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) or propane (LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas), at the annual Ford Fleet Product and Business Conference in Dearborn. liter and 6.8-liter

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The battery pack is expected to be demonstrated in a ReEV concept Dodge Caliber that was shown by FEV at the 2009 SAE World Congress. EIG products have multiple chemistries and integrated electronic battery management systems. is developing a 21 kWh Li-ion battery pack utilizing cells from Korea-based Energy Innovation Group (EIG Ltd.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts on the eve of the North American International Auto Show, announced that GM will produce the Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Detroit News.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

Charles Gassenheimer, Chairman and CEO of Ener1, announced both new customers during the company’s Q2 earnings conference call yesterday. Gassenheimer also said that Ener1 is splitting the company into three product verticals, with profit and loss responsibility: Transportation. million in the second quarter of 2009.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2010

Menahem Anderman of the consulting firm Advanced Automotive Battery (AAB) projects that global EV market share will grow from negligible levels in 2009 to 0.13% of the 2015 new-vehicle market, and up to 0.50% of the 2020 new-vehicle market, which is anticipated at 80 million units annually—i.e., about 400,000 EV units by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

US Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jim Webb (D-VA) introduced “The Clean Energy Act of 2009”, a bill to promote further investment and development of non-fossil-based energy technologies, including nuclear power and other resources. 100 million per year for 10 years toward nuclear education and training. .

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ford of Europe has released the first official images of the all-new Ford C-MAX, which will make its global debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. engine in the concept featured twin independent variable camshaft timing (TI-VCT)—a powertrain system also being used in the production 2.0L

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Court has scheduled a status conference on 22 December for the parties to report on progress towards a resolution and set a deadline of 31 January 2017 for the parties to submit a formal agreement to the Court. Buy back or terminate the leases of approximately 20,000 affected 2009-2012 Model Year Volkswagen and Audi 3.0L

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JUNE 22, 2009

In a paper presented in May at the CS Mantech (Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) conference, Tsutomu Uesugi and Tetsu Kachi from Toyota noted that: performance of the GaN power device has been progressing rapidly. FY 2011: Production of engineering samples.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2009

Jeon Oh, SK Energy’s Leader, Corporate R&D Center/HEV Battery Project, provided an update on the company’s Li-ion automotive battery activities at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 this week in Long Beach. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The report, based on WSD’s independent consultation with steel, aluminum and automotive experts, is formally being presented to steel executives today at the worldsteel Annual Conference in Moscow. Nevertheless, the steel companies are plowing ahead with their exciting new automotive sheet products. —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

In the coming months, Registered Teams will undergo Design Judging based on a Data Submission package, which will provide information on their vehicle’s features, production capability, safety and business plans. The competition start date, the number of venues, and the geographic distribution of venues will be determined prior to July 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Energy & Fuels 2009. George Anitescu from Syracuse presented the work in a poster at the DEER 2009 conference in Dearbon, Michigan. DEER 2009). This allows the use of economical, highly functional mixtures of renewable plant products which are not practical in either conventional spark or compression ignition engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

The heavy-duty line is the first to enter series production. Production of these battery systems, which incorporate A123Systems’ 32113 Li-ion cells, will begin in August 2009 at Magna Steyr’s facility in Graz, Austria. Ah of capacity, and is targeted for mass production start in 2010. Source: Magna Steyr. Earlier post.).

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An active IEEE volunteer, Hodges served in several leadership roles including 2007 vice chair of the IEEE Awards Board and 2011–2012 vice president of the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board. He was largely responsible for moving the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 1978 from Philadelphia to San Francisco.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 28, 2009

Cheers EVADC'rs, PHEV'rs, and EVnthusiasts, One & All - Just a few minutes this sunny & bright Las Vegas day, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 to. Las Vegas EVA Host and LVEVA Webmaster par excellence, Stan Hanel, set up the EV Fiesta and Conference at the Element for LVEVA'rs and public to experience the Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

A lack of microorganisms that will convert both hexoses and pentoses efficiently to ethanol is a constraint to the economical production of cellulosic ethanol by the fermentation pathway. Heterologous expression of this enzyme confers to the yeast cells the ability to metabolize D-xylose and to use it as the sole carbon and energy source.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

Waukesha based Odyne Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of hybrid systems for medium- and heavy-duty work trucks, introduced its new advanced hybrid propulsion system at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference (EUFMC) in Williamsburg. In January 2009, Odyne’s assets were acquired by the parent company of DUECO, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2009

At the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC 2009), Korea-based EIG Ltd. Earlier in June, EIG achieved ISO/TS16949 certification for its design, development and production processes—the first Korean large format Li-ion manufacturer to receive the certification. Rendering of the pack. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

if a current supplier could not meet production volumes—and would reduce risk by more cost-effectively supporting future changes. Dr. Peter Miller, Director of Ricardo’s Electrical/Electronic Engineering efforts, provided an overview of the project at the recent Advanced Automotive Battery Conference 2009 (AABC 2009) in Long Beach.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.

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