article thumbnail

EPA nudges up volume of renewable fuel in final requirements for 2014-2016 under RFS

Green Car Congress

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program today for the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, and final volume requirements for biomass-based diesel for 2014 to 2017. In the original legislation, the volume for 2016 was 4,250 million gallons.

2016 150
article thumbnail

Plus.ai, FAW Jiefang form JV to develop self-driving trucks for China; first production-class L2 semi-autonomous truck

Green Car Congress

The two companies have been working together over the last two years to address the growing demands for trucking in China, where more than 6.1 was founded in 2016 by a group of serial entrepreneurs and industry veterans with more than 20 years of experience in high tech and artificial intelligence.

China 191
article thumbnail

LeMond Carbon obtains independent verification of its carbon fiber rapid oxidation technology

Green Car Congress

The rapid oxidation process enables LeMond to produce carbon fiber with the lowest embodied energy of any standard PAN-based carbon fiber available today. This is a significant milestone for our company. To date, parent LeMond Companies LLC has raised approximately US$18.6

article thumbnail

NTSB investigation of Model 3 fatal crash in March finds Autopilot was active

Green Car Congress

Autopilot also was active at the time of a 2016 fatal crash in Florida involving a semi-trailer and several other serious crashes since that incident. Preliminary vehicle data show that the Tesla was traveling about 68 mph when it struck the semitrailer. —David Friedman, Vice President of Advocacy for Consumer Reports.

Guinea 236
article thumbnail

Hesai unveils ultra-thin LiDAR ET25 that can be placed behind windshield

CN EV Post

At the same time, the design allows the device to clear the view when it is covered with dust, rain or fog with the help of the vehicle's wipers alone, the company said. Among the common solutions available today, NIO and Li Auto both put LiDARs on the roof of the vehicle, but at the expense of aesthetics to some extent.

Chinese 71
article thumbnail

Johnson Controls launching AGM battery line in North America for start-stop applications

Green Car Congress

The company has started producing AGM batteries for the United States at its facility in St. Our estimates suggest that up to 40% of new cars being built the United States by 2016 could be Start-Stop vehicles requiring AGM batteries, in addition to the growing number of conventional vehicles that require a more robust battery.

article thumbnail

NVIDIA unveils single-processor configuration of DRIVE PX 2 for AutoCruise functions; Baidu deploying

Green Car Congress

NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 is powered by the company's newest system-on-a-chip, featuring a GPU based on the NVIDIA Pascal architecture. The new single-processor DRIVE PX 2 will be available to production partners in the fourth quarter of 2016. It supports automotive inputs/outputs, including ethernet, CAN and Flexray.