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Study: EVs cannot succeed without developing parallel supercharging networks

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Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, such as General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. Other automakers are still playing a product game. Tesla has played the platform game. This advantage that Tesla has is not permanent.

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U.S. Battery Makers Power Up

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I wrote a few months ago about the Japanese and European carmakers teaming up with Asian and Euro battery manufacturers with $200-$400 million deals to build large production facilities that will soon be cranking out high volumes of LiIon batteries for plug-in cars. As this article explains, we now have movement toward a domestic supply.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion billion Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the older (1965) High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). Images of GDI injector.

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Using a Diesel-Gasoline Blend to Reduce NOx and Smoke Emissions and Improve High-Efficiency Range of LTC Engine

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Different from prior work, the EGR rate was limited to less than 40% to avoid the production of high concentrations of incomplete combustion products and decreased combustion efficiencies found in previous LTC research. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef100269c. Dong Han, Andrew M. Ickes, Dennis N. Bohac (2010).

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GM's New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fuel for Thought: BP talks down electric vehicles April 27, 2009, 10:28 AM ET GM’s New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt Article Comments (21) Environmental Capital HOME PAGE » Email Printer Friendly Permalink Share: Yahoo! Buzz facebook MySpace LinkedIn Digg del.icio.us automakers bid for survival. .

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One way or another, Fisker Automotive may soon be off the market

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The purchase funds for Fisker would in theory go directly to the DOE since the government agency loaned the auto company a large sum of money before it stopped production more than a year ago. The company lost about $1 billion between 2008 and 2012, according to a Reuters article. Earlier post.)

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GM on the brink…

Revenge of the Electric Car

Here is the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. DETROIT — The rapidly deteriorating finances of General Motors are forcing the federal government to decide whether to bail out the largest American automaker or face the prospect that it might go bankrupt. “I But a bankruptcy by G.M. In July, G.M.

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