Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (AAM) and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) sent a letter to US House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriators in support of additional funding to complete research into the impacts of mid-level blends of ethanol. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

FAM AUTOMOBILES : a company specialized in electric vehicle (2- and 4-wheel) conception and production. FAM Automobiles is also specialized in other automotive activities: design of new parts, chassis modification, engine improvement, product management for car manufacturers and importers. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

He is a leading voice worldwide on environmental issues as they pertain to alternative fuels and energies. G-Oil is also the official motor oil of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón and the International Motorsports Association (IMSA), the Series’ sanctioning body. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

The draft report of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 shows that in 2008, overall greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions decreased by 2.9% (206.1 Fuel purchased in the US for international aircraft and marine travel accounted for an additional 135.2 Tg CO 2 Eq).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

The product meets European Union regulatory requirements for lower GWP refrigerants for automobile air conditioning systems. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Vehicle Systems. DuPont and Honeywell developed the product jointly but will market and sell it separately.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The Mitsubishi i-MiEV has been awarded the ‘Environment Special Grand Prize’ at the 25th International Automobile Festival held in Paris on February 4, 2010. Tags: Mitsubishi electric car environmental European i miev International Automobile Festival price. As commented [.].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Global cooperation in developing specific requirements, as well as metrics and methodologies to evaluate fuel efficiency, provides needed elements to further improve the environmental performance of our vehicles and increases the efficiency of goods transport. That will serve both our customers and the environment. Globalautoregs.com.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Three organizations representing health, environmental and energy policy interests joined four national trade associations in calling on the US Congress to restore funding for the federal hydrogen and fuel cell research and deployment program to FY 2009 levels. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

“The most significant impact that can be made in reducing CO 2 emissions from automobiles in the coming decades is reducing the average weight and engine size of vehicles.” ” “Corn ethanol is an environmentally friendly fuel.” ” “We should just use fuel cells.” ” Air.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

We feel that this is another step towards greater energy efficiency and environmental sanity in the motor vehicle world. It’s widely understood today that when it comes to automobiles, turbine technology has inherent efficiency advantages over internal combustion engines. Tags: Engines Hybrids Plug-ins. Dror Ben David.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

The study offers two main insights on the nature of clean energy jobs in the automobile sector: First, the paper documents that saving oil will directly create good jobs by driving demand for specific additional manufactured components. Tags: Brief. Driving Growth: How Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Boston-Power is bringing to the transportation industry a game-changing lithium-ion battery that delivers unmatched levels of high energy density, safety, low cost, fast charge and environmental sustainability. Tags: Batteries. We’re thrilled to add him to our team. The company says it has had zero field failures so far.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead. Earlier GCC post.]

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

While espousing the "electrification of the automobile," Waggoner made no firm committment. Unfortunately, our major environmental organizations have made no firm committment, either. He derides automakers for not focusing on more efficient internal combution engines. Tags: environmentalism NRDC UCS.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to begin developing new standards for greenhouse gases and fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for the 2017-2025 model years. A common theme across the.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Technologies to Address Internal Heating in DC Bus Capacitors Capacitors suitable for harsh automotive environments must suffer extreme environmental conditions. Tags: Algae Algal Fuels Fuel Cells Fuels Materials Motors. Film capacitors present an option for use as high voltage bus capacitors. Office of Fossil Energy.

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JUNE 4, 2010

As a result, automobile manufacturers are able to create packages of technologies that can meet cost and effectiveness targets in small, incremental steps. Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery) Engines Fuel Efficiency Hybrids Plug-ins. For example, the report notes the promise of cylinder deactivation, turbocharging and downsizing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

And it directs the Environmental Protection Agency to develop procedures for rating building energy efficiency. The goal of this provision is to preserve the environmental benefits that could be achieved by the three standards, but do so in a way that simplifies compliance by the auto companies. Manufactured Homes.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

Must the battery really be lithium to get this radically different automobile off the drawing board and into the showroom? And is Lutz - purveyer of Hummers and Escalades - suggesting the environmental consequences of nickel mining are so great we must wait for lithium? And there's the rub. Or is lithium the new hydrogen? But hold on.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Last week, the Obama administration announced new fuel economy standards for automobiles that provides some incentives for electric cars. The Bloomberg administration sees electric cars as part of its overall move to create a more environmentally sustainable New York. Would these vehicles truly help to lower carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy: How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets, by Zack Willey and Bill Chameides, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, 2007. Is the CDM Fulfilling its Environmental and Sustainable Development Objectives? Donovan (February 19, 2010). About the Author.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

The Automobile Association has joined an international consortium to support the development of a world-class electric vehicle infrastructure in the North East of England. In a recent AA/Populus survey of 15,000 members 62% said they would consider buying a more environmentally friendly car. Drivers want change.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

By simply adjusting electronics and refining a few internal values (to be on the production version) the NOx reduction is expected to vary from 50% to 94.4% Our corporate goal has always been to deliver technology that provides a positive environmental impact through significantly reduced emissions and improved fuel mileage.&#.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The research, released on Friday by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and named “Estimating US government subsidies to energy sources 2002-2008” , found that fossil fuels benefited from subsidies totalling $72million over this period compared to just $29billion for renewable fuels. Faye Sunderland.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Earlier this month, Green Star Products along with its International Consortium partner Global Green Cars had publicly tested its full electric vehicle version at tracks in Utah and Kentucky. Green Star Products is not in competition with Toyota or any other major automobile manufacturer because it is targeting a different market.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cornell Tweet This Post Tags: BMW , electric vehicles , Fiat , Ford , General Motors , plug-in , Toyota , Volkswagen You might also like: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More The Chinese BYD F3DM, First Mass Produced Electric Car, Fails with Consumers GM Ditches Volt for Geo Metro Hybrid? About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Lotus Engineering, the automotive consultancy division of Lotus Cars Limited, will showcase its latest series hybrid vehicle technology application in the PROTON Concept which will be unveiled at the 80 th International Geneva Motor Show. PROTON, established in 1983, is Malaysia’s largest manufacturer of automobiles and owns Group Lotus.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Lotus Engineering and Harmon International, two heavyweights in their respective industries, have teamed up to create a new technology known as Electronic Sound Synthesis (ESS). Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise. Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MARCH 9, 2021

Would it be wrong if I said that the history of the automobile industry has been divided into two parts, before Tesla and after Tesla , some might argue that I understand? They were only used for internal requirements such as material handling, small scale commutators, distribution of commodities in a small network etc. Tesla Model S.

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Tesla Motors Motor Motors Motoring 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Tim Searchinger, a research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and a fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, is lead author of the “accounting” study. —Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section. Searchinger, Steven P. Kammen, Gene E.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

My Web Technorati Windows Live Blogmarks Propeller Mixx E-mail It To Addresses (up to 3): Your Name: Your Address: Tags: evdriven. . “My guess is that there are more materials like this out there,&# he says. Sign Up for the Green Options Newsletter Follow us on Twitter Subscribe via email Resources Write for Gas 2.0 About Gas 2.0

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

France-based MDI (Moteur Development International), the developer of a compressed air powertrain and several derivative vehicles, officially handed over the keys to two AirPods to KLM earlier in December. Batteries are common and improving almost daily, while the compressed-air cycle has no present role in any popular automobile platform.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. A century after the invention of the automobile, we must re-invent it with powertrains that significantly reduce or eliminate the use of conventional petroleum fuels. The FT-CH concept.

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Prius Toyota Concept Hybrid 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2009

The company is presenting the production i-MiEV as the ultimate eco-car, a solution to the various challenges the automobile faces today including environmental pollution, global warming and the depletion of petroleum-based energy supplies. Mitsubishi Motors Group Environmental Vision 2020 Roadmap. DC/DC converter.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

The competition, conducted by the automotive division of the Society of Plastics Engineers International, honors the most innovative use of plastics in automotive applications. Over the past number of years, the plastic content in automobiles has gone up significantly for a variety of reasons.It’s Environmental.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Doubts PHEVs have environmental benefits. Agrees on environmental and economic benefits, though some presentations backtrack on that; says batteries need further development before commitment to mass-production. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." No known plug-ins being planned or on the road. This is unusual.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Currently there are only about 1,500 500 plug-in hybrids and 500 1,500 pure electric cars, according to Plug-In America.

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